Features

  • Download pictures that match specified keywords
  • Create folders on your drive for each SmugMug album
  • An included utility, MakeAlbumList, can be used to create lists of albums for use with CLDownload. MakeAlbumList also utilizes keywords.
  • Can optionally convert pngs to jpegs
  • Download videos (mp4, mpg)
  • Resize and/or compress during the download process
  • Can skip the download if the picture already exists on the hard drive
  • Can rotate and/or maximize the x, y, dimensions to best fit your application. This feature is especially useful when the destination for the pictures is an iPad that is "orientation aware" or a simple phone that is not.
  • Preserves the Exif information found on the SmugMug Original (use /size=O)
  • Populates the resulting jpgs metadata; Title, Subject, and Tags from the SmugMug images Caption, Category/Album Name, and Keywords metadata.


  • The tag metadata is especially useful when using Vista or Windows 7 as the tags can be used, with Windows Explorer, for searching or filtering.