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500px for iOS Updated with New Edge-to-Edge Design, Inline Swipe Gestures

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Photo sharing service 500px has released a significant update to its iOS app, which includes features such as a new edge-to-edge design for full resolution photos as well as new swipe gestures for inline "Like" and "Reply" actions. The iPad version of the app now also displays an improved photo details drawer showing user interaction such as likes and favorites, and a refined Flow interface featuring user avatars and activity.

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We've made 500px for iOS an even better way to find your inspiration and to show off your best work. With an all-new visual design, the world's best photography fills every screen from edge to edge, making 500px feel right at home in iOS.
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500px's iOS app was the subject of controversy earlier this year after it was pulled for containing questionable content in the form of nude photos, but the app returned a week later after fixing the issue. 500px last saw a major update this past April, which brought performance enhancements and features such as the Flow interface for the iPad.

500px can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

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Corrode said:
Does anyone actually use this instead of Instagram? I'm genuinely curious.
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No .

Generally Instagram is associated with family/friends/phone photos, Flickr is for almost everything but mainly low end dslr pics, and 500px is for top quality professional grade pictures.
 
Corrode said:
Does anyone actually use this instead of Instagram? I'm genuinely curious.
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They are extremely different. Yes, I use 500px for all of my "good" (the photos I like the most) photos and I like to browse it for all the professional grade photos that are shared on it
 
500px seems to have a lot of amazing photos. But unlike Flickr or Interfacelift or WallpapersWide you have to pay to download the pictures. The others are free. Just choose the resolution you want.
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
500px seems to have a lot of amazing photos. But unlike Flickr or Interfacelift or WallpapersWide you have to pay to download the pictures. The others are free. Just choose the resolution you want.
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Well yeah, because they're not the same thing. 500px is a photo-sharing community for actual photographers, not a wallpaper download website.
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
500px seems to have a lot of amazing photos. But unlike Flickr or Interfacelift or WallpapersWide you have to pay to download the pictures. The others are free. Just choose the resolution you want.
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500px is not a site for wallpapers. Jesus!:eek:
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
Well it should be. Many of those pics would be awesome as desktop or iPhone wallpaper.
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Well yeah, they would, because 500px is home to tons of great photographers. But it shouldn't surprise you that these great photographers aren't in the business of giving up all the rights to their hard work for free. Many of these make their livings off of photography, and selling prints/photo rights is one of the main parts of that. Why would we give our intellectual property and hard work away for free?

That's the main reason why many of us photographers use 500px in the first place. They're one of the better photo sharing communities as far as photographers rights goes. That's why you see so much phenomenal work on there compared to places like Flickr where everyone just uploads their random snapshots. Photographers love to share their work, but they want to retain their rights over their photos and don't want to lose control over what happens with it. 500px gives them the option to sell their photos if they want (whether canvas fine art prints or digital downloads for wallpaper), but they don't have to if they don't want to.
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
Well it should be. Many of those pics would be awesome as desktop or iPhone wallpaper.
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Well there is always CMD-SHIFT-3. (Or home-sleep button on iOS.) But in all seriousness, as others have mentioned 500px is a photo sharing site with professional photographers as their target market, although many if not most of the users are obviously not pro's. (Myself included.) Flickr is a similar service, but aimed at both pro's and general use. I tend to use Flickr more because there are a lot of photos that I want to share with people that I would not consider to be portfolio material, which is what 500px is intended for.

So, for example, if I take a bunch of photos at the local balloon festival, I might upload that gallery to Flickr. Or a batch of storm photos, etc. Flickr also has a lot of community groups that cover everything from cosplay photos to airships. And Flickr has the ability to have group discussions, which 500px lacks.

So each has its own use, with a lot of crossover features.
 
Design is terrible, inconsistent and looks outdated.

The content looks cluttered, transparency is not used correctly, buttons sometimes are line-based or silhouette-based, all in all making it a not useful design. The redesign solve nothing.
 
The app is ok. I personally like colorbay.me

It's a pretty beautiful app and connects 500 px Flickr Instagram all in one

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TheGenerous said:
Design is terrible, inconsistent and looks outdated.

The content looks cluttered, transparency is not used correctly, buttons sometimes are line-based or silhouette-based, all in all making it a not useful design. The redesign solve nothing.
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Try out colorbay
 
1) Twitter login crashes the app on iOS7
2) This updated app is still using the iOS6 keyboard. lol.
 
ayale99 said:
1) Twitter login crashes the app on iOS7
2) This updated app is still using the iOS6 keyboard. lol.
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Be kind with them ... They had a lot of work lately opening two new MacRumors pseudo accounts to promote their own app here in this thread.
 
agalaria said:
If you are talking about the app Colorbay. Then right now its available only for iPad.
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No the iPhone app, I installed it but can't log in using it.

Edited - with a clear head this morning I worked it out, it kept telling me to change a setting but I was looking in the wrong place, not in Settings on my iPhone.
 
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I like the app but there are pictures with HDR abuse that are just wrong.
Worst thing is that reviewers go "beautiful!!!/awesome!!!/colorful!!!/I love the dramatic intense colors!!!"
It is what sells nowadays.
 
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