500px Launches Redesigned Portfolios

We’re excited to announce that our completely redesigned Photo Portfolios are now available for all 500px members today. With 500px serving over a billion page views per month, 500px Portfolios give photographers an opportunity to get discovered and showcase their work to a large, global audience that’s passionate about the highest quality photos: the 500px community.

For the past several weeks, we’ve had over 1000 users beta testing the features and we’ve incorporated their feedback into the product. The overwhelming response is that the new Portfolio has exceeded their expectations.

We want to thank the members of our community who participated in the beta version and shared their thoughts and ideas. You helped us refine our UX and take it to the next level!

Stellar Community Reviews

"One of the first things I noticed is how beautiful it is," says photographer, author and digital media expert Scott Bourne. "I set up and customized my site effortlessly. The Portfolio redesign really makes your photos pop."

"Being able to completely personalize 500px Portfolios is an outstanding new feature,” says photographer and author Nicole S. Young. “I'm really excited about the direction 500px is headed.”

"The best just keeps getting better,” says photographer and Education Director for NAPP Matt Kloskowski. “500px's new Portfolios have taken an insanely inspirational website and made it a one-stop shop for finding, sharing and showing off beautiful photos."

New Features

The Portfolio redesign is based on three principles: It’s Easy to Use, Beautiful and Unique.

Photographers can now create a custom personal website on 500px with its own URL, tabs, pages and zero maintenance or incremental hosting fees. They can express their vision and style by:

1. Setting up and customizing their Portfolio page in just a few minutes, seamlessly updating their photo collection as it grows.
2. Showcasing photos in beautiful, minimal layouts with many options for sharing and interaction.
3. Developing their own look and feel to the page design and access to additional features, such as complete CSS customization (for the brave).

We’re also increasing upload capacity for all accounts. Free accounts will now be able to upload 20 photos per week, while Plus and Awesome accounts will accept larger size of photos, up to 100Mb per file, and as always have unlimited uploads.

Over the next couple of months, we’re rolling out even more features including custom pages, full integration for Stores/ecommerce, blogs and localization.

This is the beginning of the next phase of our platform. 500px is rolling out a lot of new features over the next few months and continually working towards being the best place to get photos and photographers discovered. We have some exciting products in the pipeline.

Questions Answered Live

For more information about Portfolios and how photographers can get the most out of its features, take a look at the Google+ Hangout video Q&A 500px developers held with users.

Need help with new portfolios? We're here to assist, email help@500px.com.

Thank you & we hope you'll love your new portfolio!

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Meet Nina and her magical clicks that take your mind off the everyday and into the realm of extraordinary. Nina takes the camera with her everywhere, photographing along the way the things that inspire her — be it some little things or memories from her travels. Warm light, blur and film-like colours of her images will leave you with an ambiance of happiness. Enjoy!

Say “Hi!” to Nina and add her to friends, just visit her 500px page, there you can see her full body of work and follow future uploads.

Our blog is a place to promote 500px photographers and their brilliant photos. Every week we want to introduce you to new and up and coming photographers, whom you may have not discovered yet. If you’d like to be featured on our blog or nominate your favourite photographer leave a comment below or email blog@500px.com.

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Have New Portfolios questions?

Tune in LIVE today at 3PM EST for a Google hangout discussion with 500px. We'll be there to answer your questions about the new portfolios. Get an early start and ask your questions now on twitter, G+ and our other social networks.

To attend the hangout visit http://bit.ly/19hlYAl

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Want to get featured on our blog? Every Monday a theme is announced and you have until Sunday to submit your entry. You may already have a photo that suits or you can see it as a weekly photo challenge. For announced theme, deadline and how to enter continue reading.

Polka Dots

Last week we announced “Polka Dots” theme and received a great number of fun and creative entries. We have selected twelve photos to share with you today, these are thumbnails so make sure to click on each for a full size photograph. Take a look at all the contestants here & pick your favourite.

New theme: Sunshine

1. Select photo that fits this theme. Upload image to your 500px profile or pick an existing photo.
2. Add a tag "sun500px".
3. You are done. To track all entries click here.

Theme is open to your interpretation and creativity, so get snapping and tagging. Deadline is May 19th at 12pm (EST). To make your efforts worthwhile there’s a random draw giveaway for all who enter for a chance to win 2 months of Awesome membership. Lucky draw winner is Martina Johansson.

Good luck this week!

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Fall in love with inspiring photography! We’ve been watching photos uploaded to 500px.com and have chosen some of our favourite images to share with you today. Since we missed a feature this post includes photos from both weeks. Enjoy and remember to upload your photos this week, we love to see all the creativity and talent that you bring to our community :)

Thanks!

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