9 Years Ago

Instaprints, 500px Or Pixels.com

Hello, I am a hobbyist photographer and new here! After I read discussion on "difference between FAA and Instaprints", I decided to join FAA. However, I do have several good photos taken by iPhone and would like to try to sell them. Now, if i try to download iphone photos to sell on FAA, it doesn't download right and it only gives option to sell greeting cards due to sizing, which is okay and I understand. So I thought iPhone photos could be sold by Instaprints or 500px. Then i just saw a new iPad app for Pixels.com. I also read "licensing for commercial use for 500px" and found out some of the members mentioning 500px crop the picture wrong and so forth. Not to mention, they have a higher membership fee and I am not really leaning towards that. But I am interested to see what you all think about which one is the best site to sell iPhone photos. Any advise will be greatly appreciated!

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Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

The reason you can only sell greeting cards here is because the size of the "photograph" coming out of you iPhone is only big enough for greeting cards. I'm not sure where I'd suggest you sell iPhone photos, if at all.

I'm surprised this is even big enough for a greeting card. Next question: who are you hoping to market this to?

Dan Turner

9 Years Ago

-- iphone 4 = 2592px x 1936px resolution, big enough for a 25"x19" print.
-- iphone 5 = 3264px � 2448px, big enough for a 32"x24" print.

Fumie's photo appears to be cropped.

Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

Fumie Harrington

9 Years Ago

Thank you for your reply! Hmm, I guess photos taken by iPhone doesn't have good resolution not worthy to sell??

Sorry I am just a starter...

Fumie Harrington

9 Years Ago

@Dan

You are right! I downloaded this photo just to see how it works, but glad to know I should be able to still print 25 x 19. Thank you!

Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

I was pretty sure iPhones *can* be printed bigger than a greeting card, but somewhere along the way, this photo became much smaller. Either you cropped as Dan suggested or your settings in your phone have been set wrong. Keep in mind that almost all digital photos, whether from a DLSR, point and shoot camera or an iPhone will need some kind of processing after it has been made. And just because a photo comes out of the camera or phone at a certain size does not mean that should be the size it gets uploaded to a web site as. I know we'll have ten people here saying they upload iPhone photos all the time that sell and I guess someday someone will win a race driving a Chevette.

Fumie Harrington

9 Years Ago

I guess Instaprints was created for Instagram photos mostly taken via phone.

Also, I realized I can log into Pixels.com with FAA log in info. If i have FAA annual membership, my photos that I download to my website automatically synchronizes with Instaprints as well...

Dan Turner

9 Years Ago

Joseph, people buy iphone photos all the time. Big ones. There are websites and international contests devoted to iphone photography. It's a "thing." And many of the photos are fairly mind-blowing.

The tool is more than capable.

Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

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