What image dimensions are used for 500px?

Question

The name is 500px.com, but what is the image resolution for which to optimize before uploading your photos there?

Asked by Marius Butuc

Answer

From their relevant Support page: width 880px for photos in landscape orientation, height 900px for images in portrait orientation. Even when you submit your images in that size, they will still get resized for display in thumbnails, and on iOS devices. Oh, and your carefully prepared originals in correct size are still recompressed into smaller files.

The name is a leftover from early days of digital photography, when 500 pixels was a suitable size for longer edge of images distributed over slower-than-today connections and displayed on CRT monitors.

Answered by Imre

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