Originally posted by JSPHOTOS I think I figured out how it's happening. Last night I was on 500px and noticed the "Download" button on our photos. Click that and it provides the photo with credits from 500px / copyright info applied. I searched the settings trying to find a way to disable "Download" but didn't see it. If you find a solution other than disabling the "Store" please let me know. I'm surprised 500px is allowing that type of sharing / access without the photographer's permission. I guess when you sign up for an account it's hidden in their TOS / Privacy Policy.
Jim
I looked at my photos on 500px from a different account and noticed the download button. I emailed 500px about it and this was the response I got:
"The Download button is actually a "purchase" button. If you try clicking it, you'll notice the next step is to pay for the photo. We've found in testing that sales increase when we use the term "Download" instead of "Purchase".
If you'd rather not have your photos for sale at all, and there be no "Download" button on them, you can disable your Store at
https://500px.com/settings/store/settings.
Cheers,
Alex
Manager, Customer Excellence
500px"
Bit of an odd one that. Why do they think that people hoping to get it for free will suddenly stump up $50 to download it? They'll just go back and right click.
I'm trying to find routes to sell photos and need to work harder at it as in spite of one of my photos being viewed 141,000 times and liked 5,000 times on Facebook with a link to print sales, not one has been purchased. That kind of shows you the balance of how many people are prepared to pay for things they like.
I did try to start up a website a year ago, but am hopeless at technical things where computers are concerned so might've to look into getting someone set it up for me...