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PhotoCrowd’s New User Profile Layout is Gorgeous

Chris Gampat
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01/12/2016
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Last Updated on 01/12/2016 by Chris Gampat

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PhotoCrowd still doesn’t have the age of 500px or Flickr, but it’s shaping up to be quite a new and beautiful spot for folks to show off their images. Besides the contests that they offer, PhotoCrowd recently announced a revamped user profile system that displays all the info you basically need and your images in a very clean yet beautiful way. Of course, good photography also helps to make for a good looking profile.

But because of the nature of the contests, folks who display images there usually end up putting out just their A game stuff anyway. In some ways, it’s a welcome alternative that is similar to EyeEm.

If you were one of the first people to use 500px, you can see that the best photos really are a lot like what the older community used to be minus the loads and loads of nudes from Russian photographers. So to that end, if you’re looking for a new and still growing community; this may be the one for you.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.