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$13
per month
Pixabay
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Pixabay headquartered in Germany offers a digital content platform, which they present as a community for sharing copyright-free images and videos. All contents are released under Creative Commons.
Picsart is well suited for quick online photo and video creation and editing. It has a lot of templates that can be used to quickly create collages and other artwork for professional use. The video editing tool is really useful for adding sound and text to videos and creating annotated videos for presentations. It is less appropriate for professional photo and video editors, as it lacks advanced editing tools. Graphics designers and other professionals in the photo editing or video editing industry might find this product underpowered.
Pixabay is excellent for those trying to create content on a budget, whether for yourself or for a client. It has a huge library of high-quality images and videos for use in creative applications. Beyond that, Pixabay also has a library of free music and sound effects, which is enormously helpful for people trying to create content on a budget without worrying about getting in copyright trouble. Also, due to the fact that you can sort images by "transparent," it's easy to find cut-out images to use in composites.
Pixabay License: Pixabay has its own license which allows the use of the content for commercial and personal use without any attribution. However, attribution supports the talented creators behind the content.
Pricing: Pixabay is completely free for everyone.
High-resolution: Photos and videos on Pixabay are of high resolution, especially several videos in 4K, which makes them perfect to use in bigger projects.
There are a lot of features available to only paying subscribers, but all those features still appear for the nonpaying user, marked by the crown icon. Particularly with filters and stickers, it can be annoying to scroll through the majority of locked options to find the handful that is free. A filter option would be nice.
It would be nice to have access to previous projects where you could still go back and undo edits you've made. The draft feature seems to only be good for one project at a time.
Layers would be nice. That way when you use a sticker or add a photo on top and go on to make more edits, you could still move them around instead of just having to undo everything and re-add the stick or additional photo.
One thing that kind of sticks out is that with so much to choose from, you can feel overwhelmed.
Some of the photos I sometimes can find separately by googling. In the music business, it seems like many photos rotate on the web so there isn't as much to pick from.
I didn't see an option for more vertical videos for use in Instagram or TikTok.
I have used Pixlr earlier but Picsart has more features than Pixlr. More effects, more stickers, and fonts on Picsart with high resolution image creation. Support also best at Picsart tool and they are improving customer experience time to time with new features.
Pexels is free and fully licensed for commercial use, as is Unsplash to a certain extent. I generally open all 3 to search for free stock images for budget-sensitive clients; that being said, I always find myself searching Pixabay first. They have the best user interface of the three and generally have the best image options. Adobe, Shutterstock, and iStock have better images, and I use those for clients who are less budget-sensitive.
Streamlined editing with helpful tools that would take much longer to do manually in other software.
Free software without a watermark like many other apps, so it costs nothing but storage space on my phone.
Boosted my confidence in being able to post my photos, especially of myself, because I am able to better highlight the best parts of the photos and mask the distractions or less favorable parts of photos.
