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    Pixabay

    Score9 out of 10
    N/APixabay 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.N/A

    Pixelied

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/APixelied is presented as a fast and easy to use online design tool from the company of the same name in Walnut, California, that helps users quickly create images and graphics. It has a set of tools that aim to enable the novice and the advanced user to create stunning designs.

    $97

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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Best Alternatives
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    Pexels
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    User Ratings
    PixabayPixelied
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (41 ratings)
    10.0
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    Usability
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    PixabayPixelied
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Pixabay
    This is perfect for any individual or organization that's working on a budget. You'll get stock photos that, while there's a more limited selection than the usual paid sites (Getty, iStock, etc.), are often just as high-quality. For smaller businesses and nonprofits where every dollar counts, I've found myself leaning on Pixabay quite a bit for stock images and, from time to time, will end up buying one of the linked commercial images when Pixabay doesn't have what I need. However, if you have a large budget for stock images, Pixabay will likely not be your best choice, as the paid services offer generous discounts for bulk credit purchases.
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    Pixelied
    Pixelied is an online graphic design suite that makes it easy to create posters, ads, and branded designs for blogs, social media, and other publishing platforms. I am utilizing Pixelied to promote my social media accounts and to get thumbnails created for my YouTube channel. I use the photo filters to adjust the color of my photos, the mockup generator to piece together images with different backdrops, and the stock images and vector elements collection to add more detail and dimension to my designs. The templates allow me to create banners, image posters, and quotes. I found it easy to use because I could edit my own content without having to learn advanced design features. The templates helped me get started quickly and had everything I needed, from fonts down to icons. The photo filters were fun—they gave me an idea of how photos would look with different colors or patterns applied before I actually used them on my final designs. The only thing I didn't like about this tool was that adding images could slow down a layout if there were too many of them at once (like when you're trying to make a collage).
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    Pros
    Pixabay
    • Separate photos, illustrations, and vectors—Many competitors have these images all lumped together with a limited ability to sort through them, while Pixabay has a robust library of all of these, making it easy to find what you're looking for.
    • Free, high-quality images and easy-to-understand licensing rules—Often a new client will have bad image usage habits, freely snagging any image off of google. Pixabay is an excellent resource to give clients a huge range of photos without the fear of getting into copyright trouble.
    • Sound effects—Free, good-quality sound effects are surprisingly difficult to find amongst competitors, but Pixabay has them in their lineup as well.
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    Pixelied
    • Create posters for social media promotional and commercial ads.
    • Design banners, visual components, and posters for websites and mobile applications.
    • Create thumbnails, end screens, intro and outro animations, and graphics for YouTube.
    • For social media, create motivational and inspiring posters and visual stories with quotations and text.
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    Cons
    Pixabay
    • 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.
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    Pixelied
    • Performance can become sluggish, particularly when adding new photos or vector elements to the layout design.
    • Pixelied can incorporate a broader assortment of creative stock assets, similar to Canva.
    • The options for modifying the composition's color scheme, adding customized elements, and personalizing the brand can be enhanced.
    • The basic options for moving, scaling, and rearranging layers and backgrounds should be accessible by right-clicking in the composition itself rather than through tool sets in the upper right sidebar.
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    Usability
    Pixabay
    A lot of times, it can be difficult to find things on a website. Pixabay search works extremely well. This way we don’t have to search and keep searching. The results along with the recommendations are very tailored and work well
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    Pixelied
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    Alternatives Considered
    Pixabay
    Pixabay has given me the free vectors I need for my whiteboard animation videos, which aren't available on the other sites, in addition to the video and audio clips. They've been around for a long time and have stayed consistent, valuable, and easy to use throughout the years. They were my first site for free downloads and remain my favorite image download site to this day.
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    Pixelied
    Pixelied offers a more straightforward and brisk workflow for designing and editing images compared to Canva and VistaCreate. This is despite the fact that Pixelied has a somewhat more limited choice of stock photographs and vector elements, in addition to readymade design templates. Additionally, it lacks several fundamental features and functionalities, such as the capability to personalize the different layers and color themes. It also has a restricted number of color themes. Pixelied, in contrast to InVideo and OFFEO, does not yet have any animation or video editing features. However, it does have the capability to design image layouts that can serve as a base for video slideshows and presentations, and it does offer photo mockups. Pixelied is an alternative to 123rf that provides an in-built stock photo and vectors library that is included in the subscription price. Additionally, you do not have to pay an extra fee for each new image that you download. 123rf, on the other hand, is a dedicated website for licensing and downloading stock images; therefore, its collection and diversity are significantly more extensive than those of Pixelied.
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    Return on Investment
    Pixabay
    • We don't lose any money trying to buy images
    • Our videos get more views if we put the good quality images we find in Pixaby
    • The posts we make with their images always get a professional aspect, and get more engagement from a diverse social media users.
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    Pixelied
    • My YouTube channel is attracting new viewers and subscribers because of the improved thumbnails created with Pixelied.
    • I am able to prepare better visual presentations and proposals for clients, thus increasing my chances of project approval.
    • I am able to design better ads and posters for promotional marketing campaigns across social media and my website.
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