Effective 12/01/2009, Pixmac no longer offers automatic keywording.
Photograph keywords may be added manually at Pixmac or through IPTC.

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Sarah Medway Interview

October 14, 2009

Sarah MedwayPlace of birth: London, UK
Work: Professional web/graphic designer and photographer;
Branding, corporate identity, web site design, design for print
Study: BA Hons in Graphic Design, Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
Interests/Hobbies:  Photography, cats (anything feline), writing music, playing guitar, cycling
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The Pixmac microstock agency is proud to announce that we now offer 7 million stock photos for our customers. Only a few competitors can say the same. Our collection consists of 3 sources- two are creative and one editorial called “Celebrity”. Pixmac is the fastest way to get a stock photo or illustration for your design for a price that might surprise you.
When the pink company launched its marketplace in September 2008 it might have seemed like just another microstock company that is trying to make it. But look how much we have grown in a year! Pixmac has partners in 9 major markets and its sales are growing faster than expected.
Our company is  growing faster than other competitors in the microstock market according to respected site Alexa.com and  the amount of pictures grows with it. Not only that, Pixmac invented the “One Stop Shopping” way to get inexpensive quality photos in a matter of seconds without needing registar. Lee Torrens, a well known microstock blogger, says: “I LOVE your one-stop-shopping idea! It has always been a missing element of microstock agencies…” Yes, Pixmac is focused our speed and user friendliness.
Pixmac has a lot to offer and more in the oven to offer our customers. For example, Pixmac is working with a University on a project that will change your searching abilities that will make searching quicker and easier. We are also adding another few million photos to the database soon and working on some nice stock photo searching tweaks.
This week we´re launching a new updated website together with features such as Moneybookers payment method which added with payments by PayPal and/or  Credit Card. Also we have included a popular feature that sorts search results by downloads or date.
Vitezslav Valka (CEO) comments: “I’m always thrilled to see our customers happy with the user interface. Everybody deserves an easy tool that just works. I’m watching everything that happens in the company and believe me, it’s better than Red Bull and Duracell together!”

The Pixmac microstock agency is proud to announce that we now offer 7 million stock photos for our customers. Only a few competitors can say the same. Our collection consists of 3 sources. Two are creative and one editorial called “Celebrity”. Pixmac is the fastest way to get a stock photo or illustration for your design for a price that might surprise you.

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Sue Jenkins interview

September 21, 2009

We have decided to make a serial of few interviews with world top graphic designers and tell their life stories and experiences.
Here is the first one!
sue

Place of birth: California
Work: Professional web/graphic designer and illustrator;
Write instructional books;
Create easy-to-follow Adobe Software Training DVDs on Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop Elements through Class On Demand;
Teach software design classes in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver;
Study: Fine Art in Photography
Interests/Hobbies: Cooking (especially baking), walking, going to museums, traveling, and watching movies

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Many of you searching for photos were confused with credits, our virtual currency. Pixmac has solved that now for you. You don’t have to learn what credit is and you even don’t have to register at Pixmac if you need just one picture.

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On Wednesday, July 29th 2009, the Pixmac microstock photo bank has prepared a summer discount special. Buy credits at Pixmac and you automatically get five times more! Read the rest of this entry »

Pixmac wins IEA09 prize

June 19, 2009

Pixmac microstock photobank was nominated and won the prize in the 2009 Internet Effectiveness Awards contest in the  Award for Innovation category. The competition was very high as there were 11 other innovative projects nominated. Read the rest of this entry »

Pixmac has developed a new application for Facebook users. The application is called “My Pixmac“. With this application, all Pixmac photographers can place their photo sales statistics in their Facebook profile. Read the rest of this entry »

Internet Effectiveness Awards 2009Pixmac was shortlisted for Internet Effectiveness Awards 2009 in the “Business to Business” category! IEA (Internet Effectiveness Awards) is the competition of e-shops and commercial websites for the most effective internet project. Read the rest of this entry »

Pixmac is growing rapidly. Thanks to our development team and interpreters we have extended the range of language versions to be serve our growing customer base. Pixmac is now available in Czech, Russian and in beta in German, Italian and Spanish. In the near future we are going to launch French, Polish and Brasilian versions. Read the rest of this entry »