Pixmac announces its first giveaway! Just post your affiliate link in comments. After we reach 200 comments, we will give 50 credits to one of you. Its that easy! Anyway, why should you get gifts only on Christmas and maybe birthday?

Taking part in this giveaway is pretty easy. We’re happy when seeing a lot of comments here. And you can be happy if we reach at least 200 comments in this post with the affliliate link! Its your turn now! Spread the word and help yourself! Its Jackpot time right after we reach 200 or more comments!

Example:

Hi there! I’m Jane from New York and my link is: #Jane

Remeber: If you don’t win now, it may make sense for you to watch our blog via RSS. In the future more giveaways may be coming! Anyway, thank you for participation!

Rules: Credit wins one of the customers or photographers who add their Affiliate code (number or nick with the “#” symbol) into this post. The deadline for giving the 50 credits to one of you is 200 comments. Then we will post the name of the randomly chosen winner here in the post. The winner gets $50 equivalent in Pixmac credits. This credit can be used for photos, illustrations and other graphics from Pixmac collection.

Anyone who wants to have a 50% share of Pixmac’s revenue should upload photos before the end of February (this Saturday). Our offer “Get $100 or $500 just by uploading photos” is about to end. And I am happy to report that we’ve already sent money to the first photographers who have 500 pictures approved already! It’s easy to be as happy as them! Register here.

27th January 2009 – Prague, Czech Republic, EU – Celebrate the speed of Pixmac’s increasing users and photographers by guessing one number. You can win an iPhone or credits for free.

Starting today, we are running a Hit the Jackpot contest, open for everyone. Guess the number of pictures available on Pixmac on 1st March 2009 and win an iPhone! Or, if yours is one of the closest 1000 guesses, you could win a share of $10,000 bonus credits. And more – if any of your affiliates win, you’re a winner too.

As you may know, we are one of the youngest agencies in the Microstock market, but despite the crisis we are the most active one. Our picture database currently has 1.7 million pictures and we are working hard to expand this number to 3 millions in near future.

But we know that quantity is not the measure, so we are improving Pixmac every day, and it works! Let’s see some statistics: Alexa, the valued visitor statistics tool, shows that we’re growing faster than Yaymicro, Moodboard or Snapvillage (owned by Corbis). So stay tuned and be prepared for a change.

Don’t wait to be the one who wins the iPhone! Or if you’re just looking for the best partner to deliver low-budget pictures, choose Pixmac. You’ll get an easy-to-use interface, smart search with advanced features, partner program and more.

And, one more secret for you. If you know how to find promo codes on the net, maybe you’ll find some Pixmac discounts.

Professional designers, as others, sometimes need a rest. They take a job for a non-profit organization or do a favor for their friend. When there is a need for a photo, Pixmac can help to keep the budget as low as possible. As one forum said: “The best free pictures available on the net…”

The best thing is, that the collection is here for you to use. You can register at Pixmac any time, and pay nothing for hundreds of free photos. Also you can look for some other themes in our collection of millions low-budget pictures of high quality ones from 0.1 Megapixel up to 16 Megapixels.

Another good thing is the speed and comfort. Pixmac is made to serve you photos. That is its purpose and that is why there are pictures easily available. Without any marketing text which just disturbs you, even without pop-up windows and blinking banners. Nothing like this at Pixmac.

Thanks to all this, the collection is growing every day. Now we have covered almost every aspect of your personal and business life, so you can find anything you need just by clicking: Search. Isn’t that easy?

We at Pixmac hope, that you will be satisfied or we will be contacted right away!

Specialists say that the usual software will become history soon. The new era of using a computer connected to internet just with a browser is closer than we might think. Let’s jump into the future and experience online image editing right now!

Pixlr

A fast and easy to use application just like Photoshop on your desktop. I’ts unbelievable that it runs so fast, without registration and has so many functions. These swedish guys have same targets as we at Pixmac. Making a good tool is the primary vision for both. And, their name starts with “Pix” as Pixmac The only bad thing is that you cannot save your pictures with layers.

Pixlr homepage: www.pixlr.com
Pixlr application: www.pixlr.com/app

Splashup

This was for few months, the number one in online image editing. The good thing Splashup has the possibility to connect to image posting sites like Flickr, Facebook or Picasa. And also, you can save your images if you’re registered user or use a Light version if you don’t want to learn all those fuctions of the full version.

Splashup homepage: www.splashup.com

Picnik

The third application is a bit too compliacted to use. It has similar functions as Splashup above, but it is more focused to the enduser and to young people. It seems more like added value for social sites users rather than a bitmap picture editor. Additionaly, there is a premium version with some more functions for a small payment.

Picnik homepage: www.picnik.com

Photoshop Online

This is a real Photoshop thing. Ok, ok, not a complete Photoshop online, but a clean tool from the makers of the Photoshop – the Adobe company. This piece is similar to Picnik but packed in a much better interface. It is a easy and simple tool to make few corrections with your photo, nothing more.

Photoshop homepage: www.photoshop.com

Summary

These apps prove the theory about user migration from standalone apps to online world. The editors are not that good and fast as a real Photoshop or GIMP in your computer, but they definitely will take a piece of cake. The world is changing in front of our eyes! Be ready to jump in!

There are some smaller apps like:

Foto Flexer: www.fotoflexer.com
Phixr: www.phixr.com
Snipshot: www.snipshot.com

Selling stock photos is a hard work. If you love taking pictures it’s fun. But when the time comes to uploading and managing the images for selling, suddenly the hard part comes. At Pixmac that is history. Keywording is automatically for free.

When I was surfing the web to find out what people think about Pixmac, I found a discussion at Microstock Group website. The geeks with soon becoming professionals were discussing the keywording issue and were searching for solutions.

Actually, there are solutions

• Use software to use the keywords for more sites at once
• Pay the site for keywording
• Upload your pictures to Pixmac

The real reason behind this free keywording is the accuracy of the search. That is a benefit for both sides. As you are propably the professional in photography, we have a lot of experience in searching and setting keywords. So why distract your focus to anything else? Do your job better than before and leave the rest to Pixmac.

We at Pixmac want to be fair and open. Our primary target is to make a great tool for the photographers and the buyers. So feel free to contact us and ask. We need to know your needs to make Pixmac even better.

More in the discussion:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?topic=6286.0

Interesting point of view:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=5418674