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Pixellu SmartSlides
Beautiful Slideshows and Royalty-Free Music Made Easy
Review by Michael Corsentino
Okay, I’m impressed! One of things that’s always driven me a little nuts about creating slideshows is the cumbersome process of add- ing images; how time-consuming and expensive it can be finding tasteful, royalty-free music; and the low-resolution final results, even when I’m using the best solutions available.
Well, that has all changed with Pixellu’s new Web-based, slide- show-creation software, SmartSlides! After two years of develop- ment from the ground up, Pixellu is bringing a fresh and exciting approach to slideshows. Gone are the hours spent searching music libraries; clunky, frustrating user interfaces; and lackluster resolution.
With SmartSlides’ HTML5 implementation, beautiful, full- screen, high-resolution images that take full advantage of today’s gorgeous high-resolution screens are finally a reality. When it comes to music, SmartSlides has you covered, as well. Pixellu partnered with industry leading music service Marmoset to create a curated library of built-in, royalty-free music that’s prefect for use in slideshows.
While others try and be all things to all people, SmartSlides keeps it simple and focuses on what’s important: your images and sourcing great music to go with them. The SmartSlides Web inter- face shares the same simple, fast, and elegant design principles that have made Pixellu’s SmartAlbums a hit with photographers around the world.
The SmartSlides workflow is quick and easy, taking liter- ally around 12 minutes to create a full-blown slideshow from start to finish. The results are beautiful, polished, image-centric,
Company: Pixellu
Price: $8–$48/month
Rating:
Hot: High-resolutionslideshows;curated royalty-free music; fast; easy to use
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