Category: Product Reviews

Pictorem is a new print on demand and artist portfolio site going up against the leader in the space – Fine Art America. Is it any good? My thoughts after six months are “yes”

I only mention affiliate links to programs and products that I actually use and the Jixipix range of Apps falls into that category. As usual at the US Thanksgiving holiday, they are offering a sale of 45% off their products. I have the Pro Bundle, that includes impressionist painting, pastel colors, jigsaw designs and others, and I actually have the water color app as well which I use quite often. I’ve used them mainly for fine art stuff that I...

I get a lot of emails about various discounts at this time of year, and so if you are in the running for one of the products that I use, here are the various sales I have seen: StockSubmitter – up to 80% off subscription sales between 27 November and 12 December. I use this program all the time and I will certainly be topping up my subscription amount. Remember that what you are buying is really a credit and...

I’ll do these posts from time to time when I see a new offer that looks interesting on the two main products that I regularly use (besides the Adobe suite). The first up is Luminar 4 from Skylum with its very clever sky replacement feature (and quite a lot of interesting things about adding large moons to empty skies at night). The latter might not work for stock images (because you don’t own the copyright on the moon image), but...

I’ve written before about the amazing way that Luminar 4 can change skies and can now, with the latest release, seamlessly add clouds or other objects into your own skies. I haven’t been playing with it too much recently as I have been working on new images to fill the growing need for illustrating our new normal, but I just got to know that they have an Easter Sale starting today. I’m sorry of you bought this at the higher...

I enjoy adding painting effects to my images and sometimes upload them as stock. I tried to learn Corel Painter a few years back but that was too complex for me and so I’ve stuck with Jixipix which has water color, oil painting and also drawing tools that are very easy to use. I bought mine when they had a 40% sale, but today they have upped that to 50%. The coupon code to use is LUCKY50 with the link...

Very quick post to say that I noticed that the DollyOne that I discussed how I used it in my review of November video sales is actually on sale for Cyber Monday – with $140 off the normal price to bring it down to $559. Not cheap by any means, but it is expertly made and as you have seen, I get great results from it! You can buy it using my affiliate link (which helps me by providing a...

I’m always on the lookout for pieces of software that do one of two things – help my workflow, or create new approaches to my images that will make them more interesting to buyers. I came across one in the past week (in fact it was hard to miss in the news) – Skylum’s Luminar image processing software. (Affiliate link) What attracted me to this in the first place was the excellent reviews it is getting for AI sky replacement....

I’m a keen user of the Jixipix range of applications and some of them have sold “reasonably” well – on Society6 in particular although I do get sales on both Adobe Stock and Shutterstock for this painting of San Diego: I haven’t done any new ones recently – probably the last ones were the images of the old homes in Athens – because I’m still overwhelmed with processing images from Portugal (and with others from Williamsburg in Virginia and now...