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Beautiful Slideshows and
Royalty-Free Music Made Easy
Company: Pixellu
Price: $8–$48/month
Rating:
Hot: High-resolution slideshows; curated
royalty-free music; fast; easy to use
Not: Slideshow download feature coming soon
Review by Michael Corsentino
Pixellu
SmartSlides
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,