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Find beautiful free stock photos on your desktop
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William Channer
Stockmagic for Mac — Find beautiful free stock photos on your desktop
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William Channer
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Happy to share another project with you all. In a nutshell, we wanted to make it easy for you find stock photos, so we came up with this :)
Rob Wilson
Seems like a very handy product, although I'm concerned that once installed and update was downloaded, then I get the message"Sparkle updater: possible attack in progress! Attempting to “upgrade” from 1 to 0. Aborting update.". I've emailed the developer and will update here once I've heard more.
Andreas Kullander
Very nice little app, but it downloads a really small one, so mostly useless for me atm =(
G G
https://everypixel.com/ Would be nice as is searches all images... Also option for bigger images, on a high res monitor the images are no bigger than icons. Good version 1.0 though thanks.
Lu Frankland
Maker
@androidlove The problem with allowing direct Shutterstock and iStockPhoto access is the licensing on each image and you would have to hold an account with each of the providers. The nice thing about this is that they are all CC-0 licensed images meaning free for personal and commercial use.
Craig Barber
Wow! This looks super awesome. Well done guys. Love it how you can drag straight from app to app!
David Kosmayer
Pixabay is an amazing resource, you guys just keep doing what your doing and thank you !
Adam C. Engst
I agree with others that the app window is just too small; if you're looking for an image, a preview that's smaller than a postage stamp isn't helpful. It needs to be a standalone app with a resizable window. Besides, menubar apps are competing for space with a lot of other apps. It would be useful to be able to drag images out to a Mac app, but only if you could control the size of the image you got, perhaps through a preference. I'd also like to see a sidebar showing the tags associated with an image and perhaps another sidebar with related images; both would make browsing for the perfect image a lot faster and easier.
Joe Kaz
Downloaded this. Nice concept but disappointed to see you cannot simply click an image to set it as a desktop image. Instead you have to save to a folder then do the usual right click > services > set as desktop. In addition there is no way to filter by resolution. The first 5 images I attempted to set were fuzzy as hell on my 4k monitor. Nice concept but until you make those two changes, for me its not very useful.
Atanas Mahony
Maker
@joe_kaz it is actually a lot easier than this. Simply open Desktop Preferences and drag any image you'd like straight in ;)
Omer Molad
I downloaded it. Will give it a try.
T0ha
Looks interesting as makes things quicker, but my lap crashed after second search :-(
Hoang Nguyen Vi Cam
I don't see the big advantage over the traditional web access, it has smaller preview anyway. Is it possible to get from other sources, even it's powered by pixabay?
Pixabay
@hnvcam Main advantage over the website is that you can directly drag and drop images into any Mac app. Including other sources would hardly be of benefit, given that almost all other sites copy images from Pixabay.com
William Channer
Maker
@simonsteinbgr @hnvcam Yup! Simon is right :) See it in action http://quick.as/n8RYSD9PY
Alistair Jameson
Using an iMac, latest version of iOS and crashed it after downloading 1 image. iMac has no history of crashing so uninstalled it directly after restarting. The concept is great but definitely needs to be worked on more before giving it out to download. "When a mac crashes my heart skips a beat" if you know what I mean.