Happy 2020!
We want to share with you our 2020 video showcase:
Plus, we just joined Twitter! You can follow us @PixoEditor.
Pixo Image Editor
Custom user stickers are now available
We just released another most-wanted feature (thanks to your votes). This is the custom user stickers. Your users are now able to insert stickers (or technically any image) from their local device or from URL. See it in action:
Don’t forget to vote for your next most-wanted feature!
Merry Christmas! Save up to 70%* on all packages
It is almost the end of the year. As usual, we added some Christmas-mood stickers to our stock collection, for your users. If you do not want them – you can remove them. Check the filterStickers API in the Documentation.
Save up to 70%* on all packages
It’s Christmas! And to do some good, we added discounts to all pre-paid packages. Check our Pricing section for more information.
Thank you for using Pixo! We wish you a Merry Christmas, and a happy New year!
* Discounts apply to all purchases made until Dec 31, 2019. Discounts apply to recurring payments for one year after the first payment. After that regular prices will be applied.
Compressing and optimizing saved images
We all know how important it is to have a fast web these days. The usual bottleneck for slower websites and apps is the uncompressed images. Starting off today, Pixo offers great image compression to all exported images as a premium feature. With the help of TinyPNG, one of the best image compression services, you will have compressed images to the max without any visual quality loss.
Image compression is disabled by default. The reason is simple: compressing images takes time and results in slower image export. To enable it add the following configuration to your Pixo instances:
new Pixo.Bridge({ apikey: 'yourapikey', output: { optimize: true, }, });
JPEG vs PNG
JPEG is proven as a very good image format resulting in high quality images with lowest possible kilobytes. But it has one major drawback – JPEG does not support transparency; PNG does – at the cost of too many kilobytes, or even megabytes.
Pixo has a great algorithm for detecting the best output format for the exported images in terms of higher quality and lower filesize. Unless you explicitly specify the desired image format of the output, this algorithm comes in action by default and chooses the best image format (JPEG or PNG) for the output image based on transparency, number of colors, gradients, and more.
Let us help you speed up the web!
With Pixo Premium you do not need to care more about image compression anymore!
Happy Thanksgiving!
This week it’s Thanksgiving and Black Friday! Therefore:
- we deployed a thematic stickers pack
- we give you a special -50% discount on all packages!
Stickers
They are available in all plans, so enjoy!
If you do not want them, you may consider filtering them by using our filterStickers and filterFrames APIs.
Black Friday -50% OFF
When purchasing new plan, use this promo code:
BF2019
on the checkout page and this will give you -50% discount on all packages*. It can be combined with this November’s annual packages discounts, giving you a great price!
Use the code between Nov 25–29.
Happy Thanksgiving! Be good!
* Discount is applied only on the first subscription payment. Discount is not applied on recurring payments (subscription renewals).
Optimizing our response time
A few months ago we improved Pixo’s response time with smart routing. This optimizes routes across the network to deliver responses to your users more quickly, reliably, and securely. As a result, we got average speed improvement with almost 20%. You can see that yourself on our status page.
Speaking of status, you can observe Pixo’s status 24/7 on
This report is hosted on a 3rd party servers, so in case you are having troubles accessing Pixo’s service or website, you can check the report. We are proud with our 100% uptime 🙂
Remember November! Get discounts up to 66% on all subscriptions!
It’s almost the end of the year! We are giving a huge discounts on each annual subscription!
- Small annual package:
$120/year$100/year, that makes $8.33/month - Medium annual package:
$360/year$240/year, that makes $20/month - Small annual package:
$1620/year$550/year, that makes $45.83/month
Promotion applies only on annual subscriptions and ends November 30, 2019.
Discounts are applied only on the first subscription payment. Discounts are not applied on recurring payments (subscription renewals).
Happy Halloween!
As Halloween is upfront, we released a thematic stickers pack + bonus frame for your users. They are available in all plans, so enjoy!
If you are not a Halloween fan, you may consider filtering them by using our filterStickers and filterFrames APIs.
New text features
Almost month ago we asked you which are your most wanted new features. Most votes were for extending Text controls. Therefore, we did it! We added a lot of new options to the Text plugin of the editor:
- Text background-color
- Line height
- Letter spacing
- Text shadow
- Text stroke
- Superscript / subscript
- Text-fill Pattern
Also, we improved control over selections. Now users can apply text styles to selection only. Watch the video and see all these in action:
What’s next?
We plan to extend the Text-fill Pattern functionality by creating API for custom patterns, as well as add UI for uploading custom patterns.
The most wanted features form is still active!
Vote for your most wanted features now, and we will implement them with higher priority!
Customizing styles: custom stylesheet
As you know, when integrating Pixo you can customize its look & feel by setting colors and backgrounds of the main components. We’ve been asked by a couple of customers to allow styling of even more & smaller components, like form elements, buttons, etc.
Instead, today we provide hook for attaching custom stylesheets.
This will allow you to completely overwrite Pixo’s default styles with your own, matching in full the look & feel of your product (fonts, colors, etc.).
How it works?
Just define your stylesheets in the styles option property:
var pixo_instance = new Pixo.Bridge({ apikey: 'abc123xyz000', styles: { // CSS text css: '.pixo-canvaswrap { outline: 15px solid red }', // Stylesheet URL url: 'https://yourdomain.com/path/to/pixo-overrides.css', }, });
You can define both.
Backward-compatibility?
This change preserves the old way of setting custom styles.
Custom styling is a Premium feature
Check out our Pricing for further details.
