Testimonials

Pixoroo offers a few services for photographers such as Web building, Club Competitions, Salons' Entrying and the FIAP App. I am a proud user of all of them!

Pixoroo Web Builder

I have used Pixoroo to build my own Website ( andrewbuckleyphotography.com ). The web builder building blocks are intuitive and easy to use. The building blocks are for Galleries, Sub Galleries, Web Pages, Sub Pages, Miscellaneous Pages, Private Galleries, Presentations, Contact Page and Diary Page. It is easy to add content and to maintain ongoing. My experience of building my website to what I wanted as a finished showcase for my work was enjoyable, easy to do and stress free. I am very happy with the final finished website that looks sleek and professional.

Pixoroo Salons

I have already entered three salons on Pixoroo. I have found the process smooth and easy. I love the fact that I have access to all my entries any time, I can download images from one salon and enter to another. When the results are published they are automatically showing on my Pixoroo Salon Portal.

Pixoroo Clubs

As an active member of The Cheltenham Camera Club I use Pixoroo for entering Club Competitions but also in the hall or via zoom when the competitions are judged. Everything is sleek and smooth. Like in the case of my salon entries, I can download images entered in a club competitions and upload them to another with ease.

Pixoroo FIAP App

I use Pixoroo to help me progress to AFIAP accreditation. It aids in finding your next international salon to enter, If you already have sized images on Pixoroo in your FIAP library it is easy to download them to the salon you wish to enter. When you have your results back from the salon it is simple to record your result in Pixoroo. This then feeds into Your Statistics showing what you have already achieved and what you need to achieve. In the My Statistics section you can see at a glance what you need to do to achieve your FIAP accreditation. Pixoroo creates the whole FIAP Appication for you. In a couple of clicks you have the Excel Application, The Thumbnail Images Prints and the Dossier Images ready to send to FIAP.

Pixoroo Clubs

Stroud Camera Club has chosen Pixoroo to be our competition management solution. We believe Pixoroo has the flexibility and simplicity of operation to enable our Competition Secretary to quickly and easily set up and run the competitions for each Season, in any format the Club chooses to use. Regardless of whether the Club chooses to apply user levels such as Advanced or Intermediate, or whether we choose to use a “points” system or a “”hold-back” system or a combination of each, Pixoroo makes it easy to set up. Standing data such as competition types (open, mono, colour, prints, digital etc etc) only has to be set up once and from then on is simply selected as required to suit. The Competition secretary can easily email individual or all competition entrants, and the judge too, during the run-up to the competition, all from within Pixoroo, using the built-in editor. No technical or computing expertise is required to run Pixoroo.

Competition entrants benefit from receiving an automatic email confirmation of their entries, including thumbnails. Entries can easily be changed at any point up to the closing date of the competition, resulting in a fresh confirmation email each time. Entrants’ competition images build into their own library of images and are also added to the searchable Club Library, making it simple for the Club to select images for possible use in external competitions, based on various criteria such as date range, scores awarded, authors’ names etc.

In summary, Pixoroo offers us the comprehensive, fully featured and flexible competition management system we require. It is presented in a thoroughly modern and clean interface with easy usability of setup and operation and with positive benefits for competition entrants. The one caveat is that Pixoroo runs entirely on the internet so clubs must have a good broadband internet connection available for presenting the Competition “on the night.” If this is unavailable in your club premises it can be overcome, as we have done, with the use of a mobile hotspot.

Pixoroo FIAP App

I started my FIAP journey in 2016 but became very disheartened by the complicated and laborious process of results gathering and the administration involved in applying for the FIAP qualifications, so I gave up, as I was working full time and just didn’t have enough spare time to wade my way through it all.

Fast forward to 2024 and by chance I came across Pixoroo. Having looked at it’s capabilities it inspired me to start my FIAP journey again.

The FIAP app is just fabulous. It covers everything you need to enter salons, record your entries, record your results, and even gives you a personal progress page under “My Stats”. It also does the form filling for you for the qualifications.

At the time of writing this (January 2025) my AFIAP application has been submitted and I am on my way to EFIAP. I would not have done this without Pixoroo.

Any questions I have had were responded to very quickly and helpfully. I can’t recommend this FIAP app enough…. what’s stopping you?

Club Websites and Club Competitions

A camera club’s website is its shop window and is an essential tool for members to share images, stay updated with club information and their platform to enter competitions. Pixoroo provides an intuitive platform that is easy to navigate through whether you are a visitor to the site or a club member, many of whom have limited IT skills. Design, functionality and ease of use are essential in ensuring the site is used on a regular basis. From my role within Stroud Camera Club, and as a past Club Chairman, I have been extremely impressed with Pixoroo both as a solution for providing a club website that allows us to showcase our members’images throughout a site that covers all the bases required of our online home. Moreover, our ability to configure the site to meet our needs with exceptional support from the developer, Aleks Gjika, gives us confidence that the site will continue to evolve to meet our future needs.

For a new website solution, I have been hugely impressed with the functionality and stability of the software. The seamless integration of our new website with the Pixoroo competition entry platform is a tremendous benefit, providing a familiar look and feel for Club members wherever they are within the Pixoroo system. Competition entry has proven to be easy for members with little confidence around computers to master and has transformed our ability to manage entries and run competition nights once members have submitted their images. Getting images to judges and displaying images on competition nights has been made very much easier since adopting Pixoroo as our competition software. As a judge myself, I see the benefits of working with clubs that use Pixoroo and can access images through my standard Pixoroo log-in. Through that same logi-n I can even enter salons that use the Pixoroo platform. The platform really supports club photographers and allows them to concentrate on creating their images.