The Right Picture is Worth 1000 Words.
I’ve made hundreds of websites over the years and one thing that I have always valued as is a ready source of graphics.
I admit freely that making graphics is not my strong point, so I have used all kinds of sites to find stock images, logos, icons and all those things that are an absolute necessity for making websites that work.
I have paid a fortune for a single image, and I’ve used free stock image sites like Pixabay, Pexels and Unsplash. But even though they are good, it can still be difficult to find just the right picture. Some people use Google’s image search, but when you set it to only show pictures that have re-use licenses, the number of usable images found can be frustratingly small.
The truth is that finding good images is a bit of a faff and is almost always frustratingly time consuming.
Even when you have found a great picture, you almost always need to crop it, or adjust it, or do some kind of image manipulation work – and that means learning how to use Photoshop, or one of the many alternatives.
Until now, that was just the way things were.
Things just got much better.
I recently learned about a new product called MediaCloudPro 2.0. It is brilliant.
What you get (for a surprisingly low cost) is access to over 9 MILLION searchable images, graphics, gifs, stickers, icon and vector illustrations. You can download them, post them straight to Facebook or Pinterest, or use the built-in image editing software that is really easy to use.
As the entire collection is searchable by a variety of keywords, finding the right image is easy.
You probably already know that now is one of the best times ever to build yourself an online business, and having access to over 9-million royalty-free graphics will make that so much easier – and cheaper.
I bought MediaCloudPro 2.0 and think it is one of the best investments I’ve made for a while.
See if you agree.
It has hardly been off my desktop since I bought it! And so far, I have been able to find exactly the image I wanted for a variety of projects I’ve been working on.
I still can’t quite believe how much you get for so little money!
There are two options for the front-end product: a regular, personal use option, and an ‘agency’ version that gives you the right to use the images (or any other media objects) for your clients or friends.
If you haven’t seen MediaCloudPro yet, or if you’ve checked out the sales page but put off making a decision, now is the time to act.
Media Cloud Pro 2 – Picture Perfect!
Special Discount Code
I honestly don’t know how long this will last, so apologies if it has been deactivated when you get there, but if you use the coupon code MCP10%OFF in box #2 on the checkout page, and then click the ‘Apply’ button, you should get a secret 10% discount. As I say, I can’t promise the coupon is still active, but it won’t hurt to try.
Kickstart Readers Asked…
After I first wrote about Media Cloud Pro 2.0 in Kickstart Newsletter, several readers asked me for a bit more detail…
One thing that almost everyone who has a website, blog or newsletter has in common is the constant need for decent pictures.
You can spend a fortune buying them, or hours trying to find good ones on free stock image sites. Either way, you waste time or money.
In twenty years online I must have spent thousands of dollars on stock images and frittered away hundreds of hours on sites like Pixabay and Pexels trying to find free ones. Not always successfully.
This is a current screenshot of Shutterstock’s pricing. £29 for just FIVE pictures.
I have even bought a lot of stock image ‘fire sales’ where you get a few thousand photographs, and have paid anything from $27 up to $67 – only to find them hard to search – and often of dubious quality.
This is one such package, currently on sale at JVZoo. 12,289 images for $29.97.
So when I first saw the sales page for MediaCloudPro 2.0 from Firestarters I must admit I thought it looked too good to be true. After all, they are offering a truly huge array of pictures, gifs, icons, stickers – well over 9 MILLION items for a lot less than I have paid for ONE picture in the past.
Media Cloud Pro 2 – Don’t Forget to Try the Coupon Code!
What makes it even better – better than any collection of graphics I have bought before – is that it is searchable.
Let me show you.
Here is the main dashboard.
On the left of the main dashboard is the menu of options. You can find all kinds of media objects here.
Note that some of the menu items show are flagged in pink. That’s because I bought the first upgrade which gives you access to sound effects and video assets alongside the normal images, gif, icons and stickers. It was a low cost upgrade and, in my opinion, well worth buying.
But for this review I am concentrating on the basic product.
Click on ‘Find Media’ in the menu. Then click ‘images’.
Suppose I want a picture of a garden. There are thousands of choices.
So let’s narrow it down…flowers.
No problem. But I’m building a yellow themed web page so I add ‘yellow’.
And instantly I have more relevant images at my fingertips than I could ever need!
I hover over one I like and can then choose to edit it in a simple program or a more complex, Photoshop-like one.
Let’s choose the simple one.
Adding a quote is simplicity itself. There are loads of easy adjustments available, but if you want even more control, the Photoshop-lookalike option is a very good graphics editor indeed.
And in just a few seconds I had a great picture ready to download to my computer.
Another feature of MediaCloudPro that I like is that you can upload your own pictures to it. That is really useful thing to be able to do.
Also, I showed above how expensive some ‘Firesale’ packages of graphics can be to get just a few thousand images. MediaCloudPro actually includes loads of them as bonuses – almost every one of them is currently being sold for more than MediaCloudPro – but you get them free!
This is a huge bargain.
I know a few pictures can’t do MediaCloudPro justice, and I’m only scratching the surface, but I hope you see the value as I do.
A REALLY Informative Sales Page
So many sales pages are awful that is is a refreshing change to come across one that is actually really useful. It is packed with information, and has tons of ideas of how you can use the 9 million+ graphics in all kinds of ways. Even if you don’t currently want to buy, I urge you to read the sales page anyway because you can’t fail to come away with so many ideas you can use.
If you have EVER needed a picture for a website, blog, newsletter, social media post, meme – offline or online – you will absolutely find MediaCloudPro to be one of the most valuable things you have bought.
