AUSTIN, Texas, April 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Pixmarx the Spot™ is a free photo bragging app that debuted in Austin during this year's South by Southwest Interactive Conference. Pixmarx puts eye-catching, location-based frames on user's photos to increase visibility and likes on social media brags. Pixmarx is loaded with millions of landmarks, restaurants, and points of interest and automatically displays the closest location as a caption to the frame. The database also includes custom Pixmarx options with logos or event designs for participating businesses, but the upgraded Pixmarx frames are still free to the user. Pixmarx the Spot also includes seasonal, sports, and humorous choices, and the developers are constantly adding new Pixmarx selections. The app includes thirteen filters and easy posting to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Flikr, email, or direct printing to Walgreens.
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With over 350 million photos uploaded daily to Facebook alone, Pixmarx the Spot™ gives posters a way to make their pictures stand out and increase views by visually enhancing the standard brag or selfie. Users simply pick a Pixmarx and snap a picture. Using ViewMarx™ technology users can see the Pixmarx in the camera's viewfinder before taking a picture to ensure the best possible photo. Pixmarx's BackFilter™ technology lets users add filters to their photos without changing the Pixmarx.
Co-creator Barry Crutchfield got the idea for Pixmarx the Spot™ when he made a custom frame for his University of Texas tailgate crew. He explains, "Immediately after posting my tailgate pictures with a custom frame, I got more likes than any other picture I had ever posted. The frame with the team logo made my pictures stand out and drew people to my post. I tried to find an app that automatically tagged a frame with an event or location, and I could not find ONE. I talked it over with my business partner, Gary Lipps, and he came up with an app design that not only placed custom frames around pictures, but did so based on the user's geographical location. We had already made apps, and we knew this would be a huge a hit."
Pixmarx the Spot™ is owned and developed by Pixmarx the Spot, L.L.C., which is wholly owned by Austin-based Focustrain, L.L.C. Both entities are managed by software developers Barry Crutchfield and Gary Lipps. Pixmarx the Spot is patent-pending and is the tenth custom application from the Pixmarx/Focustrain development team. Pixmarx is available for iOS devices and can be downloaded free from the Apple App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixmarx-the-spot/id723185597?mt=8. Pixmarx will be available for Android devices later this year. Businesses wishing to add custom Pixmarx can find pricing information at http://www.pixmarx.com/~shop/main.html. More information is available at www.pixmarx.com.
Contact:
Barry Crutchfield, Co-Creator, Email, 512.771.3186