Picryl Opiniões 11

picryl will take your annual subscription and still won't let you view past the first page of images without asking for donations and blurring all the rest of the images the same as if you had no subscription at all they are cheats don't subscribe

Company sent horrible prints very blurry and pixelated. They stated they would only do 50% refund till I got the credit card company involved. They then sent a nasty email in return. You would do better getting prints from a old dot matrix printer then this company

They suggest they provide a free service, but after sucking you in and and getting you to invest some time, they require money. It would be OK if they made it clear at first that there were charges, registrations, sharing of your data, and so on. They have joined all the scammers on the Internet with deceptive claims.

being a paid site does make it low quality, from the main content point of view it is a high quality reputable site with high quality content

Picryl was a great free resource for historical images. Sadly it now requires payment to view more than three pages per search. I used to use it for (credited) images for my free community magazine but this is no longer an option. Extremely disappointed.

A lot of these negative reviews express annoyance that the public domain images are no longer free. I'm not looking forward to joining either, but just because the images are public domain doesn't mean that collecting, scanning, uploading etc. is also free. I'm not sure if Picryl is making a killing from the site by asking for a member's fee, but the people who get up in the morning to go maintain the site, gather new images and restore / enhance image quality for reproduction grade images deserve a decent salary. It's a site that has no advertising to pay its bills.

Free does not mean free. US institutions have signed up to let these guys hold images for payment.Should be illegal. Public domain means AVAILABLE to everyone.

I am happy with the multitude of images of all types. Opening every page was like opening a present. However, Picryl has ruined the "free" experience by slapping on a charge button - Upgrade - and that makes it no longer free if you wish to continue accessing images. And the screen is locked & blurred for any further use in that session. Disappointed like others.

Picyrl used to be a brilliant site for finding public domain images or just inspiration. Now they have spoiled it by insisting on an upgrade that blurs all images and stops you from viewing further. I cannot afford to subscribe so it looks like Picryl is no longer an option for me. How sad.

I made free use of images as an example for my art drawing.
I did download quite a lot and never had any problems.
Now all of a sudden I can no longer download unless I upgrade.
So I agree with former comments that this is not correct.
However I will not write to Picryl as it turns out that they do not want to answer.

Picryl (part of Getarchive.net) offers a search engine for images that are in the public domain. I tried using the free portion of their service, and thought that it would make it easier for me to find and download high resolution public domain images. Picryl offers "upgrades" to the free membership that provide "Unlimited Original-Resolution Downloads and AI Upscales" for $7/month when paid annually. This sounded good to me, so I paid for a year of this upgrade.
I started using the AI upscaler feature to download high resolution images. I downloaded 30 images with no issues. Then when I clicked to download my 31st image, a reCaptcha challenge popped up. I clicked through that and continued. But then the reCaptcha challenges kept popping up, and eventually they switched over to the "click all the images with buses" sort. The Picryl service was employing reCaptcha as a throttling mechanism to limit how many images I could download at one sitting.
I sent their customer service a note and asked them why I was getting the reCaptcha challenges when I was using a paid account that was supposed to have "unlimited" downloads. After a couple days they replied, "We implemented reCaptcha to fight abuse." Huh? How can using a paid account entitled to "unlimited" downloads to download images be abuse?
I wrote them again a couple of times arguing against the use of reCaptcha for users with paid accounts, but they refused to stop using it.
In my view this is FALSE ADVERTISING. No matter whether you pay for an account, Picryl does not allow "unlimited" downloads as promised.