When people make use of Pixabay, they often just search for an image, download it and leave. There's much more to the Pixabay website than you would expect. Artists have their own profiles and you can even make use of their API to include Pixabay results into your app or website. Special thanks to @transcript-junky for giving me the inspiration to write this article. 

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<center>https://i.imgur.com/FBAuUFc.png</center><center>*Source: [By Simon on Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/en/images-photos-photo-collection-381937/); Modified by @daan*</center>

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### One of the MOST forgotten features of Pixabay, has to be the donation button that resides next to *every image* you'll find on Pixabay. Consider pressing it if you've used an image from Pixabay on a Steemit post that has done well. 
<center>https://i.imgur.com/eQDdY4f.png</center>

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# <center>Videos</center>
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<div class="pull-right"><center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/eY5rtzt.png" /><br/><em><a href="https://pixabay.com/en/videos/">Source: Pixabay Videos Screenshot</a></em></center></div>
Pixabay has a pretty extensive collection of Public Domain videos. They're easy to miss, since they're usually not featured on the front page. <br><br>
The majority of videos found here are in HD quality, quite a few are even in 4K. If you're ever in need of royalty-free videos for one of your own projects, be sure to take a look here. <br><br>
You can search for videos on Pixabay through https://pixabay.com/en/videos/

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# <center>Advanced Image Search</center>
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Just like with Google Search, you can use certain symbols and operators in the Pixabay search field to fine-tune your search queries. Some examples below. 

### Combine
To combine multiple search terms, you can use the operator OR in your search. For example, if you want your results to include cars, planes and bikes, you should search with these parameters => **car OR plane OR bike**   [example](https://pixabay.com/en/photos/?q=car+OR+plane+OR+bike&hp=&image_type=all&order=popular&cat=&min_width=&min_height=)

*If you do not include the OR operator in your search, you will only get results which include all of those tags.*   [example](https://pixabay.com/en/photos/?q=car+plane+bike&hp=&image_type=all&order=popular&cat=&min_width=&min_height=)

### Exclude Images
Sometimes it can be really handy to exclude certain photos from your search results. It's really easy to do, you just add a minus(-) symbol in from of the word you want to exclude from your results. For example, you want to search for pictures of the ocean, but do not want any sunset pictures included in your results, use these parameters => **ocean -sunset** 

### Fuzzy Search
You can add a tilde(~) symbol to the end of a word, to automatically check for words that have a different spelling. For example, if you search for words that are spelled differently in American and British spelling, it might be useful to add the tilde symbol => **colorful~** or **labour~**

#### This is just the tip of the iceberg, you can find many more advanced search operators when you read this [blog post by Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/en/blog/posts/advanced-image-search-on-pixabay-46/).

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# <center>Pixabay API</center>
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<div class="pull-left"><center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/LZKS4F0.png" /><br/><em><a href="https://pixabay.com/api/docs/">Source: Pixabay API Screenshot</a></em></center></div>
You may make use of Pixabay's API if you're looking to search and retrieve public domain images from their website, to use in your own projects. <br><br>
They do ask you to include a link back to Pixabay, but other than that it's completely free. You're limited to 5000 requests per hour and permanent hotlinking is not allowed. <br><br>
The Pixabay API is a RESTful interface. Check out Pixabay's <a href="https://pixabay.com/api/docs/">API documentation here</a>
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# <center>The Pixabay Community</center>
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Pixabay isn't exactly known as a social media platform, but it does have some features that allow for interaction between artists and fans. Every artist on Pixabay has their own profile page, which you can access by clicking on the username of the artist and navigating to the 'About Me' section of their profile. 

Usually they will at least have all the cameras listed that they've used and sometimes people also add a small biography. Some artists will also share their professional website, if you wish to hire them for additional services. 

[Pixabay Forum](https://pixabay.com/en/forum/) is a very active discussion board where you can interact with other members. If you ever have any questions regarding a photo, this is the place where you want to ask. 

<center>https://i.imgur.com/Xb1gLDq.png</center><center>*Source: Screenshot of Pixabay forum*</center>

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