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Placid provides its users with a simple studio interface, allowing them to upload their own images or choose from stock photos, and begin creating custom templates. The colors, layout, words, and image features are customizable with simple drop-down menus or drag-and-drop selections. Placid has a large selection of custom templates to make getting started easier. The creation process outputs images, videos, and PDFs, ensuring added business value in many different areas.

Focused on a team experience, Placid makes it easy for your entire team to collaborate on creations, offer input and feedback throughout the design process, and create end products that everyone is satisfied with. Because of the template approach, multiple images can be created with the same theme, making this a great option to produce a cohesive visual series.

Software Strengths

Placid takes the hassle out of the editing process by incorporating auto-resizing and alignment features, as well as out-of-the-box filters and other effects. It easily integrates with no-code automation tools like Parabola so that your entire team can take advantage of its power. One of the best parts is that once a custom template is created, it can be saved, iterated upon, and used again and again, offering more long-term value.

With one of the longest lists of integration partners, Placid is great if your organization uses other popular content tools. These integrations include Airtable, Ghost, Make, Webflow, WordPress, and Zapier. Placid can be used to automate and optimize social media marketing, e-commerce advertisements, and even UGC content. Keeping up with marketing demands is challenging, but with Placid’s support, businesses can streamline asset creation.

Software Limits

Although there are many simple and accessible features available through Placid’s studio, it still requires integrations with other platforms to offer a truly no-code experience. With Rest API calls or URL APIs, basic programming skills are required to curate the ultimate end results. With more complex image and video outputs, the programming lift required will also be more complex.

Placid will pull both dynamic and static content from a website or other source and input it into the templates you created, but you do still have to create and customize the templates first. While Plaid cuts a lot of time from the overall process, true image automation is achieved when using Switchboard Canvas.

Lastly, Placid’s “credit” system is a bit complicated for most users. Instead of allowing a number of “requests” like most tools, different types of projects require a different number of “credits.” For instance, 1 image requires 1 credit, 1 second of video requires 10 credits, and 1 PDF requires 2 credits. This can make it challenging to find the right plan and budget the creation limits properly.