As one of the private beta testers, I was sent an email yesterday by Aviary, a more than just an online picture editor, that it’s out of private beta. Now everyone can try and use Aviary.
Aviary is a free online service that allows you to edit images online and add nice effects to your photos, without the need of having a Photoshop (or other image editing tools) installed on your computer.
Aviary Products
Aviary Peacock (Visual Laboratory) enables you to create amazing 3D effects to your images or you can even create from scratch.
Aviary Phoenix (Image Editor) enables you to edit your photos with all the Photoshop features you ever need.
Aviary Toucan (Color Palettes) enables you to pick and match colors from your uploaded images or create new color palettes.
Aviary Raven (Vector Editor) enables you to create a fully scalable vector images for your logo and design needs. This is still in Beta.
All of these services come for free but you can always go Pro to get a full access to more features, unlimited storage, test unreleased applications, technical support, and others.
Aviary interface is smooth and elegant; meaning, you shouldn’t have a problem in playing around with their range of products.
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and now, i can edit my picture everywhere with this tool, thanks for share a nice tool
As long as you have internet connection, that is!
Nice Review!
I wonder how they contacted you ?
I read it somewhere on a forum that it’s accepting beta testers (this was months ago, though). Most of other review requests that I got came from this blog’s Contact form
I have been ‘learning’ Photoshop for over a year now. I think I know less now than what I did at the beginning. Anything that is easier than Photoshop can only help me. I will go investigate.
Well if you already know Photoshop, than I’m pretty sure Photoshop can offer more than Aviary!
Thats cool, wasnt aware of many online photo editing sites. Thanks for sharing. I’ll go take a look.
There are a few out there, but I haven’t found one with such a beautiful interface & functionality as Aviary
I tried it out for an hour or so, it’s still hard like photoshop. What’s funny is I took a credit course in photoshop couple of years ago, but really forgetting everything.
I’m a powerpoint expert, not photoshop.
Well apart from resizing and playing around with the brightness and contrast, I’m much more clueless than you, Alan
would you recommend this over pinik?
-jack
Hm sorry I’ve never hard (and tried) Pink before
Thanks for your review, it’s very usefull for me especially when I use internet in public place (Indonesia : warnet). Thanks
Another image manipulation program which is free is http://www.gimp.org/. Not tried it yet but it supposed to be very good.
Gimp rocks
It’s probably the best free image editor out there. I’m using it in the office as we can’t afford to purchase Adobe Photoshop. It has to be installed on your machine though, whereas Aviary doesn’t