Thanks to today's launch of the Google Apps Marketplace, you can now use Aviary directly within Google Apps for free! Learn more here
If you use Google Apps for Domains or Google Apps for Enterprise, you can now add Aviary to your apps account (for all users) effective immediately. It will then appear right in Google's universal navigation bar.
Note: Aviary can only be added by the domain administrator, so please make sure to tell whomever is in charge of your organization.
To add Aviary to your Google Apps account, click the button below!
The awesomely fun YouTube video!
The Aviary team made this fun video to introduce Aviary to Google Apps users and help celebrate the launch. Awesome job to everyone involved, especially Meowza and Mpeutz!
The awesomely fun press release!
Aviary Now Available through the Google Apps Marketplace
Google Doc users can now easily access Aviary's rich image and audio editing capabilities
NEW YORK (Mar. 9, 2010) – Aviary today announced its suite of design apps is now available in the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. Aviary is a feature-rich web application suite that allows users to edit and create images, vectors and audio files from anywhere in the world with just a browser and an internet connection. Now with native integration with Google Apps™, Aviary allows any Google Apps™ user to edit images and audio for marketing materials, take product screenshots for websites, create logos, and more.
"Aviary is committed to bringing the power of cloud computing to anyone with any multimedia design needs, so integrating with Google Apps was a logical choice for us," says Avi Muchnick, company CEO. "By adding Aviary to the Google Apps Marketplace, we've made it extremely easy for Google Apps customers to access a powerful multimedia design web application suite that works seamlessly with their existing document collaboration platform using OpenID."
"We are very happy to have Aviary in the Google Apps Marketplace," notes Scott McMullan, Partner Lead for Google Apps. "Through the Google Apps Marketplace, software vendors like Aviary are helping us build a rich ecosystem of integrated apps that seamlessly work with and extend Google Apps to meet more business needs. The ability to edit images and audio directly from Google Docs is the kind of innovation we're excited to see coming from our developer community."
Aviary, Inc makes seven lightweight, powerful design applications that can be accessed through the browser. By integrating directly with Google Apps, Aviary is extending the productivity of the Google Docs suite by adding collaborative multimedia capabilities including image editing, audio editing, color management and more. Aviary will have free introductory pricing for Enterprise users. To learn more, visit www.aviary.com/googleenterprise.
The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy for more than 2 million Google Apps customers to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services. By integrating with user account and application data stored in Google Apps, these cloud applications provide a simpler user experience, increase business efficiency, and reduce administrative overhead. To learn more, visit google.com/enterprise/marketplace.
Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations. With Google Apps, users can use applications such as Gmail™ webmail service, Google Talk™ instant messaging service, Google Calendar™ calendaring service, Google Docs™ program, Google Sites™ web application, and Google Video™ for business on their own domain to work together more effectively. Because it is all hosted by Google, there's no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.
Aviary, Inc. is a pioneer of a creative application suite in the cloud. With a suite of digital creation and editing software available as a service, Aviary offers a simple and cost-effective solution for anyone with multimedia editing needs – from graphic design to audio editing – to create and edit work right in their browser. Based in Long Island, NY, Aviary is backed by Bezos Expeditions and Spark Capital. For more information, visit www.aviary.com.
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Google, Google Apps Marketplace, Google Apps, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Video are trademarks of Google Inc.
Aviary is a trademark of Aviary Inc.
The awesomely fun reminder to install Google Apps!
Have you ever wondered how many designers, illustrators, art directors, photographers and other creative people come up with amazing works of art? Most of these ideas come from inspirations that can come from a variety of sources such as: Food, Fashion, Nature, Other artists, Found Objects, Photography, etc.
For this post I will answer a few questions:
1. How do I get inspired?
2. What materials/devices do I use to record them?
3. How do I organize them?
Continue reading full post ...
Crazy blue faces, kitty lookin' eyes, everyone loves "Avatar"!
Okay, I admit I know nothing about the movie. But I do know the characters sure do look neat! And I figured with the Oscars just around the corner, it would be a fun idea to try to take a photo and turn it into a Na'vi inspired character.
In our latest tutorial, I'll be showing you how to turn a portrait of a young lady into an "Avatar" inspired character.
Click to read the full tutorial!
Not the kind of "Avatar" you were looking for? Check out our template and tutorial on how to create community avatars over here.
Aviary user @Avigeee proclaimed on Twitter her amazing invitations and crafty cards she created using Aviary.
Here is her incredibly cool wedding invitation:
And her one-of-a-kind procession card:
She got both the invitation and procession card printed at Publicide Website, where you can check out her work as well as some of the other letterpress and offset printing jobs they've done.
Have you used Aviary for invitations? Send us an invite to your next party!
With all the hype surrounding Apple's latest device, I thought it would be great promotion if we held a draw for a free iPad!
Did I say draw for a free iPad? I meant we should draw an iPad for free.
In Aviary's latest tutorial, I'll be showing you how to create an iPad illustration in Aviary's free online Vector Editor.
Click to read the full tutorial
Try it out yourself! A free iPad illustration tutorial that anyone can try on almost any system that supports Flash. (Sorry iPad owners.)
We wanted to show you the amazing emails that Aviary user CureThriftShop is creating using Aviary tools. 
According to Bianca Caampued, who runs PR & marketing for the Cure Thrift Shop, "Cure Thrift Shop started using Aviary because while other email templates were confusing, Aviary was easy to figure out. We are planning to do a lot of editorial type layouts and emails like this for our site CureThriftShop.com."
We are really excited to see what else they create!
This is exactly the kind of stuff we love to hear about Aviary! So what are you using Aviary for?
Aviary member & Etsy seller Leslie Hamer created some awesome banners for her shop using Aviary's image editor. Excerpted from her blog with permission:
Customize any of these Etsy banners with your shop name and info quickly and easily using Aviary in four simple steps:
1. Click the "Customize this banner"; link under the banner you liked to launch Aviary.
2. Select the text you wanted to edit in its layer on the right, and use the text tool (the letter A icon in the left hand toolbar) to type your new text. You can also edit fonts and change the text colors if you please.
3. Select ‘File < Export Image’ and follow the steps to save the image to your desktop.
4. Then, on Etsy go to "Your Etsy" and then "Appearance." Upload your newly created banner for all the world to see!
Customize this banner
Want to make your own etsy banner using Aviary? Follow this handy tutorial.
Our hosting company has notified us of some major outages in one of their bandwidth providers. They are working to get service restored but until that happens, Aviary might run a bit slower than what you're used to. We apologize for the inconvenience and will let you know when things are back to normal via an edit here and Twitter.
Edit: As of late last night, our bandwidth provider informed us that things should be back to normal!
Valentine’s day is fast approaching. And what better way to say, “I’m thinking of you a little bit.” than with the gift of an e-card?
But hold the phones! This isn’t just any old e-card! That’s right, you can send personalized e-cards using Aviary’s suite of image editing tools!
Here is a collection of free e-card templates for you to use and send to all your lovers this Valentine’s Day.
To send one, select any of the following cards, then click the “Send to Friends” link found on the right hand side of the page to send it to your lover! (Separate email addresses with commas to send to multiple lovers.)
"I picked you” by meowza on Aviary
”Tweet Nothingness” by meowza on Aviary
”Zombie Love” by meowza on Aviary
You can also use select the “Open in Image Editor” link to edit the card to your heart’s content.
To add your own text to the card, simply disable the Text layer and type in your own custom message using the Text Tool.
Or, select the File > Import File function to import your own photographs into the templates for maximum personalizing fun!
”His heart” by meowza on Aviary
”Her heart” by meowza on Aviary
Here are some more free templates for you to use, generously provided by Aviary user, jeffdoute.
"Will you be mine ecard" by jeffdoute on Aviary
”Valentine Hearts” by jeffdoute on Aviary
Or make your own from scratch using any of Aviary’s free online tools!
Go on, show that special someone that they're not too bad this Valentines Day!
Happy Valentines!
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