So, you’ve created your masterpiece and looking to give your image that extra little something?
Look no further!
In this tutorial, I’ll be offering you a series of mini-tutorials with various practical and fun finishing touch effects that can be applied to any of your fantastic Aviary creations to make them even more super fantastic-er!
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In honor of St. Patty's Day, we wanted to highlight some awesome Green creations.
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Aviary for Education: Exciting Integration with Haiku Learning
We are very excited to announce our new integration with Haiku Learning Management System (LMS). Haiku is a learning management system designed to bring the advantages of the web to students and teachers. We couldn't be happier seeing Aviary's powerful tools embedded right into Haiku classes.
According to Brian Falcon Executive Vice President of Haiku, "with Aviary, we take one step closer to our end goal of a download-free world. Teachers and students will now be able to create, edit, submit, and assess images and drawings without ever uploading a file from their desktop. This is exciting stuff!"
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Try it out yourself! A free iPad illustration tutorial that anyone can try on almost any system that supports Flash. (Sorry iPad owners.)
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