One of the most fantastic things about building a suite of tools around a community, instead of the other way around, is that users are always willing to pitch in and help out others with tutorials and forum assistance. It's our plan to build our applications with a very deep set of community tools, built around forums, wiki-documentation, chat, user-made tutorials and sharable workspaces.
Aviary super star Meowza has already begun paving the way with more than a dozen "photo-phixing" tutorials for other users of Aviary's image editor, Phoenix. Got a specific question on how to make a technique in Phoenix? Ask and ye shall receive.
Unzipping a Kitty
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Chocolatizing a Statue
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Cyborg Frog
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Smoking Woman
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12 more tutorials after the jump!
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Editor's Note: with the launch of Adobe Photoshop Express, came a flurry of concerned emails from friends and family asking "Have you seen this? Are you concerned for Aviary?" My response each time was 'no - they cater to different markets.' They serve red-eye reducer consumers. We serve more advanced hobbyist creators.
But pictures are worth one thousand words, so we asked Aviary superstar Meowza to do an actual comparison against some of the more well known Flash web apps (Photoshop Express, Picnik, Splashup, Fotoflexer and Aviary) to see whether or not he could recreate one of his fantastic Aviary creations.
Meowza's full review after the jump.
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At Aviary, we like to ask the hard-hitting questions most journalists shy away from. Most importantly: We can put man on the moon, but we don't have frigging flying cars yet?!
Luckily, we don't just identify the problems - we also solve them.
This time around Aviary's resident industrial designer Meowza has drawn up a plan to unclog the world's highways and put flying metal projectiles in the hands of every man, woman and child.
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We had so much fun playing with industrial car design, that we made another video as well:
Here's another example of Meowza changing an already sleek design by Ben Messmer of our friends at Local Motors.
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These works made heavy use of color adjustments, blend modes, painting, transforming and sourcing.
Kudos to Parliament and Arcade Fire for the musical accompaniments!
Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
BONUS: Here are some Worth1000 concepts for more flying cars!
Parcopresis, the fear of using a public toilet, is a serious affliction that affects millions of people. And we at Aviary, know there is good reason: Toilets are one of the most favored hiding spots for evil robots from other galaxies. We finally have video proof.
This time around Aviary's resident plumber Meowza has located classified evidence in a secret goverment restroom.
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I, for one, welcome our new porcelain overlords.
This work made heavy use of lighting, painting, transforming and sourcing.
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Kudos to RudyEvil for the awesome Transformers remix!
Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
We've been getting a ton of press at Worth1000 over our Ultimate Celebrity contest, where the goal is to take the best physical features of multiple celebrities and merge them into one super celebrity. One of the requests we got from a prominent newspaper was to prove that Aviary (a web app) could really be used to create an ultimate celebrity. Piece of cake.
This time around Aviary's resident plastic surgeon Meowza performs illegal skin grafts on Catherine Zeta-Jones, Keira Knightly, Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron, creating the beautiful Catheinize Zightly-Jeliens. I hope his malpractice insurance is paid up.
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This work made heavy use of painting, blending and layering effects.
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Kudos to INXS for providing the beautiful accompaniment!
Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
Here's one more video of Phoenix, our powerful Flash-based image editor to tide you over for the week:
This time around Aviary's resident mad scientist Meowza experiments with illegal genetic cross breeding. For shame, Meowza. For shame.
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This work made heavy use of painting and layering effects.
Kudos to Alvin and the Chipmunks for providing the soundtrack!
But wait, there's more! Here are some more Meowza experiments on innocent animals: Someone please call PeTA already.
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Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
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Update The frog image was dugg and the traffic seems to be slowing the site, so we're redirecting traffic over to this blog post which can handle the requests better (and also contains the cyborg frog). You should be able to access the frog image by clicking the sources. Sorry the extra step!
Maybe it's because he's got a sweet tooth, but Meowza simply can't stop turning things into Chocolate. He's like the Prince Midas of Hershey Bars.
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Kudos to Christina Aguilera for providing the retro-funky Candyman sound track. Man, I'm getting hungry.
Here are some more Meowza chocolatized works, for your viewing (and tasting) pleasure.
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Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
After some of the outcry over our last post showing Hillary Clinton shedding her skin in Aviary's online image editor, we had to prove to everyone that we are non-partisan and love both candidates. In fact, we love them SO much, we figured we'd make them mate and produce a love child super-candidate.
Meowza and Daft Punk team up to show just how much better off the world would be if enemies mated with each other, with hilarious results.
For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the beta invitation at http://a.viary.com.
We are proud to announce that we have just released a special patent-pending V filter for Aviary's image editor.
Watch the video to see this filter in action. We used Hillary Clinton as our test subject.
The result:
Update: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the beta invitation at http://a.viary.com.
This video is insane. Much like the singer (zing!).
The most amazing thing is that this took the legendary Meowza literally 21 minutes to do in Phoenix, Aviary's image editor. It was a rush job, done largely for the purpose of showing everybody how a photo-realistic image edit takes place from start to finish, and it still came out amazing.
21 minutes! Crazy.
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