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16 awesome Aviary tutorials

By Avi Muchnick on April 11, 2008 | 42 comments

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 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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Alien Overlords


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Correct Shadow Perspective


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Aging a Photograph


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Making a Snow Storm


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Popping Elements with Dodge and Burn


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Aging a Boy (or How we Faked Dodo)


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Genetic Cross-Breeding


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How to Precision Select Custom Shapes


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Another tutorial on the same topic

Masking fur by Ziaphra


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Using Blend Modes; Having Fun with Liquify and Mating Celebrities





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Comments

Posted by Maury on 2008-04-15 12:02:50

These were awesome - thanks for posting these!

Posted by Matt on 2008-04-15 16:50:31

Aviary is awesome, I can't wait to try some of these.

Posted by Roleplay on 2008-04-15 17:12:12

Wow, great stuff! I'll be making a followup post on our forum about it pretty shortly... Thanks for all the great work you guys have done!

Posted by Chacar0n on 2008-04-15 20:50:37

Thanks for the post. Very helpful.

Posted by Chacar0n on 2008-04-15 20:50:39

Thanks for the post. Very helpful.

Posted by pilobilus on 2008-04-15 21:52:52

Equally applicable in Photoshop or the GIMP. These days, an editor is an editor, be it way expensive, free software, or an online service. Just starting out? The biggest question is, which is more likely to be conveniently available to you wherever you go and whatever you do? Either way around, there will be NO figuring out how to do that neat stuff without reading the manuals and doing the turorials, and ultimately the quality of your work depends a lot more on YOU than on your weapon of choice. :o)

Posted by Chacar0n on 2008-04-16 01:53:42

Thanks for the post. Very helpful.

Posted by Skeli on 2008-04-16 02:36:17

Thanks so much...I hope to learn a lot from these.

Posted by Alex on 2008-04-16 03:29:29

Some great tutorials there

Posted by Alex on 2008-04-16 03:29:31

Some great tutorials there

Posted by umesh shebe on 2008-04-16 04:08:11

Unzipping a Kitty is my favorite, Mindblowing work. all the best.

Posted by Dirceu Veiga on 2008-04-16 04:57:00

Unzipping a Kitty is really funny. Thank you for sharing so great tutorials.

Posted by ash on 2008-04-16 07:18:31

this is a wonderful tutorial
thanks alot

Posted by jenni on 2008-04-16 09:06:36

thanks for sharing your wonderful tutorials!

Posted by Mason on 2008-04-16 23:00:15

I sent and early bird thingy to them . When do I get an email back?

Posted by dee on 2008-04-17 23:59:17

This is the most amazing product i have ever seen. I can't wait to try this out for myself.

Posted by Technology Watch on 2008-04-20 05:47:51

Amazing effects! Loved the post!

Posted by Lee on 2008-04-21 17:50:19

Fantastic stuff! Going to have to set aside a day to go through these

Posted by Laura on 2008-04-25 12:33:46

I LOVE IT!!
TANK U VERY MUCH TANK U!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by samantha on 2008-04-30 06:56:05

in unzipping kitty i cant figure out how 2 do the very 1st part where u move the top part of the head and paste it 2 a new layer

can some1 explain it EASILY please

Posted by Romain on 2008-05-02 10:27:32

Thanks a lot !

Posted by Geoserv on 2008-05-07 08:24:20

STUMBLED! Those are some pretty sweet images. VOTED for these images at: http://www.newsdots.com/tutorials/16-awesome-aviary-tutorials/

Posted by Suhas Chavan on 2008-05-08 07:29:02

Very helpful.
Making a Snow Storm is too good, 'Aging a Photograph' as well.

Thanks a bunch...!

Posted by David on 2008-05-14 08:31:59

Great works dude! Keep it up

Posted by FireBlade on 2008-05-18 13:23:09

too good ! ..though i haven't gone through them properly yet ! will do that soon n then post some more compliments ! :D

Posted by FireBlade on 2008-05-18 13:23:10

too good ! ..though i haven't gone through them properly yet ! will do that soon n then post some more compliments ! :D

Posted by wilson on 2008-05-19 00:48:42

aviary is nice.... very222..... NICE but anyone know that website have master tutorial like aviary???

Posted by abeen on 2008-05-19 03:55:10

wow collection of photos, i really liked the "smoking a woman" image. abeen

Posted by Luke on 2008-06-03 14:31:25

great stuff! does it take long until i get an invitation?

Posted by Luke on 2008-06-03 14:32:10

great stuff! does it take long until i get an invitation?

Posted by gazduire web on 2008-09-10 03:52:32

Nice work. I like this tutorial.Thanks.

Posted by Filmfront: Film, TV & Kino on 2008-09-12 07:54:31

really awsome!

Posted by on 2008-10-18 08:09:03

it's so great.thank you very much

Posted by ????? on 2008-12-20 08:29:28

I have been following you for a couple of months not (sometimes quietly) and I really admire all that you have done.

Posted by medyum on 2009-08-23 09:09:52

Unzipping a Kitty is my favorite, Mindblowing work. all the best.

Posted by Ashley Adams : Postcard Printing on 2009-08-28 07:43:04

These are some real nice photoshop tutorials. I just loved “Smoking Woman”. Definitely give it a try. Thanks for posting. Cheers

Posted by telefon dinleme on 2009-09-21 20:12:35

Kitty bir dosya açma gerçekten komik. So great tutorials paylasimi için tesekkür ederiz.

Posted by medyum on 2009-10-30 01:18:26

tnk you for all

Posted by medyum on 2009-10-30 01:19:13

tnks

Posted by medyum on 2009-11-04 03:08:45

Thank you very much for everything

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