Aviary’s Phoenix, a web-based image editing application
February 28, 2008 12:06 pm
We’ve seen those before, right? Paint-like on-line, web-based image editing applications. But never have I seen something like Phoenix before: it has layers, overlay modes, layer functions (drop shadow, blur, bevel, …), efficient gradients, different brushes, artistic filters, and so on and so on and so on … .
On top of that it saves overviews of your work stages - and of course, you can load previous ones -, you can access your files from anywhere and share them with about anyone. Share them means not just that they can look at it, but that they can actually allow other people to edit the layered file!
At the moment, Phoenix allows you to export to .jpg .png .bmp .tiff and some other file formats to your hard drive. No .tga, but .bmp will do just as well, no?
An example of a quick test drive with Phoenix:
(I was inspired by the beta invites,
which they call ‘early bird’ previews)
More examples on the Aviary website a.viary.com. Make sure to take a look at Meowza’s mechanical frog!
I have 3 beta invites for the Phoenix image editing application still available. Who wants them? Just leave a comment here with a valid e-mail address and I’ll send the invite to that address. All taken. Look into the comments for people who can get you some.
There’s a whole suite of Aviary AIR applications planned, - All of our tools are based right in your browser or as downloadable AIR applications. Our tools all communicate and relate to each other. To illustrate an example: You can import a swatch from Toucan into Phoenix, while doing complex bitmap processing of a 3D object developed in Hummingbird. Finally, you can take your finished artwork and lay it out in Owl as the DVD artwork for a music CD you and your friends put together in Roc and Myna and offer it for sale in our marketplace, Hawk. - as there are:
- Phoenix - Image editor
- Toucan - Color swatches and palettes creator
- Peacock - Computer algorithm-based pattern generator
- Raven - Vector editor
- Hummingbird - 3D Modeller and skinner
- Myna - audio editor
- Roc - Music generator
- Starling - Video editor
- Owl - Desktop publishing layout editor
- Penguin - Word processing software geared towards creative writers
- Pigeon - Painting simulator
- Tern - Terrain generator (minitool)
- Horus - Font editor
- Woodpecker - Smart image resizer using seam carving (minitool)
- Rookery - A free, unlimited distributed file system network that anyone can connect to and store data in. It also powers our file search engine.
- Hawk - Digital content marketplace
- Crane - Custom image product creator
- Eagle - A smart online application that can identify complex data about an image based on the pixel patterns (i.e. which specific camera an image originally came from)
12 Responses to “Aviary’s Phoenix, a web-based image editing application”
I want one. :)
me too, pretty please?
looks great!
Well sure, Vint, if you’re offering! Wow, it sounds like the temporary answer to my recent loss of photoshop. Thanks for giving an explanation of the application. I’d love to get my hands on that.
Dang … too late ;-)
Oh missed it- I could use an interesting music generator - let us know how it works.
Invites send out. Have some patience, sometimes they take a while to ‘hatch’ (end up in your e-mail).
rH0nDo, I think maybe the three that I send the invitations too, will get some themselves (not sure, though). Maybe you can harass them? ;)
And Gaynor, I don’t think Roc is in testing-mode yet. I’ll blog about it if once it gets there, probably. ;)
Are there still aveiable the invites. I need one.
Please!!!!!
i would like one.
Since we can’t view each other’s email addresses in this comment exchange, a few people can come to my websit (my name is linked) and leave a comment. Then I will have your email and can invite you. I have 4 invites to give out!
Nguyen and Alenouel, Thema Felix has some invites available. You can contact her at virtualversion.wordpress.com. Thema, thank you for letting this know! (And I can see email addresses, so I’ll notify, but for obvious reasons these are not shown on the blog.)
I would love to get an invite. I’ve been wanting to try this tol out since I found out about it. :3
My email is velvet_ninja(at)hotmail.com
I’d love one of these! Thanks in advance!
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