Aviary’s Phoenix, a web-based image editing application

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)

Tags: aviary, content creation tools, image editing, phoenix, photoshop

12 Responses to “Aviary’s Phoenix, a web-based image editing application”

toivo wrote a comment on February 28, 2008

I want one. :)

Marie Gee wrote a comment on February 28, 2008

me too, pretty please?

looks great!

Thema Felix wrote a comment on February 28, 2008

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.

rHOnDO Hunghi wrote a comment on February 28, 2008

Dang … too late ;-)

Gaynor Gritzi wrote a comment on February 28, 2008

Oh missed it- I could use an interesting music generator - let us know how it works.

Vint Falken wrote a comment on February 29, 2008

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. ;)

Alenouel wrote a comment on March 12, 2008

Are there still aveiable the invites. I need one.
Please!!!!!

Nguyen wrote a comment on March 15, 2008

i would like one.

Thema Felix wrote a comment on March 17, 2008

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!

Vint Falken wrote a comment on March 18, 2008

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.)

Nikki wrote a comment on April 7, 2008