tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2011:/1/tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720- 2011-08-16T17:25:12Z Comments for Aviary Releases API: Add Image Editing to Your Website Movable Type 4.35-en tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720 2009-04-20T19:29:57Z 2009-04-20T22:33:25Z Aviary Releases API: Add Image Editing to Your Website Aviary, a sophisticated online collaborative image editing tool suite, today released a much awaited API. The interface will allow any 3rd party website to add image editing tools right into its existing offerings. This technology could quietly change the way many people experience images around the web. Aviary's products are stunning and we expect that... Marshall Kirkpatrick http://www.readwriteweb.com Aviary, a sophisticated online collaborative image editing tool suite, today released a much awaited API. The interface will allow any 3rd party website to add image editing tools right into its existing offerings. This technology could quietly change the way many people experience images around the web.

Aviary's products are stunning and we expect that many people will be very surprised to find new image editing tools now available on their favorite websites.

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Aviary is a fascinating company. In addition to offering multiple tools that effectively offer a collaborative version of Photoshop on the web, for free or with a subscription plan, the company just published a book about how to create visual effects using its software.

While other image editing services would form selective partnerships with a handful of big image hosting websites and then issue a big press release, Aviary is different. They've opened a free API, made a blog post, and will likely make a much wider impact than traditional business development methods would probably have allowed.

A new API makes perfect sense in this context and we're excited to see how other sites decide to integrate it.

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]]> 2009-07-23T11:04:52Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720-comment:134693 Comment from Avi on 2009-04-21 Avi http://www.aviary.com Jonas, thanks for the comment. Each application has different strengths (for example Aviary allows artists to save their layered files and interact with 4 different application types including vector editing). That being said we are closing the speed gap in our newest upcoming release. Not an easy task because Pixlr is really an excellent tool! :)

]]> 2009-04-21T21:49:18Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720-comment:134684 Comment from David on 2009-04-21 David Today I went over Aviary's API, as well as Picnik's, and a couple of other services. And I am not impressed with what they offer.

While their apps are great at bringing in offline functionality online, their API's are basically limited to allowing developers to link to the app with an image and a couple of other parameters, move the user to the photo editing app to do their work, and then transfer back the user from the editor towards the original app.

The experience would be much more immersive if the third party application can seemlessly embed a subset of the image editing functionality (whatever is needed for the task) into the app. That would make for a smooth flow and reduce the confusion of being faced with an avalanche of features.

]]> 2009-04-21T20:41:59Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720-comment:134681 Comment from jonas on 2009-04-21 jonas Ah use the services from pixlr.com and the pixlr API instead, loads up 10 times faster and has more advanced adjustments etc.

]]> 2009-04-21T20:34:22Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720-comment:134614 Comment from Josh Patterson on 2009-04-21 Josh Patterson http://jpatterson.floe.tv Will people use this? They already do, check out the community surrounding the site. We've already got a demo implementation of their API on our beta mashup project floe.tv, and it really is slick.

The future of the web is about dynamic discovery and auto-wire-up of data and services based around your identity. Technologies like this and specs like OAuth and LRDD are steps in that direction. Aviary really has a solid product going here, and their openness to integrate with the greater web will yield them larger returns than traditional sandbox systems.

]]> 2009-04-21T13:50:07Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720-comment:134604 Comment from Krish on 2009-04-21 Krish http://krishnan.co.in/blog/post/Free-online-image-editor-for-your-website.aspx i just tried it
here is a demo :http://krishnan.co.in/aviary/

and source code for that demo: http://krishnan.co.in/blog/post/Free-online-image-editor-for-your-website.aspx

]]> 2009-04-21T11:34:08Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720-comment:134582 Comment from Soveci on 2009-04-21 Soveci http://www.metpordekor.com thx

]]> 2009-04-21T07:36:44Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720-comment:134576 Comment from Soveci on 2009-04-20 Soveci http://www.metpordekor.com thats nice..

]]> 2009-04-21T06:59:39Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720-comment:134574 Comment from Soveci on 2009-04-20 Soveci http://www.metpordekor.com thats cool

]]> 2009-04-21T06:49:57Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14720-comment:134514 Comment from Natetronn on 2009-04-20 Natetronn http://natetronn.com This sounds interesting! Going to check it out for sure. You think people will use it?

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