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 many people will be very surprised to find new image editing tools now available on their favorite websites.
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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This sounds interesting! Going to check it out for sure. You think people will use it?
thats cool
thats nice..
thx
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
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.
Ah use the services from pixlr.com and the pixlr API instead, loads up 10 times faster and has more advanced adjustments etc.
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.
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! :)
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