ReadWriteWeb

Aviary's Talon: An Awesome Firefox Plug-in For Easy Image Editing

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 10, 2009 12:52 PM / 5 Comments

Aviary, the company behind a suite of collaborative web-based image editing software, has released a Firefox plug-in that's a must-have. Create an account at Aviary, download the plug-in called Talon, and within minutes you'll be joyfully clipping full and partial screenshots into the very full-featured Aviary web editor. It's so easy, but at the same time so full-featured, that it's a real pleasure to use.

We learned about the un-publicized and experimental plug-in from Brad Linder at Download Squad this afternoon. Check out the screenshots below, then get on over to the Firefox plug-ins directory and give it a try for yourself.

aviarscreenpopup.jpg

Above, is one set of options that pop-up, on right click, with Talon installed. Below, is a screenshot of the entirely web based editing interface after a screen grab. It would be nice if this plug-in had a Skitch-like ability to upload to Flickr easily, but that's not the point of Aviary. It is significantly faster to use Skitch locally, but the markup options are woefully meager. They are different products and Skitch is Mac only. Anyone using Firefox can use Talon.

I've been looking for a way to get Aviary into my routine and this plug-in makes that very easy.

aviarscreenfinal.jpg

Comments

Subscribe to comments for this post OR Subscribe to comments for all ReadWriteWeb posts

  1. This looks like a plugin I'll want to have for my FF. I am always saving images from the web. Being able to clip-n-save is really great.

    Posted by: Fleshlight Reviews Author Profile Page | June 10, 2009 6:56 PM



  2. I use Jet Screenshot (http://www.jetscreenshot.com) for the same purposes. It works faster and with ANY browser.
    Anyway, thanks for great article :)

    Posted by: kasimcev | June 11, 2009 6:59 AM



  3. Aviary's Talon: A Drool-Worthy Firefox Plug-in For Easy Image Editing http://bit.ly/wh0No [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/2107958307]

    Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick Posted on FriendFeed   | June 11, 2009 12:11 PM



  4. Definitely adding this plugin to my FF. This is awesome!

    Posted by: free virtual world for kids | June 12, 2009 3:32 AM



  5. Anybody compared this to FireShot add-on in Firefox? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648

    P.Arora
    http://omture.com

    Posted by: P.Arora | June 15, 2009 2:48 PM



Leave a comment

Optional: Sign in with Connect Facebook   Sign in with Twitter Twitter   Sign in with OpenID OpenID  |  
RWW SPONSORS


FOLLOW @RWW ON TWITTER

ReadWriteWeb on Facebook



TEXT LINK ADS