Definitely not for the birds...the Aviary online media manipulation suite

April 25, 2009 7:14 AM

Worth1000 arguably the best place for photoshops on the web, has released their newest creative effort...an online set of image (and eventually audio and video) tools called Aviary (a review here). And look at what it can do (when I looked, there was a three-mouthed monkey - that's definitely awesome)!
posted by Kickstart70 (11 comments total)

Your profile pic is worth a thousand words, dude.
posted by gman at 7:23 AM on April 25, 2009

(sorta) previously 1 2, cf.
posted by kliuless at 7:34 AM on April 25, 2009

Your profile pic is worth a thousand words, dude.

"Occupation: Sysadmin"

Just as I suspected.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:49 AM on April 25, 2009 [1 favorite]

So is Aviary trying to be an on-line productivity suite?
posted by oddman at 10:43 AM on April 25, 2009

"when I looked, there was a three-mouthed monkey"

Big deal, I've seen a monkey with five asses.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 10:55 AM on April 25, 2009

Your profile pic is worth a thousand words, dude.

It does explain "there are no other MeFi users nearby."

Aviary and Raven are really freaking cool.
posted by rokusan at 1:55 PM on April 25, 2009

While these applications are undeniably awesome for web apps, I personally don't understand the reason for a pay as you go service. I guess it would be nice to bounce ideas off of people with similar interests, but if you were that serious about your work, why would you want to use wanna be applications and not the real deal? You can export output as a jpeg or gif but I bet the raw files are not compatible with current desktop apps. And if you think the terrific gallery archives are representative of what the average guy can do with these apps, think again. They were created by regulars from the Worth1000 site who are Photoshop experts. They could have done the same with MSPaint. Your mileage *will* vary.
posted by digsrus at 4:03 PM on April 25, 2009

Aviary is better than MSPaint for a lot of stuff when Photoshop-Illustrator arent available, like in a corporate environment. But it still feels too much like a webapp and is not intuitive when going from adobe stuff in my limited experience.

I bet it will give adobe a run for their money in a year or two though.
posted by ejoey at 8:40 PM on April 25, 2009

Your profile pic is worth a thousand words, dude.

Halloween is nasty drug.

(thanks)
posted by Kickstart70 at 10:00 PM on April 25, 2009

Keep going. I said a thousand.
posted by gman at 5:37 AM on April 26, 2009

...on-line productivity suite

Do all these words even make sense together?
posted by Avelwood at 10:17 AM on April 26, 2009