Comments on: First Impressions: Aviary App Suite

By: Benton Crane

Benton Crane — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:59:24 +0000

Thanks for pointing me to Aviary way back when. I’ve been loving it.

By: titanium_geek

titanium_geek — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:06:08 +0000

trawling for comments, eh? :)

(Don’t send me an invite, I’m on the road at the moment and wouldn’t be able to try it out properly. )

A thought: on skimming this article I had no idea what the various programs of Aviary were for. I guess it’s a criticism of many opensource/non mainstream software products. (ie, firefox, the gimp) Photoshop is about… well, photos, I guess.

While some products use obscure names with success (let’s use firefox as an example) they have a longer history, time to get more people aware of the product and what it does, as well as having a positive name, fire = fast is good for a browser.
The key advantage though is one name, one product. Aviary is a bit confusing for me.

apologies for the long comment.

By: Landon

Landon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:52:33 +0000

I too am a huge fan of web-based applications. Please send me an invite if there are any left.

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By: Sean Su

Sean Su — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:05:12 +0000

Hi Paul, is it possible that I get an Aviary invitation too? Thanks so much.

By: Dustin Williams

Dustin Williams — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:13:49 +0000

I’ve been interested in Avary, but haven’t gotten in yet. Hope some of these invites are still left. =)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:23:46 +0000

Hi Paul, I’d love to give this webapp suite a try. Thanks :)

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By: Marvin Sanchez

Marvin Sanchez — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:39:03 +0000

Seems pretty cool. It looks so much like Photoshop, in terms of the actual aesthetics.

Would love to try it out, but definitely can’t wait to see what the have in store for the full release.

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By: Amirah

Amirah — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:23:56 +0000

Looks like a great suite of apps, I’d love to try them out, maybe you could send an invite my way??

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:36:30 +0000

I can’t wait to try this out. Maybe it can even rival Photoshop’s online version. Waiting for my request to be approved. Great post, btdubs!

By: kris

kris — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:32:21 +0000

sounds cool. luv to try it…

By: Christen Dybenko

Christen Dybenko — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:04:30 +0000

Toucan too!!! Oh yah!

By: thaumata

thaumata — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:37:18 +0000

Hey Paul! I just wanted to pop in and thank you for your post about Aviary. It’s good to hear some critical feedback, and we’ll for sure take your comments into consideration. Glad you’re having fun on the site.

I’d be happy to get you some more invites to share with your readers. If you send me your username, I’ll send them, along with access to Toucan, our color palette application.

Thanks again!
Thaumata

By: Robert Bindler

Robert Bindler — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:35:00 +0000

very interesting web app, thanks for excellent reviews, sure i’d like an invitation too.
regards
R

By: Antonios Lilis

Antonios Lilis — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:14:39 +0000

It looks promising. I’d like an invite too.

By: Christen Dybenko

Christen Dybenko — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:02:34 +0000

I’m definitely interested in trying these out.

This is one of the first full suites I’ve seen and it really seems to have just enough creative flare to pique my interest. I love their tag line “Creation on the fly”.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:40:28 +0000

@everyone – I ran out of invites but hope to have more very soon.

Thanks for the insight Steven – things like Picnik are definitely geared more towards photo touch-ups than providing a creative outlet like Phoenix

By: Justin Ruckman

Justin Ruckman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:07:30 +0000

my opinion of Aviary is that i’d love an invite :)

By: Steven Ametjan

Steven Ametjan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:58:46 +0000

While I have no qualms about your usability issues, I do think it's worth noting that Phoenix is quite a bit ahead of both Photoshop Express and Piknic. Those two applications are very definitely aimed at people who are just looking to lightly touch up their images, but Phoenix is very different. It is much more powerful than that. Having seen some of the images that they have created using Phoenix, I am constantly amazed at the power of this suite. This is a good example of the power behind Phoenix. And this is a good comparison of the different online photo editors. Granted, both of those links are going to Aviary's blog, but they do offer up some good insight that shouldn't be overlooked just because it's the company's blog.

By: Steven Hollingsworth

Steven Hollingsworth — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:52:07 +0000

This is a really great idea, and as Justin said, the sky really could be the limit for the developers. I’ll definitely keep an eye on it and hopefully the developers will continue to improve upon their current success to make a product that could potentially rival Photoshop. I’d love to have a try at it if you have any more beta invites sitting around.

By: Jenn Vargas

Jenn Vargas — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:26:46 +0000

I’m a huge fan of webapps. I think it’s mainly because, as as student, I find myself working on a lot of different computers over the course of a day and I like to be able to access/manipulate myself without much of a hassle.

For Aviary specifically, it seems like there isn’t very much that hasn’t been done before, so I think it will basically come down to speed and experience. I think for things like image manipulation, I’ll probably stick to the standards (Photoshop, Bridge, etc.), but for things like Docs, filesharing, and some of the other quirky things like the font editor, since I don’t have an app I’m absolutely happy with at the moment, I’d be willing to give them a shot.

It seems like it’s going for a bit of a 37signals approach, but caters to less mainstream needs. I’m intrigued to see where it’ll go!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:07:45 +0000

Looks very interesting. I would love to see how it works for a beginning graphics guys like me.

By: Titanous

Titanous — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:39:57 +0000

It looks very useful for use on the road when PS isn’t accessible. And remember, you are comparing a free web app to a $650 professional program.

On another note, you should add transparency to your favicon.