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31st August 2010

The final day of the 30 Days of Aviary Tip: Getting the most out of Aviary Today is the last day of the “30 Days of Aviary”! If you want to check out the previous tips and tutorials, read through the 30 Days of Aviary tag. For the final day of the 30 Days of Aviary, I wanted to highlight some features on our site that you may have not checked out yet. I hope you read this post and it encourages you to explore Aviary.com! Image Editor: Most of the tips posted on this tumblog are for our Image Editor. You should be pretty familiar with it by now! It allows you to manipulate photographs using layers, brushes, erasers, filters, selection tools and more. Screen Capture: Our Screen Capture tool isn’t an app but a browser plugin that will capture what you’re viewing and push it to an Aviary program of your choosing. It’s a great way to quickly edit anything you see on the Internet in Aviary! Vector Editor: Our Vector Editor is actually the first online vector editor! You can use it to create clean-looking scalable images such as icons and logos! Effects Editor: Our Effects Editor wasn’t cover too much in 30 Days of Aviary, but it’s awesome and you should check it out. Basically, rather than just letting you apply a filter to an image, it allows you to put filters on top of filters and easily swap out the inputs. For example, you could put a plaid filter on a row of colors, then a swirl filter on the plaid filter and get swirly plaid; But then you can also change the source image and get swirly plaid of something else. It’s a useful tool to create abstract images and textures, and plays nicely with our Image Editor. Image Mark Up: Our Image Mark Up editor, Falcon, is sort of an odd bird; a jack of all trades but a master of none. When you capture images in Talon pushing it to Falcon lets you quickly crop, edit, and caption the picture without being too processor intensive or taking too long to load. But if you decide that you want the full power of Aviary, you can push the image to our Image Editor and continue working on it there. Swatch Editor: The Swatch Editor is one of our coolest tools. It basically uses algorithms to help you pick colors that go together. Say you know you want a pink, a yellow, and a green, but you’re not sure exactly which shade of pink, yellow, or green you want. You can use the Swatch Editor to select the shade of yellow you want and cycle through the different selection algorithms until you find one that also picks pink and green. Now if you make slight changes to any of those colors (making them warmer, cooler, darker or lighter) our Swatch Editor will make changes to the other colors on the pallet. It’s a great way to get pallets that would otherwise be difficult to pull of by simply “eyeballing it”, such as a swatch of complimentary pastels. Music Creator: Ah, our Music Creator! Did you know we had a Music Creator? You can use it to make and loop beats! It’s a great way to express yourself through music even if you don’t know how to play an instrument! Audio Editor: Our Audio Editor lets you upload, manipulate and layer multiple audio tracks. You can even edit tracks created in our Music Creator and layer them together to create wholly originally complex tracks. And that’s all the applications in the Aviary suite (for now!) I strongly recommend checking out any of them that don’t look familiar, you may fall in love with what you find. And finally, here are som helpful sections of our site that may find helpful: Forums: Make sure you check out our forums! It’s an encouraging community filled with some very talented users—many of the creations featured on this tumblog are made by some of our most active forum users. There are also always different creation contests going on the forum and it’s a great place to find inspiration! Tutorials: Many of the tips covered on the 30 Days of Aviary were shortened versions of longer tutorials featured on our site. If you want to learn how to achieve complex effects using Aviary, our tutorials section is a great place to start. Well, that’s it! 30 Days of Aviary is over until further notice and for now this tumblog will go back to just posting cool digital art we find on Aviary and Tumblr. As always, if you have work you’d like us to feature, let us know, we’d love to see what you can create.

The final day of the 30 Days of Aviary Tip: Getting the most out of Aviary

Today is the last day of the “30 Days of Aviary”! If you want to check out the previous tips and tutorials, read through the 30 Days of Aviary tag. For the final day of the 30 Days of Aviary, I wanted to highlight some features on our site that you may have not checked out yet. I hope you read this post and it encourages you to explore Aviary.com!

  • Image Editor: Most of the tips posted on this tumblog are for our Image Editor. You should be pretty familiar with it by now! It allows you to manipulate photographs using layers, brushes, erasers, filters, selection tools and more.
  • Screen Capture: Our Screen Capture tool isn’t an app but a browser plugin that will capture what you’re viewing and push it to an Aviary program of your choosing. It’s a great way to quickly edit anything you see on the Internet in Aviary!
  • Vector Editor: Our Vector Editor is actually the first online vector editor! You can use it to create clean-looking scalable images such as icons and logos!
  • Effects Editor: Our Effects Editor wasn’t cover too much in 30 Days of Aviary, but it’s awesome and you should check it out. Basically, rather than just letting you apply a filter to an image, it allows you to put filters on top of filters and easily swap out the inputs. For example, you could put a plaid filter on a row of colors, then a swirl filter on the plaid filter and get swirly plaid; But then you can also change the source image and get swirly plaid of something else. It’s a useful tool to create abstract images and textures, and plays nicely with our Image Editor.
  • Image Mark Up: Our Image Mark Up editor, Falcon, is sort of an odd bird; a jack of all trades but a master of none. When you capture images in Talon pushing it to Falcon lets you quickly crop, edit, and caption the picture without being too processor intensive or taking too long to load. But if you decide that you want the full power of Aviary, you can push the image to our Image Editor and continue working on it there.
  • Swatch Editor: The Swatch Editor is one of our coolest tools. It basically uses algorithms to help you pick colors that go together. Say you know you want a pink, a yellow, and a green, but you’re not sure exactly which shade of pink, yellow, or green you want. You can use the Swatch Editor to select the shade of yellow you want and cycle through the different selection algorithms until you find one that also picks pink and green. Now if you make slight changes to any of those colors (making them warmer, cooler, darker or lighter) our Swatch Editor will make changes to the other colors on the pallet. It’s a great way to get pallets that would otherwise be difficult to pull of by simply “eyeballing it”, such as a swatch of complimentary pastels.
  • Music Creator: Ah, our Music Creator! Did you know we had a Music Creator? You can use it to make and loop beats! It’s a great way to express yourself through music even if you don’t know how to play an instrument!
  • Audio Editor: Our Audio Editor lets you upload, manipulate and layer multiple audio tracks. You can even edit tracks created in our Music Creator and layer them together to create wholly originally complex tracks.

And that’s all the applications in the Aviary suite (for now!) I strongly recommend checking out any of them that don’t look familiar, you may fall in love with what you find. And finally, here are som helpful sections of our site that may find helpful:

  • Forums: Make sure you check out our forums! It’s an encouraging community filled with some very talented users—many of the creations featured on this tumblog are made by some of our most active forum users. There are also always different creation contests going on the forum and it’s a great place to find inspiration!
  • Tutorials: Many of the tips covered on the 30 Days of Aviary were shortened versions of longer tutorials featured on our site. If you want to learn how to achieve complex effects using Aviary, our tutorials section is a great place to start.

Well, that’s it! 30 Days of Aviary is over until further notice and for now this tumblog will go back to just posting cool digital art we find on Aviary and Tumblr. As always, if you have work you’d like us to feature, let us know, we’d love to see what you can create.

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