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Aviary Image Editors Are Now Completely Free

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Aviary, an online suite of image editing tools has become completely free. Up until now, the premium service was $24.99 per year and without it you didn't have access to some of the more advanced features.

Google Chrome Screen Capture Extension By Aviary

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Aviary, the somewhat well known web-based image capture and editor service released a Google Chrome extension.

You can use this new extension to take a screenshot of the visible portion of a web page and open it in Image Markup or the Image, Color, Effects, or Vector Editor.

Screen Capture Made Easy with Aviary - Now With Bookmarklet

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Web-based image editor Aviary has just made it exceptionally easy to grab, edit, and share screen captures.

To get started, all you need to do is type in “aviary.com/” in front of the URL of the page you’d like to screenshot. From there, Aviary opens up its web-based image editor, where you can do things like crop, resize, and adjust the quality of the image, as well as use some of Aviary’s editing tools, like adding text, doodles, or arrows.

For easier use, this also comes with a bookmarklet which if clicked, it creates a screenshot of the page you're currently on and then takes you to the web-based image editor. To use the bookmarklet, simply drag this to your bookmarks toolbar: Screen Capture.

Once you’re satisfied with the image, all you need to do is either save it your desktop or save it online. From there, you can share it on the social sites of your choice, or do as us bloggers do and embed it in your blog posts.

This launch follows the release of Aviary’s Firefox plugin, Talon, which does essentially the same thing, but requires both Firefox and an install.

[via mashable.com]

Add Image Editing to Your Website

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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.

A new API makes perfect sense in this context and we're excited to see how other sites decide to integrate it.

[via RRW]