A.viary.com - A Sweet Suite of Online Graphics Tools

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A.viary is a relatively new suite of web applications that support image editing and generation, as well as many other tasks. They focus on tools and skills to support the creative nonprofessional or high level hobbyist. This presentation is also available in individual sections: Intro, Phoenix, Peacock, Toucan. This presentation was part of the Bootcamp series: http://www.dent.umich.edu/informatics/bootcamp/

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  • 1. 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

2. A.viary.com - A Sweet Suite of Online Graphics ToolsPF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, [email protected] 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved. 3. A.viary Intro 4. Welcome to Aviary! 5. A.viary Dashboard Page

  • Aviary: http://a.viary.com
  • Social features
    • Sharing
    • Friends
    • Collaboration

6. Personal Profile 7. Permissions 8. Image & Tool Collections 9. Friends & Favorites 10. Embedding & Sharing

  • Learn from how others have made their images

11. Tech Support & Community Managers 12. Aviary Tools 13. A.viarys Tools: Starters

  • Available in beta: Phoenix & Peacock

* * * 14. A.viarys Tools: More

  • Works with Mac, PC and Linux. Any computer and browser that has Adobe Flash 9 installed on it and an Internet connection.

15. FAQs 16. Help: Tutorials

  • http://a.viary.com/features/phoenix

17. Forums 18. Community Discussions (Text Tool) 19. A.viary: Phoenix 20. Loading Application . 21. Ready to Go 22. Load an Egg 23. Egg Loaded 24. Menus 1-3

  • File
  • Edit
  • Image

25. Menus 4-9

  • Layer
  • Select
  • Filters

26. Tools

  • Transformation
  • Distortion
  • Magic Wand
  • Lasso
  • Selection
  • Shape
  • Fills
  • Paint
  • Smudge
  • Liquefy
  • Text

27. Tools, Details 28. Tools, Details - More 29. Tools, Details - and More! 30. Tools - Colors 31. Layers

  • New
  • Group
  • Lock
  • Filters
  • Drop / merge

32. Lets Make Something! 33. Undo Command 34. Duplicate Layer 35. Manipulate Image: Invert Colors 36. Add Text 37. Color Text 38. Display Your History 39. Merge, Position, Contrast, Save 40. Export: Put It Where You Need It 41. Export - Details 42. Export - Choose Format 43. Export - To Your Hard Drive 44. All Done! 45. Aviary Peacock 46. Ready to Go 47. Starting 48. Tools 49. Add a Resource 50. Assets & Eggs 51. New Resource 52. Add An Effect 53. Or Two 54. Manipulate Your Effect Settings 55. Lets Get Complicated 56. More Choices 57. Details 58. Final Touches 59. Connecting the Wires 60. Final Wire 61. End Product 62. Made a Mistake? 63. Aviary Toucan 64. Ready to Go 65. Equidistant / 3 66. Alternate 67. Deviance 68. Opposite 69. Circular 70. Circular Proportional 71. Add Color to Palette 72. Source Image

  • You can also test Color Vision variations

73. Eyedropper to Select Color 74. Push Palette to Bar

  • Notice it gives you color codes for web design

75. Push Palette to Clipboard 76. Save Palette as Graphic 77. End Product 78. Want more?

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