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We recently launched our photo-editing SDK, a mobile version of our popular web-based simple photo editor. Developers of mobile applications can now add our photo editor’s powerful functionality into any iPhone or Android app with just a few lines of code! Read on to see what Picsicle did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

Our friends at Sincerely just launched the Sincerely Ship Library for iOS, which makes adding photo printing and postcard functionality to your app as easy as including a library.

Leveraging Sincerely and Aviary’s APIs, Frank Denbow — founder of StartupThreads, organizer of StartupWeekend, and curator of StartupDigest — has created Picsicle. The iOS app is a new way of turning your memories, in the form of mobile photos, into something tangible.

Download the iPhone app now!

In case you haven’t noticed by now, Aviary loves simple, streamlined workflows. Like our mobile editor and the rest of the products in Sincerely’s awesome suite, Picsicle is absolutely intuitive to use.

The process is as simple as taking a photo (or uploading an existing one) and editing the image using our wide range of tools. Picsicle features Aviary’s effects, stickers, text, brightness, and more, while Sincerely takes care of the printing and shipping. $1.99 is all it takes to turn the photos on your phone into a 4×6 postcard that can be shared with anyone around the world. You heard us right: Anyone! Anywhere! We’re not heavy users of hyperbole, but it is literally that easy.

So now you get why we’re big fans, right?

The ability to capture specific moments is something that the camera phone has brought to millions of people worldwide. Picsicle offers its users one more step: the ability to customize those moments in ways that are creative and unique before sharing them. Pictures can break free of being one component of an image stream, and you can enjoy the satisfaction of sharing your memories, in tangible form, with the people who will enjoy them the most.

We’ve been waiting a long time to see Sincerely’s Ship Library in action, and think Picsicle is a great way to demonstrate what the library is capable of. Aviary is proud to partner with Picsicle’s efforts to bring a welcome surprise to your loved ones.

We recently launched our photo-editing SDK, a mobile version of our popular web-based simple photo editor. Developers of mobile applications can now add our photo editor’s powerful functionality into any iPhone or Android app with just a few lines of code! Read on to see what MyPics did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

Picasa users, rejoice! MyPics is a web albums manager that allows you to take care of all of your Picasa web albums from your phone. With the addition of Aviary’s mobile editor, we’ve teamed up to allow you to access and edit all your Picasa photos and videos from a single app.

Download the iPhone app now!

Better yet, every photo is cached on your iPhone or iPod, which means that you can view them even when internet access is unavailable. (Subway riders, rejoice some more!) Not only can you carry the entirety of your collections in the palm of your hand, but you can also view the public albums of your friends or the albums they choose to share with you.

In addition to on-the-go viewing and sharing, MyPics users now have Aviary’s editing functionality within the app’s clean, seamless interface. Another awesome partnership means more ways to make your photos better than ever.

We recently launched our photo-editing SDK, a mobile version of our popular web-based simple photo editor. Developers of mobile applications can now add our photo editor’s powerful functionality into any iPhone or Android app with just a few lines of code! Read on to see what Pic Collage did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

Aviary’s Feather SDK and Pic Collage have joined forces to make two already simple, intuitive interfaces even more awesome.

See why 900,000 (and growing!) people love Pic Collage. Download the iPhone app now.

Pic Collage is a fun, simple way to create photo collages and share them with friends and family. Photos can be resized, rotated, and moved to the front of back with a few taps, pinches, or flicks. The application uses photos from your mobile device, your Facebook albums, or even your friends’ Facebook albums — after all, why limit the selection to what’s on your phone? When you’re done, the finished product can be shared via email, tweeted on Twitter, or posted to Facebook.

To open Feather in Pic Collage’s app, upload a photo by tapping on the camera icon to bring it onto your screen. Double tap on the photo you wish to edit. Our effects, color, brightness, and saturation tools will slide up into the application.

After you’ve tweaked your photo to your liking, use Pic Collage’s effortless resizing and layering functionality to create your collage.

The final product looks like something straight out of a personal scrapbook, sans paper clippings and messy glue. Did we mention that you do all of this on your phone?

“The Aviary SDK is perfect for our photo collage app. Just double-tap a photo in Pic Collage and the editing tools pop up, making it super easy to add effects and filters on the fly.” - John Fan, Co-Founder

We’re big fans of collaboration, and we think our partnership with Pic Collage is a perfect way to ensure that viewing a batch of unedited photos is a thing of the past. Pic Collage makes it possible to turn multiple, individual photos into a single project, and Aviary makes sure each image is looking its best. How’s that for teamwork?

Want to try Pic Collage for yourself? Download the app here!

Last week we launched our photo-editing SDK, a mobile version of our popular web-based simple photo editor. Developers of mobile applications can now add our photo editor’s powerful functionality into any iPhone or Android app with just a few lines of code! We love how Fashism integrated our SDK – read on to see what they did, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use!

Fashism is a forum where users can take pictures of their daily getup and submit them (via website or mobile application) for feedback. The sartorial-savvy community then weighs in with their verdict — love it or hate it — and can submit comments about suggestions to improve an outfit (“Hike up that skirt to your waist!”) or compliment elements that they’re particularly fond of (“So hip it hurts!”).

Fashism users will now be able to tweak their photos to the point of post-ready perfection, without having to leave the app to do it! Indoor lighting is notoriously difficult to fix in photos, but we think Aviary’s tools are just the right fit. Users can fix their dressing room pictures in one click with our magical Enhance filter, or use our brightness, contrast, saturation, and color tools for manual perfection in undoing even the harshest fluorescence.

Download the Fashism iPhone app now!

To see Aviary’s editor strut its stuff in the Fashism mobile app, upload a new (or existing) photo by selecting the “Post” button in the middle of the toolbar.

The app will then give you the option to edit your photos by tapping on the pink “Photo Tools” button to the right of the image. Our editor will slide up inside the Fashism app, revealing a range of one-tap fixes

(You may notice that the editor looks a little different from our default design; Fashism has taken advantage of the ability to customize the mobile interface to match their brand!)

 To learn more about Fashism, please refer to their website or download the iPhone app. Don’t forget to check out the stylish ladies of Fashism, as featured in Lucky Magazine!