Mobile Spotlight: Capture the Flag

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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 Capture the Flag did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

At Aviary, we’re a big fan of photos (naturally), but what you might not know is that we’re equally fond of games. When it comes to intra-office competition, the pool table, Quake tournaments, and FIFA offer ample opportunities for our team to duke it out — but what if there was a game that began to blur the lines between competing on a console and in real life?

We’ve written about Snapr before, but this time we want to share another one of their projects with you: Capture the Flag. The ubiquitous childhood pastime has been transformed from a recess game to a mobile one, but remains true to the idea of battling for the blacktop. The tried and true adage says the world is your oyster. On the other hand, Snapr says the real world is your map — and you better conquer it.

Download the iPhone app now!

Download the Android app now! 

To play, join a tribe, check-in at various locations, and take pictures of the places you want to take over. Every photo scores points for your team, and sharing awards you with bonuses; when you have the most points at a particular place, it becomes your territory. (Victory!) To add to the blurred lines between your mobile device and reality, claiming a location entitles you to deals and additional bonuses.

Aviary’s editor is one of the features of playing Capture the Flag! To see our tools at work, upload a photo of your current whereabouts, tap the edit button at the top of the screen, and watch as you’re whisked away into our editor. Capture the Flag has our full array of tools, so perfection is possible! Once your pictures are ready to go, geotag them, submit them, and watch the points roll in.

We’re proud to partner with new, creative companies like Snapr who continue to add layers of new experiences to the way we combine photos and our phones.

To learn more, check out Capture the Flag’s website!

 

 

Mobile Spotlight: Twitrpix

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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 Twitrpix did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

The exact number of photos shared daily on Twitter falls somewhere between “a lot” and “a LOT”. A quick Google search for third-party photo sharing services on Twitter yields equally numerous results, which naturally brings up a question: how will these apps set themselves apart?

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When it comes to differentiation and unique features, Twitrpix is already out the door. They’ve integrated our editor into their instant uploader, which means that you can snap a photo, edit it with 16 tools (brightness, contrast, cropping, and stickers, to name a few), filter it, add a caption, and tweet it — all from the same app. Twitrpix eliminates the need to switch between existing applications on your phone, saving your thumbs the effort and ultimate hassle.

The application instantly activates your camera, allowing you to take a photo or upload an existing one. You have the option to filter your picture using Twitrpix’s effects. Aviary’s editor pops up when you tap the tools button (demarcated by a paintbrush, ruler, and pen), enabling you to crop, adjust, and tweak your photo to your heart’s delight. When you’re done, all that’s left is to add a caption — tap post to send your photo off to the newsfeed.

The Aviary team consistently gushes over intuitive, simple, straightforward workflow, and we’re proud to partner with Twitrpix, an application that is no exception.

To learn more, check out Twitrpix’s website, or visit the App Store!

 

 

Join Aviary at NYC BigApps 3.0

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New York City is challenging software developers to create apps that use city data to make NYC better. The goal is to help NYC residents, visitors, and businesses all over improve their well-being through technology. Building on the first two annual BigApps competitions, this years event will offer new data, resources, and prizes totaling in $50,000!

Visit 2011.nycbigapps.com to learn more, and to see how you can participate.

A new twist has been added to BigApps 3.0! They’re encouraging all attendees to go beyond using just city data. In fact, they want you to use an API from a participating NYC company to combine multiple data sources in new and interesting ways. Yes, that means all participants are welcome to build on the Aviary API!

 

How can I use the Aviary API at BigApps 3.0? 

Any project (web or mobile) that includes photos is a perfect situation for the Aviary API! Our photo editor will give your users a fast, easy way to edit + enahnce their photos without leaving the site/app. Tools ranging from your basic crop, rotate, flip to more stylistic effects, to one click tools like auto-enhance are completely customizable to match your project.

Visit developers.aviary.com to learn more!

Here are the details of NYC BigApps 3.0 from the official Eventbrite. Tickets are sold out (wahhhh), but feel free to add yourself to the waitlist if you’re feelin’ lucky!

 

 

Join other NYC BigApps 3.0 participants for the first NYC BigApps Hackathon! This weekend-long hackathon is for anyone planning to participate in NYC BigApps 3.0.

  • Friday, Nov. 11 from 7 p.m to 9 pm.: Kickoff event at Pivotal Labs
  • Saturday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. (through the night) to Sunday, Nov. 13 at 1 p.m.: Hacking at Pivotal Labs
  • Sunday, Nov. 13 at 2:30 p.m.: Presentations, judging, prizes

And here’s what you can look forward to:

  • Develop ideas, brainstorm, explore NYC Open Data
  • Find teammates and contribute your skills
  • Build something amazing to help NYC
  • Talk to representatives from companies providing APIs
  • Compete for $2,500 in prizes for the best hacks!

Like NYC BigApps submissions, hacks must use data from NYC Open Data and will be judged on the quality of the idea, implementation, and potential impact.

Please note: the NYC BigApps 3.0 Hackathon is intended to help you create a potential submission for NYC BigApps 3.0. To participate in the hackathon, you need to meet the eligibility requirements for NYC BigApps 3.0, described at http://2011.NYCBigApps.com/details/rules. However, hacks you create at the hackathon will be judged independently. Your participation and creations will not increase or decrease your chances of winning NYC BigApps 3.0.

Mobile Spotlight: Kapturem

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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 Kapturem did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

Two mobile trends that have seen an explosion in popularity are photos and gaming. Our partner, Kapturem, asks — and addresses — a fairly simple question: why not have both?

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Kapturem is a game that encourages picture sharing and a little friendly competition amongst users. The platform is part social network, part photo-taking and photo-sharing, and part game (complete with rankings, notoriety, challenges, unlocked content, and more!) — the sum of which is awesome.

To see Aviary’s tools in action, take a photo (or upload your own) and select OK. and You’ll be whisked away to the editor, where you can fix your pictures to your heart’s delight. Kapturem has implemented sixteen of our tools, which means that there’s plenty of work that can be done before you share your work with the community.

Because Kapturem is built around a core group of users, there are a number of tools that enable social interaction — search for friends, take advantage of their sharing functionality that distributes your photos across social networks, manage your content, and personalize your profile! Additionally, track your ranking among other Kapturem users and try your hand at capturing content. The more you share, the more your rank rises (you start as an aspiring Associate, and climb the ranks from there), and the more notorious you become.

To find out more about Kapturem’s multifaceted awesomeness, and to partake in the challenges, visit their website. Don’t forget to put your Aviary editing skills to good use during your quest of becoming the Don of Kapturem!

Mobile Spotlight: LipMe

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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 LipMe did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

Aside from their ability to change the world or end world hunger (mind you, this only applies to a handful), mankind was blessed with celebrities and generally famous people for two reasons: (1) to imitate them; (2) to make fun of them.

Naturally, the same logic applies to your friends. And animals. And heck, for sake of being inclusive, inanimate objects count too.

Behold: LipMe, the mobile application that enables you to record and share your funny impersonations of anyone — or anything! Nobody is safe from your Conan-esque pranks. LipMe has made sure Aviary can join in on the fun by integrating our editor into their impersonation tools. Want to be sure your picture of Christopher Walken is as on point as your vocal impersonation is? How about the ability to give your photos a Santa Claus hat, or a range of immaculately groomed mustaches?

Don’t worry, LipMe and Aviary have taken care of all of that.

Download the iPhone app now!

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To demonstrate the ease of the workflow, we’ve borrowed the beautiful mug of Aviary’s marketing mastermind, Nam.

Simply take or upload a photo of whatever you’d like to imitate. Aviary’s editor will automatically pop up, enabling you to fix your photos to your liking. After you’re done, use a few swipes to remove the mouth of the photo, use the iPhone’s front-facing camera to line up your mouth to the missing area, and record your impersonation.

Now get to your nearest mirror, perfect your impersonation, and download LipMe for endless imitation fun! Your friends might not thank you, but after they see what you’ve done, we’re fairly sure they’ll end up impersonating you sometime in the near future.

To learn more, check out LipMe’s website!

Mobile Spotlight: iLoader 2

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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 iLoader 2 did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

There’s only one downside to a Camera Roll chock full of pictures: how the heck are you supposed to get all of them shared? Users have consistently bemoaned the tedious, process that is uploading mobile images, one by one, to Facebook. Long gone are the days where we had to post individual pictures on the internet via dialogue boxes. So why is mobile still stuck with archaic uploaders?

We know, we’ve been frustrated too. That’s why we want you to meet one of our partners: iLoader 2.

Download the iPhone app now!

 

Download the Android app now!

To see our editing tools join forces with batch uploading, open iLoader and tap the upload photos button. iLoader 2 will access your Camera Roll. To select a photo, tap once; to preview it, tap twice. Once you’ve selected your photos of choice, tap done. Your choices will enter the menu, where you’ll tap edit photos, and then the arrow button in the upper right hand corner, to enter our editor.

As an addition to the arsenal of our simple, intuitive, and efficient partners, iLoader 2 unites Aviary’s editor with the ease and convenience of their batch uploading. Got a whole weekend’s worth of pictures to share on Facebook? Don’t want the process to take half an hour to upload and tag? You know exactly what to do (and now, how to do it!)

iLoader 2 users, this leaves you with a far more pressing question: what are you going to do with your newfound free time?

Want to know more? Check out iLoader’s Facebook page!

Mobile Spotlight: PicPlz

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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 PicPlz did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

Photographs are inherently social. We gather with our friends to pore over photos of weddings, vacations, adventures — photographs have become a crucial part of vicarious experience and enjoyment. That being said, the act of getting your friends together is no small feat; when our schedules prevent us from sharing our pictures in person, PicPlz is there.

Download the iPhone app now!

Download the Android app now!

PicPlz is a platform that supports real-time sharing and distribution of mobile photos. Its community is passionate, active, and crazy about the ability to see what other people are seeing, doing, and experiencing. Like other digital, real-time services, the element of immediacy — knowing that what you’re seeing is something happening right now, somewhere out there — adds an extra coolness factor to the photo feed. Like, comment, and follow users or photos to curate a visual photographic feed filled with things you want to see!

Aviary’s editor has been integrated into PicPlz, which means our tools have joined PicPlz’s wide selection of filters and effects (awesomeness begets awesomeness, does it not?)

To see how the integration works, simply take or upload your photo. Once it enters PicPlz’s workflow, tap the edit button on the upper left hand corner of the screen to open Aviary’s editor. Fix your photo accordingly — PicPlz has fifteen of our tools for you to play with! When you’re done, you can add a caption and a geotag, and your photo is off to join the millions that have already been shared.

We’re incredibly happy to have partnered with PicPlz to make your pictures look as wonderful as can be. Only the best for our users!

Mobile spotlight: Fotobabble

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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 Fotobabble did with our tools, or check out the rest of our partners to see how they’re putting our editor to use.

Nowadays, everyone wants multiple functions in a single package. Take cameras, for instance: you have them embedded in your laptop, on your cell phone, and now on your tablet. Packing a range of functionality into a single device is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, if not expected, and Fotobabble is taking that idea and running with it.

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So, sure: you can have phones that take pictures. You can have a camera on your laptop. But what about the actual images themselves?

That’s where Fotobabble is setting themselves apart. With their service, the media itself — your photos — has the ability to be far more than visual stimuli. By embedding audio into your pictures, Fotobabble enables “talking photos” to communicate to your viewers and engage them with your images and voice.

Aviary’s image editor can be found on Fotobabble’s iOS application. To get started, take a picture or use one from your Camera Roll (tap on the photograph icon in the lower right hand corner). This will bring the image onto your screen.

Tap the Edit button to bring up Aviary’s in-line image editor, which has been beautifully customized to match Fotobabble’s app. Crop your photo, add effects, or play with the colors, stickers, and text, and use Fotobabble’s recording feature to add an audible caption or message to your work!

We’re proud to join forces with innovators like Fotobabble. The newfound ability to add your own personal touch to mobile images with Aviary’s editor and Fotobabble’s audio capability is proof that we’re changing the way you approach and experience photos, making them increasingly malleable vehicles for creativity, self-expression, and sharing with loved ones.

Instapage Integrates Aviary API to Add Photo Editing Functionality

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Most of the time, talk of evolution is restricted to the biological realm — most of the time. What if we could get a website to adapt? What if it was a learning entity that figured out its most effective strategies, and implemented those tactics on its own? In other words: are you impressed yet?

Meet Instapage, the first landing page that learns what works best, based upon the actions and reactions of its visitors. Despite some incredibly sophisticated technology bolstering their platform, Instapage prides itself on its ease of use. Their MO: “Easy enough your grandma can use it, yet powerful enough your boss will approve.”

(Hey Instapage, guess what? Us too.)

To see Aviary in action, go to Instapage’s page builder, select editable content (demarcated on the site by a graphic of a page, folder, etc.), click on the red “EDIT” tab that appears in the upper right hand corner, and upload a photo from the menu.

Once the photo is in place, double click on it to bring up our embeddable web editor. Tweak your photo accordingly and you’re done!

We’re proud to announce that we’ve partnered with Instapage to bring our image editor to their smart landing pages. In addition to its highly customizable layouts, the best part of Instapage is its versatility — you can use it for practically anything. One click fixes meets smart website with optimized content delivery: we love this combination almost as much as you do.

Check out Instapage’s intelligent landing page today!