Aviary for Facebook Released - image editing app right in Facebook

I posted two articles today about free image editing apps and services and then I just got an email from one of them. Aviary, a great, free online image tool, is now available in Facebook. I use Aviary's image editing tool and screen capture browser extension on a daily basis.

Aviary has announced that their simple photo editor is now available as a Facebook app. It features photo effects, stickers, auto enhancers, tools for brightness, saturation, contrast, red-eye, whiten, blemish, and more.

This means that you can edit and enhance your photos right in Facebook.

This is a great tool for schools that use Facebook, whether for communication or for class projects.

Two More Free Image Editing Resources

Earlier today (actually wrote the article yesterday and had it post today) I wrote about some free Image editing sites and software. Google Picnik is shutting down in April, so many people are going to be looking for alternatives. In addition to the three (Aviary, Paint, and iPiccy) I wrote about this morning, I have found three more alternatives:


Pixlr - Pixlr is a free, online image editing tool that is very powerful, yet pretty easy to use. It has a lot of great features and the menu and icons are similar to other services, so the learning curve is small.



Google+ Creative Kit is a full-featured image editing system built into Google+. It is basically what Picnik was, now on Google+. Edit, crop, add effects, and much more, all through Google+.

So, that's five alternatives to Picnik.




What do you use for image editing?


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Great, free Image editing sites and software

Google is shutting down Picnik soon, so everyone is looking for an alternative for online image editing.

Aviary offers a suite of online image services that include screen capture, image editing and much more. It's free to use and very powerful. Read more here: Aviary image tools




Paint.net is not online, but it is a free download that is easy to use and extremely powerful tool for Windows. It has layers, special effects and much more and the keyboard shortcuts make it very fast to use.


iPiccy is a service I just learned about from Steve Dembo over at Discovery Education. iPiccy requires no login, is easy to use, and has tons of features. You can upload pictures, enter a URL to a picture or import a picture.

So, even though Picnik is going away, there are some great, free options for image editing.

Awesome Screenshot

Awesome Screenshot is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to screen capture and annotate web sites and images from web pages. You can capture the entire page, or just a section of it. Awesome Screenshot will open a new tab with an editing toolbar for you to use. You can save the image to your computer or upload it to a website. It is free and there is no account registration needed.

It is very easy to use and can come in handy for people like me who use screen captures in my blog. The screen shot above was made using Awesome Screenshot.

(found on Lifehacker)

Aviary Falcon - online image markup

Aviary has introduced Falcon, a web based image editing tool. With Falcon, you can capture images and web pages from your browser and crop, resize, and mark them up. Mark up options include text, shapes, colors, and more.

The best part about this is that it is web based so there is no software to install. I found it easy to use and very fast and responsive. This is a great alternative to desktop based image editors, especially for schools, as students can use it from home also.

It is free and you can save your files to your free account or download them.

UPDATE - There is also an Aviary extension available for Firefox and Chrome. One click and you are off and screen capturing, editing, etc.