Partner Spotlight: Framies, your one stop photo creation shop

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Quotes on quotes on quotes!

Framies is your  all-in-one photo creation tool if you're looking for a quick and simple way to express yourself. Pick and choose your favorite quote to slap on any photo (they have 1000's to choose from) or get extra creative and make your own. Stylize your photos with dozens of filters with Aviary's editor and share it across your social networks.

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Download the free app now: 

Not satisfied? Framies seriously has all your favorite photo tools all in once place:

• Split pic - Combine your 2 favorite images
• Use frames - Capture the entire moment with this collage tool
• Create a Vote - Have an opinion? Get answers
• Change your Facebook cover photo - Updates are always necessary
• Swap faces - Find out what you'd look in an alternate universe
• Photo Timer -  Selfies! More selfies!
• Color splash tool! - Change the context of any photo.

I'm sold. You should be too.

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Walgreen’s latest iOS and Android update includes Aviary’s photo editing SDK

Just in time for the holidays, Walgreen's has added the Aviary mobile SDK to their iPhone, iPad, and Android apps! Now you can edit your photos via Aviary before sending them off to get printed at your local store. Read more about the partnership on TechCrunch.

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Download for iPhone | Download for iPad | Download for Android

To access the editor:

• Choose Photos from the homescreen.
• Once inside, click on Browse/Edit on the bottom righthand corner.
• Choose your photo, and click Edit in the top right corner. Adjust, Apply Save, and Print!

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Aviary's mobile SDK is free to customize and implement. To learn more, visit aviary.com and choose your platform!

Aviary goes International - Partners up with Mixi, Japan's Leading Social Network

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It's been an amazing past 12 months for us and while we're absolutely ecstatic about our momentum, we don't plan on slowing down anytime soon!

Today we're excited to announce our partnership with Mixi, Japan's leading social network and communications infrastructure. With a heavy request from Mixi users for a photo editor, Mixi chose Aviary and has updated their iPhone application with our iOS SDK. This new feature now gives Mixi users the ability to add stylistic effects, adjust the lighting, apply text and more to each photo before posting it online for their peers to comment, react, and engage.

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Founded in 2004, Mixi now boasts over 25 million users and is progressively innovating to stay on top of the market.

We're proud to work with a company that prides itself on compatibility and intuitiveness, and are anxious to see how their loyal community responds to the new feature inside their beloved network. Mixi will soon integrate Aviary inside their Android app, with plans to possibly adding it to their website in the future to create a seamless workflow across all their platforms.

This is a huge step for Aviary as we grow to become the world's leading provider of photo editing tools for both web and mobile.  This partnership with Mixi now allows us to have a better understanding of the Japanese market, their developer ecosystem, and what trends (both social and content) to look after. Today Aviary is localizable into any language, which makes us an appealing option for other international companies like Mail.ru and Zoomin, but what we hope to ultimately offer are tools and features that are popular outside of the US and more specialized to cater each market - we're very thankful for our current international partners who are guiding us.

1 Year. 1 Billion Photos Served.

Roughly a year ago, in mid-September 2011, we launched our mobile platform with 30 partners. We now have grown to 2,000 partners, including Flickr, TypePad, Box, MailChimp, SquareSpace, Imgur and many others. Collectively across our network, almost 20 million users interact directly with our photo editor each month. And we just reached a very important milestone in Aviary’s history:

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1 billion photos have now been edited on Aviary’s new platform within our first 12 months of launching. And on our current trajectory, we expect to double that number by the end of 2012.

Additionally, our international initiatives are beginning to gain traction as we seek to become the platform that powers the world’s photo creativity. We're thrilled to announce two new partners today to the Aviary family. The first is Mixi, Japan's largest social network. In the near future, Mixi’s users will be able to enhance and add fun effects to the photos they post directly from their smartphones. The second is my.mail.ru, one of Russia’s largest social networks.

Over the past year, we’ve also entered into strategic partnerships with a host of great companies, including Microsoft, Nokia, Walgreens, and others that we’ll be announcing soon.

I can’t believe it’s been a year already... thanks to our partners and team for making it an incredible one. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us in Year 2.

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Partner Spotlight: Layout

JuicyBits, creator of many popular apps including our favorite, Halftone, has just launched a new photo arranging and sharing app called Layout!

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Despite being just out for several weeks, Layout has already positioned itself at the top of the app store,  being named by Apple as Editor's Choice in the U.S., Canada, and many other countries.

Layout lets you quickly combine your favorite photos into one. Swipe your finger to quickly split a frame into sections, and use the radial menu to add photos directly from Facebook, Instagram, or Flickr.

Use Aviary's editor inside Layout to enhance images with built-in filters and effects, adjust saturation and contrast, add some stickers, and a whole lot more.

To access our editor:

1. Tap on any photo to bring up the radial menu
2. Choose the magic wand, and Aviary's Editor will slide up
3. Make your edits, hit apply, and you're done!

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Aviary is a free solution for developers to instantly inject a photo editor inside their own site/app. If you'd like to do what Layout did, you can get started at aviary.com/ios.

Once you're done editing, you can also add a caption to each photo, apply a background color or pattern, and share your layout with friends and family via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. If you want to go back, Layout includes undo and redo, and best of all, you can store your projects in iCloud to share them with other devices.

Layout is available on iPad (Layout runs on iPad 2 or later) , and will be coming to iPhones shortly! You can download it here.

Partner Spotlight: Squarespace

Squarespace just announced the public availability of Squarespace 6, a complete overhaul of its successful website creation platform. The Squarespace 6 platform adds over 50 new features to Squarespace’s core service, including Aviary's photo editor!

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For those who don't already know, Squarespace is a state-of-the-art website creation platform with breakthrough features that make innovative web design more accessible to the public than ever before. Since 2004, the platform has empowered millions to create and maintain modern, high-quality websites regardless of technical ability.

If you'd like to check it out, visit them at www.squarespace.com and register for a free 14-day trial. If you'd like to move past the trial period, the new platform is available today starting at just $8 per month with 24/7 support and a free custom domain.

Squarespace is committed to building products integrated with the most popular services on the web, which is one of the reasons why they chose Aviary.

To access the editor:

1. Upload a photo inside the Content Manager
2. Double-click the photo and an "Edit Image" lightbox will appear
3. Hover over the thumbnail and click on the pencil
4. Aviary's editor pops up - Edit as needed
5. Hit save, and you're back to where you were!

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Aviary is a *free* photo editing platform for both web and mobile. It's completely customizable to match your site/app, from the tools that are inside, to the user interface. If you'd like to add Aviary's editor to your own site or app, visit Aviary.com and choose your platform to get started.

Photo Hack Day 3 Update: $10,000 in prizes + Fireside Chat Panel Announced

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Since announcing the West Coast Edition of Photo Hack Day July 14-15 at the very cool offices of Dropbox, Bay Area developers and designers have been patiently waiting to hear what prizes will be up for grabs... well wait no more, here is the official list!

1st place: $7,000

2nd place: $2,000

3rd place: $1,000

Hacks will be judged on technical accomplishment, cleverness, originality, and of course, the usefulness of the application.. with bonus points for something completely unique!

With more food and drinks then you could ever ask for, Photo Hack Day 3 is free to register and attend.  Visit photohackday.org to learn more, or register at  photohackday3.eventbrite.com.

Along with the top 3 prizes, our awesome partners will reward participants with prizes for the best use of their API. Make sure to follow @photohacksf on Twitter for the latest news, as this list will be updated regularly! More prizes coming soon!

Aviary:

• New York Startup immersion - We'll sponsor your trip to NYC with free use of our office space, networking opportunities, and $1000 cash to help subsidize your NYC adventure!

Facebook:

• $2500 in Facebook ads credits, and FB sweatshirts for the winning team

Fujifilm:

• A Fujifilm X10 premium compact camera from the award-winning X-Series for the best hack using their API as well as other FinePix digital cameras for runner-ups.

500px:

• A free one year 500px Awesome account for everybody participating in the hack day. They'll also be giving out special prizes for the best use of 500px API

Stupeflix:

• Startup accounts ($300 value) to all dev attendees.

Twilio:

• Kindle Fire + $50 Twilio credit for best use of the Twilio API

Photojojo:

• Cool prizes (TBD) all throughout the event!

Fireside Chat Panel announced!

The topic will be "The Future of Photos", and will include:

• Avi Muchnick, Aviary, CEO (moderator)
• Lucas Buick, Hipstamatic, CEO
• Dirk Stoop, Facebook, lead PM on Photos
• Bryan O'Neil Hughes, Adobe, Senior PM for PS and Lightroom
• Kristen Berman, Lytro, Product Manager

Visit photohackday.org to learn more, or register for free at photohackday3.eventbrite.com

Important Stickers Update to the Aviary iOS SDK

If you're using the iOS SDK, there's an important update to the build in regards to the sticker archives you should be aware of. Currently, the sticker archives in the iOS SDK are being stored in the Documents directory, which is backed up by iCloud, but as of late, Apple has begun to reject any apps storing things there that can be re-downloaded.

To solve this issue, we added an extra attribute to the sticker file to mark it as excluded from iCould backups.

Please see our release notes for more details: 

https://github.com/AviaryInc/Mobile-Feather-SDK-for-iOS/blob/master/RELEASE.md#version-236---may-10-2012

Please download and update to the latest build to avoid any issues. You can grab it at aviary.com/ios.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send them to mobile@aviary.

Partner Spotlight: Twitpic

Twitpic, a platform that allows you to share your photos and videos, has just announced the launch of their long awaited iPhone app, and has added Aviary's editor to the mix! They've taken advantage of the ability to customize the look and feel of the editor's user interface (nice!), and have chosen the 5 tools that they believe makes most sense for their users: Effects, Enhance, Crop, Orientation, and Brightnes.

Download the brand new app here (iTunes Link), or read more about it on their company blog.

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To learn more about Aviary's iOS SDK, or to see how you can do the same for your app, visit aviary.com/ios.

Important UDID Announcement for Aviary's iOS SDK

If you're currently using Aviary's iOS SDK inside your app, there's an important update you should be aware of in regards to the recent report of Apple rejecting apps for accessing unique device identifiers (UDIDs). We don’t collect UDIDs, but the analytics library our SDK uses does access them. We do not expect the inclusion of this library, or of the Aviary SDK, to cause any problems with future versions of your app being accepted to the app store, but just as a precaution we have updated to the newest version of the analytics library which prevents UDIDs from transmitting in clear text.

Please download and update to the newest SDK (v 2.3.4) here: 

www.aviary.com/ios

Note: You must be logged in to download the SDK.

As a nice bonus, the new version of the Aviary iOS SDK includes some color customization options, and higher resolution output (up to 3MP). You can read about all the new updates on our changelog. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to email us at mobile[AT]aviary.com.