Get into the holiday spirit with Aviary

Our winter coats are on, our decorations are up, and we are ready to get festive! And we have a bundle of seasonal packs to help you make the most of your holiday snaps. 

Cabin Pro and Winter Effects were made with snow covered alpine hills in mind. They're ideal for wintertime landscapes and cozy selfies by the fireside. 

If you want to take a more whimsical approach, check out our Festive Stickers by Adam JK - they're adorable! Ho Ho Ho and Craftmas Stickers are perfect for turning your photos into personalized holiday cards. 

Joy Overlays are full of classic greetings, while our Jolly Overlays take a little more tongue in cheek approach to the holidays. 

For New Years, we've got a sticker pack full of gold - Glitter Stickers by Anna Brakefield. 

You can find all of these packs in our Supply Shop today! Happy holidays from Aviary!

Introducing Pantone's Color of the Year 2016

Every year the Pantone Color Institute looks to trends in fashion, art, design and culture to select a Color of the Year. For 2016, they chose not one, but two colors that work together to create a sense of balance: PANTONE 13-1520 Rose Quartz and PANTONE 15-3919 Serenity.

The warmth of Rose Quartz represents compassion and composure, while Serenity’s blue tones reflect calmness and relaxation. Together these two colors embody peace and tranquility. 

We teamed up with Pantone to create a special Effects pack that celebrate Serenity, Rose Quartz and their harmonious nature. These Effects are intended to give your photos a soft, ethereal glow. 

You can download it for free from our supply shop!

Food Photo Challenge Winner

Thank you to everyone who submitted their photos to our food-themed #aviarychallenge with The Infatuation! We had so much fun browsing through the entires and some serious bouts of food envy.

We had a hard time choosing just one winner from all the awesome submissions so we reached out to our friends at The Infatuation for their expert opinion. 

And the winner is - drum roll please - Diem!  

We love how she created an Instagram mosaic by posting each section of her photo individually and how she used the #EEEEEATS Sticker pack to accent her photo. Take a peek at her Instagram page for more collages of delicious things! 

Congratulations to Diem and a big thank you again to everyone for participating. We can't wait to do this again! 

Food Photo Challenge

The holiday season brings together three of our favorite things: friends, family, and food. So we're teaming up with our friends over at The Infatuation to host a new #aviarychallenge inspired by all things delicious! 

Digging into a home-cooked meal made by mom? Treating your buddies to TGIF drinks?Brunching at your favorite neighborhood spot? Show us what you're eating for a chance to win the ultimate EEEEEATS prize package:

• $150 gift certificate to your favorite restaurant
• David Lebovitz's My Paris Kitchen book to get you inspired in the kitchen
• Camera lens thermo mug
• Macro lens clip for you phone so you can perfect those close up food shots
• A feature on The Infatuation's Instagram

Here's how to enter: 

1. Snap a pic of your plate and edit it with Aviary
2. Post to Instagram or Twitter with #aviarychallenge and #EEEEEATS (make sure you get all 5 Es!) 

We've stocked the Supply Shop with everything you need to enhance your food photos, including 2 new, free packs inspired by The Infatuation. 

Submit your entries by Sunday 11/29. We'll share some of our favorite submissions on our Instagram throughout the contest and announce the winner on Tuesday 12/1. 

Ready, get set, #EEEEEATS! 

Introducing Discover for Aviary on iOS

We love seeing all your #aviary photos on Instagram and Twitter, so we made a way to get your daily dose of photo inspiration right in our app! Tap Discover to explore a curated stream of beautiful photos made with Aviary. 

Tap and hold the photo to see the original, unedited version. If you want to dive deeper, press the play or recipe button below any photo to see the step-by-step editing process.

New photos are added daily so you'll never be in short supply of inspiration! We hope that these photos spur your creativity. 

Update to the latest version of Aviary to try out Discover and get inspired! Using Aviary on Android? Hang tight, our Discover feature is coming your way soon. 

Celebrate Halloween with Aviary

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays because it gives us a chance to get creative - snacks, costumes, decor, and best of all, photos! Make your pics Halloween-ready with seasonal packs from our Supply Shop. 

If you want to transform your photo into an eerie scene, try out textured Fear Effects. They're designed to give your pics that grainy, horror flick look. 

Costume Stickers are perfect for dressing up your four legged pals. 

Don't have a costume yet? Don't worry, we've got you covered with our Muertitos Stickers. Turn your selfies into a sugar skulls in a snap. 

Wishing you all a spooky Halloween! 👻

The Making of Comic Book

We love beautiful photography, but we love having fun with photos too! Our Comic Book Stickers by Nathan Yoder are just the thing when you're in a playful mood and want to give your pics a quirky, light-hearted spin. 

Nathan is a Portland-based artist known for his stylistic, Americana pen and ink illustrations. For his Aviary sticker pack, he looked to his own imaginative tendencies for inspiration. 

"My imagination is constantly adding cartoonish sound effects to things, like a bird flying by," he reveals, "so I thought it would be fun to create sticker versions of those sounds." 

Nathan begins his creative process with small, quick sketches to get all his ideas down on paper. "Once I've collected a series of sketches, I'll go over them with a pen to create clean lines that will be easily managed on the computer," he explains. The inked sketches are then scanned into the computer, where he makes final tweaks smoothing out any bumps and rough lines. And ta-da! The stickers are ready for Aviary.

Download Nathan's Comic Book Stickers from our Supply Shop today to animate your photos! We can't wait to see what fun scenes you create! 

The Making of Junk Food

Josh Lafayette is a designer, illustrator and poet who specializes in lettering and food. He's also the artist behind the Junk Food Pack, a collection of whimsical stickers inspired by classic tattoos and yummy snacks. Josh describes his style as "wonky and cartoony" and we love how his kitschy stickers add a playful spin to photography. 

"When using Stickers in Aviary, I really like the ones that interact with a person’s face or body, like hats and mustaches," Josh explains. While brainstorming ideas, inspiration struck - in the form of an ice cream hat! From there, he created a wardrobe of accessories that will take your selfies and squad pics to a whole new dimension. 

Here's a closer look at the creative process behind the sticker that started it all: 

Step 1: Think, think, think, think, think, EUREKA!

Step 2: Research and acquire references.

Step 3: Make a rough digital sketch. 

Step 4: Tighten up that sketch with thick black outlines.

Step 5: Color the drawing like it’s in a coloring book.

Step 6: Add details, shadows and highlights and voila! 

Download Junk Food Stickers from Aviary's Supply Shop today!  And if you like Josh's style, check out his Party Time Overlays. 

Create Beautiful Collages with Bazaart

We're always excited to see how developers integrate Aviary and the Creative SDK into their apps, and we’re delighted to tell you about a fantastic app that lets you take your photos to a whole new level - Bazaart!

Bazaart is an award-winning photo collage app for creating masterful photo montages. You can move, scale, and play with photo layers, apply effects, add artwork, text, and more!

Turn your snaps into scrapbook-ready collages by adding fun elements from Bazaart's Image Search. You can easily remove backgrounds from the pictures for the perfect fit.

Or try your hand at something more abstract, like this wintry scene. Bazaart has an integration with Creative Cloud Market so you can browse for inspiration and download patterns and vectors to add to your collage.

Download Bazaart to create your own collages! 

Travel Photo Challenge Winner

That's a wrap, folks! Our travel-themed photo contest is now over and we were so thrilled to see so many wonderful submissions. Thank you to everyone who shared their summer adventures! From sunsets in the Mediterranean, road trips in Wyoming and sunny days at the beach, we are envious of all the amazing things you've been up to this summer. 

We received over 1200 beautiful entries and after much deliberation we picked this shot by Rockadile as the winner. We love the grandness of the Rockies in the background, the pristine water and the sense of adventure we get from the photo. 

Check out her Instagram page for more beautiful photos from Banff National Park. And stay tuned for our next photo challenge, coming your way this fall!