A New Player in Online Editors' Team - Aviary.com

Undoubtedly, I’ve already written about a great number of sites and services related to social networking sphere, and to be honest, I’ve been fed up with this theme a bit.

Though, when the time came to decide upon the topic, I’ve chosen to take a closer look at the content we are likely to share most – photos & music, and the tools and engines we use to create a masterpiece out of the ordinary.

In this respect, in addition to well-known Photoshop (which frequently turns out to be a bit “heavy” or “bulky”), and the basic image editors, inserted into the apps for different mobile platforms, a range of online image editors have also gained considerable popularity. Here, the first service that comes into thought is surely Picnic, which has become of the widely-applied tools not only for editing pics and photos, but for their instant sharing as well.

To be honest, the popularity of Picnic has really reached the global scale at a certain point: it’s currently used by millions of people all over the world, and is even connected to one of the file-sharing giants 4shared, which offers the users to edit their photos directly from their accounts.

Nevertheless, I’d like to dwell upon another market player, namely Aviary.com, which has managed to combine the photo-editors (including effects editor, vector editor and image markup, etc.) and the music-creator+ editor at one place.

Having tested versatile available features I have pointed out a number of essential benefits of Aviary.com, like its simplicity of usage, especially as far as photo-editing is considered. The whole range of available features is simply to access, apply and undo, in case you have made a sort of a mistake.

As for the music creator and editor, these aspects are more complicated to grasp, though the smart service authors have also placed the intelligible tutorials at the site, so their usage gets much simpler.

One more important advantage of Aviary is the provided user-friendly Web and Mobile API, aimed at fast insertion of photo and music editing tools into both web and mobile applications of various kinds.

At the same time, I wouldn’t be me if I couldn’t find a flaw in powerful Aviary.com services, though in this very case it’s not really a flaw, but rather an amusing aspect. This is related to Aviary-friendly site, Worth1000.com, designed to launch the contests for photographers with different skill levels and experience.

I’m not saying that Worth1000.com is bad, or, has little chances to become incredibly famous among the users. On the contrary, all contests are structured in a logical way, and the whole idea of the site appeals to human natural desire to boast a bit.

Yet, the prmised awards aren’t that valuable, so that I’d try very hard to win in the site’s contests. In fact, their majority is nothing, but a presented digital badge, whereas the number of sponsored contests with worthy prizes is still insufficient from my point of view.

Basically, you can satisfy your ego, but you can’t fill your wallet with Worth1000.com.

Looking forward to hearing more?

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Andy