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Aviary's first book deal and some branding updates!

By Avi Muchnick on October 17, 2007 | 9 comments

A quick wrap-up on the last few days of excitement here:

Book deal!

We're thrilled to announce that we have signed a deal to create a book of image editing tutorials with a focus on using Aviary's Phoenix, the image editing tool of our suite.

The best part about this book is that we're including a free full version of Phoenix on AIR with every copy, along with source files for every tutorial inside.



The book will also be useful to users of the GIMP and Adobe Photoshop, as the naming conventions, techniques and tools described in the book are universal in nature to tools used in those programs.

The book will be crowd-sourced, meaning it will be written by our talented community of image editors at Worth1000.com.

The book will be sold in major retail outlets like Barnes and Noble, Borders and of course can be ordered online through Amazon.com and BN.com. More details and a link to preorder will be posted soon.

New logo

We've made a slight change to our branding. We have a new logo, though we may be tweaking it further before our official launch.



New domain

For all you lazy folk out there, you can now access Aviary at a.viary.com:

http://a.viary.com/.

Of course you can continue accessing us at CreationOnTheFly.com.

Comments

Posted by Wiebe on 2007-10-17 16:42:43

Congratulations on this great deal. I'm looking foreward to using Phoenix and seeing this exciting book!

Posted by Ryan Stewart on 2007-10-17 16:50:07

Right on! Looks like it's going to be great! How is it going to include a free version of Phoenix? Is there a desktop version coming? ;) =Ryan rstewart@adobe.com

Posted by Avi Muchnick on 2007-10-17 16:52:43

Woops! Thanks Ryan, I updated it to include "on AIR" in the description.

Posted by Elliot Frantz on 2007-10-18 01:52:05

Congrats! I can't wait to get a copy.

Posted by Bornbad on 2007-10-18 03:47:05

This is great news.

Posted by Manutell on 2007-10-18 13:55:57

I love you!

Posted by ShelbyGT on 2007-10-18 22:57:35

I'll be buying that book! Plans are to use this program for many things here I do...

SGT

Posted by David on 2007-10-19 13:22:33

Very cheering to hear. Online is great, but sometimes a book is just thing. Thanks for expanding the value of your creations.

Posted by Claire Dubois on 2008-09-06 19:37:41

Great news on the book. Now about that amazing Phoenix Recreate image!? Any chance we can get that as a poster or without the text on it? It is PERFECT!

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