New Ning Aviary Extension Lets You Edit (and Have Fun) with Photos on Your Network

[Eric Suesz]

Today, we're excited to unveil the Aviary Extension, a tool that can increase your member engagement and inject fun and utility into networks that use the Photos feature. It’s available for Plus and Pro networks. 

Aviary provides a suite of creative online tools to help people create — and improve upon — photos, designs and audio clips. This Ning Extension allows you and your members to edit photos directly inside the page. You can apply useful tweaks like cropping and red-eye reduction; edit the contrast, brightness and colors; add text to photos; and — if you’re feeling creative or playful — you can add “stickers” as an overlay to put mustaches, hats and tons of other fun items directly onto the images of people in your photos.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, imagine how many more words your members will share when confronted with fun pictures like this: 

Even more useful and fun: Your members can use the Ning Aviary Extension to apply these types of transformations to their profile photos, if they wish.

To activate the Aviary Ning Extension, just head to your network dashboard and visit the Ning Extensions page (under Tools). Once there, click “Activate” to turn it on. 

Now, whenever you hover your mouse over photos you are able to edit, you’ll see an option for Photo Stickers & Effects. Clicking that link will start up Aviary’s editor and encourage you to apply updates, transformations and filters to your photo. Once you’ve completed the changes you want to make, click on Save and the modified photo will be saved back to the network.

We’ve got additional information on the Aviary Extension in this Help Center article. 

[Tyler Durbin]

Awesome job!  It works great!

[solo]

[Anthony]

Cool..Very useful feature.  Question, how far are we with the CafePress extension?

[solo]

Hey Eric..can member alter the photos that other members post up?or can they just alter the ones they post up?

[Garnor Morantes]

Hi solo, a member can only alter their own photos (including his/her own profile photo). NCs and admins can alter any photos with the exception of a member's profile photo.

[solo]

thanks im glad to know this..i having so much fun,allready messed up a few members photos,lol

[Jenny]

This Ning Extension is way too much fun!

[Lisa B]

Super fun! Thanks guys!

[Robert]

This is great ..is there a generic email that we can send out to our members once we launch this ? They are always useful

[solo]

@robert +1

[Patrick Chappelle]

[Clark P]

This looks FANTASTIC!  There is one feature missing that lots of members could use:  Rotate

 

The 'Rotate' feature is on the Aviary.com site but not in the Ning extension.  Could we please include that one as well?  It seems silly to leave it out as it is one of the most done edits to any photo.  Thx!