Phoenix

= = = Aviary Phoenix Guide = = =

This tool is called (**Aviary Phoenix**). This tool is basically Photoshop, except I think it is easier to use. With this tool, you can take images off the web or anywhere, and you can alter them in many ways.

1. You can access this tool on a gmail account. Click the more link and you will see the aviary link. Then click on it, scroll down until you see the edit images link. Once you are on it you can start from scratch or load existing file.

Starting from scratch

Choose the width of the document to start. Then up load a file to edit. To do this go to file, upload file. Once you document is up you can edit it with different tools. There are 11 different editing tools to choose from:


 * the move tool-** the move tool is to select and move files and layers. To do this you first need to select the layer and then you can drag it.


 * transformation tool**- The transformation tool is similar to the move tool except for the fact that you can change the size, length, height, and tilt of the picture.

free form selection- It is the same thing as rectangular selection except that it is not rectangular.
 * rectangular selection**- this tool allows you to select a rectangular portion of a layer and take that selected chunk and move it places.


 * the magic wand**- this tool select by color and it deletes backgrounds with a single click.lt is magical.


 * paint brush tool**- allows you to edit things by drawing and putting cool designs on them.


 * paint bucket**- allows you to fill a selected area with one color.


 * rectangular shape**-You can create shapes with this one.


 * text tool-**you can put in text. From there you can alter the font, size, and color.


 * smudge tool**- With this tool you can smudge things by clicking on them.


 * liquefy tool**- This tool distorts pixels.

This is an image that we made.



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 * Note: The technical difficulties Ford and Nick had were due to using an unfamiliar netbook- hard to use for image editing