Online replacement for adobe? Aviary comes out of beta.

In the wake of the rise of the anti-piracy movement, more and more people are looking for a replacement for the expensive and cumbersome software packages that everyone is used to. Many people have already switched from Microsoft Office to free OpenOffice and NeoOffice, and some people just use Google Docs.

For me, as for a graphic designer, it has long been a question of replacing the Adobe software package, with its notorious Photoshop and Illustrator, which are updated almost every year. At the same time, they do not want to fall in price even for some tangible amount, so that it would be acceptable for purchase, and a stupid toad would loosen its grip.
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About it.

5 months ago I received an invitation to the online project Aviary , which by that time was in beta. Then I was struck by the ambition of this startup from the creators of worth1000.com . After all, their mission was: “to make it possible to create a software package .” The declared package of online programs included, and now is available to the public:

• Phoenix - image editing program (Photoshop Analog)
• Peacock - They call it visual laboratory because it is a unique product that combines many functions. I would call it an effect generator and something more, for working with raster images.
• Toucan - replacement to the adobovsky picker of flowers.

In the stage of comming soon are:
Raven (Alpha) is a vector editor (it is already in Alpha stage), as well as: audio, video, text editors, 3D modeling programs and many other interesting things.

About the price.

I will be honest, I really hoped that the project would be free, but we all remember the saying about cheese. Aviary came out of Beta yesterday with three of its products. For participants in beta testing, they give a one-year subscription for $ 99 (as I understand it, for the rest, $ 85 is more expensive), and in order to do this, about 15 hours are left at the time of writing this post.

My decision.

Yesterday I tried it again, I looked at the possibilities of the alpha version of the vector editor (it is most interesting to me), I studied the tutorials and source codes of other designers , I thought about whether it was worth it or not. Indeed, one of the drawbacks is that there is no work without an Internet. As a result, I decided to spend this $ 99, if not on a full-fledged work tool, then at least on the “if that” option.

Total.

I really hope that the world crisis will not affect these wonderful people and they will not stop working on the declared products, because with the development of the same WiMax networks in Moscow and other cities, I can get a mobile tool for work - always and everywhere, for reasonable money , freeing a dozen gigabytes on your hard drive.

UPD. Added the word online in the title :) so that it would not be so "loud"