When you are having your Website built, it is often necessary to communicate changes you’d like to see to your designer.  Now there is a free online service that lets you take an instant snapshot of any Web page and then mark it up so your designer know exactly what you want done.  You can also use this to mark up listing pages to send to prospects. 

The site is called Aviary and so far its Web page capture tool only seems to work with FireFox.  To capture a Web page is simplicity itself.  Just go to http://aviary.com/launch/talon and enter in the URL of the page you want to capture.  In just a few seconds it will capture the full page (even the part that needs to scroll down to be viewed) and then launch the Aviary online image editor.  This image editor (also free) allows you to mark up and leave comments anywhere on the image and save it to your desktop.  A more powerful version of the Web page capture is a free FireFox extension that puts a button on your browser tool bar that will cause any page you are looking at (or portion of it if you want) to be captured instantly.

Aviary also provides a rather impressive array of other online image manipulation tools that rival some of the capabilities you would only find in high-end software like PhotoShop or Illustrator.  Keep in mind that all the Aviary tools are a work in progress (i.e. currently in Beta) so expect some glitches here and there.  The price is right and the fact that you can do this from any computer with a high-speed connection and FireFox browser makes it extremely convenient.  This is just another example of how powerful software capabilities that you could only get by installing expensive software is now as close as your Web browser!

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