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View Full Version : Seam Carving, Magically Intelligent Image Resizing


Suhit Gupta
10-02-2007, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://photojojo.com/content/websites/rsizr-image-retargeting-seam-carving/' target='_blank'>http://photojojo.com/content/websites/rsizr-image-retargeting-seam-carving/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The first time we saw seam carving in action, we thought it was an optical illusion. It isn’t. For those of you who saw the demonstration video and academic paper (see links below) a month back, you know why we were so amazed. Alas, it was but a proof of concept at the time. But now you can finally use seam carving on your own images! First, a quick summary of the technique: Typically, when you resize a photo, you just make everything in it smaller. Simple, right? Well seam carving is like a smarter version of resizing. Your computer analyzes the photo and figures out what’s important and what isn’t, then it eliminates the less important areas first as you shrink the image."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/rsizr-feature.jpg" /><br /><br />In case you don't remember, there was <a href="http://www.seamcarving.com/">that awesome content-aware image resizing app</a> that we have posted on a few weeks ago. Well, it is research no longer, try the app out <a href="http://rsizr.com/">here</a>. It's awesome!

Chris Gohlke
10-03-2007, 02:56 AM
That is just cool every time I see it.

sundown
10-03-2007, 04:31 PM
I predict a similar tool will justify an upgrade to a future version of Photoshop. Every new version I keep wondering just what they could offer in the next version to make it worth the upgrade price. This just might be it.