Amazing Image Resize
July 21st, 2008 in Articles, News by kailoonAny of you are using photoshop to resize image? Or other software? Do you find that it is kind of troubles when you are going to resize a 100px X100px into a 500px X 100px without losing any quality of the image, and, also without cropping any of it? Let say you are really good in photo edit. But, how about make something disappear from a photo and resize it and with all the condition I mentioned before? And, make it just a seconds? I can’t do that. But I found this video from youtube today and I just can’t believe what I am watching! There is only one thing in my mind, how if this technique can be implemented in web design?
The Video
If we can use this in web design. So, we no need to border much with the complicated layout and we can all go for fluid layout with all kind of design! Have a nice day! By the way, the video is about 1 year ago. Anyone of you know about this software? Is it in the market right now?
we can do the same with photoshop ;)
Here is a link to the demo vidéo of the last Photoshop World.
http://media.libsyn.com/media/cspodcast/podcast-IA-PSW08VegasKeynote.mp4
That techno is called “Seam Carving” and is going to be integrated in Photoshop Cs4 (extended or not, i don’t know).
I don’t think is vector format. It seem like they can generate something according to the current graphic. I have no idea. But it seem promising :)
Yeah, I watch this before. It was amazing, Perhaps they convert it to vector format?
Veselin :
Hi there, I agree with you, the first option is something that you need to wait for N years … I will go for javascript in this case. But I also not really good in that! Haha…
mike :
Oh, really? I didn’t notice that :P
E.T.Cook :
Thanks for your sharing :)
Checkit out (for GIMP):
http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:start
http://rsizr.com/ is the web service.
This is fairly old news, this technology came out last year.
There are multiple pieces of software that do this, as well as a few online services.
One of the more popular version is Liquid Resize:
http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=36
Just look up the term “content aware resizing”. There is a free site online that will do content aware resizing but I don’t remember the address…it was some web 2.0 type name like resizr or something like that.
I believe Adobe acquired this technology and showed it off at a MAX conference last year.
I worked for one color correction and retouching studio. There was a Photoshop plugin that helped making complicated masks. This plugin had price about $6000 :) so I think this software will be much expensive. However this is a great idea for web images. Currently I am front-end developer and often I have the problem with the different proportions of the images. I use the crop method for now, but now I have some inspiration to create something like this :)
I think there are two ways for implementation in web – first this could be added as a browser support, but as I see the normal resizing in the most browsers, I think this won’t be implemented soon :). The second way is with JavaScript, but I have absolutely no idea how this could be implemented.