| Seam Carving your Photos |
| Wednesday, 05 December 2007 | |||
For all of you digital photo editing nuts out there, check this out... A new method for image scaling and resizing called "Seam Carving" is starting to get popular with the big guys and there are already some early versions of software out. I just tried it out and it works perfectly. This new method of image resizing looks for seams of pixels with the least energy or least contrasts both vertically and horizontally in the image and then uses this to enable resizing without losing important image content such as human subjects or other detail. This technique can be used for reducing and enlarging images as well as removing items from the image which are not wanted. The seam carving technique was developed by a soon to be rich guy named Dr Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science. One piece of software out there right now is called Resizor...and does exactly what the name says. Not only does it resize images, but it applies the new technique of seam carving...plus, its free. Another cool tool to try is called Rsizr. This actually shows you in real time what the image is doing, etc. I am sure that if you do a Google search on seam carving, more software and tools will start popping up. I would almost bet that you can see the seam carving as an added feature in the future releases of Adobe Photoshop CS4 or other popular images editing programs. Check out the demo video: Reads: 454 Comments (0)
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