A Better Way to Resize an Image
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http://live.pirillo.com/ – The other night I posted a video about a new picture editing website. A user left a follow up comment to that video, letting me know of yet another new site. This one is very different, and MUCH better than anything I’ve seen to work with photos.
Last week, I posted a video about resizing photos on the web. I received some excellent feedback on it, including a link to this excellent new site.
rsizr.com is a photo editing site that utilizes what is being called ‘intelligent image resizing’. This site uses a new type of algorithm called seam carving. Instead of making the entire picture smaller or larger, it takes parts of an image, retargets it, and preserves the important pixels in the photo.
This couldn’t be simpler to do. Upload a photo, and choose your settings. Watch the red lightning bolt as it targets all the important parts of your picture… almost like magic. The best part, of course, is the fact that this awesome site is free!
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October 9th, 2007
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josh
October 9th, 2007
at 8:46am
of course, there’s the youtube presentation that explains the technical details of seam carving: seamcarving.com]
David Bradley
October 9th, 2007
at 9:45am
There are all kinds of neat ways to resize, involving fractals and Photoshop plugins and such. But, perhaps the best tip I had which applies to absolutely all techniques is to resize by only 10% at a time, whatever method you use. So, if you want to grow an image to make it fit a web template better, and it’s half the size you need, grow it by 10%, then 10% again, then again, until it’s the size you need, that way you retain much of the detail and compression artefacts (common in jpeg etc) don’t get out of control too quickly. Same applies in reverse, shrink in 10% steps.
db
Hairgel_Addict
October 9th, 2007
at 11:52am
yay! I was mentioned in the video :)
The name of the website is in your favorite “web2.0 style”. Another example of “web2.0 styled” name of a website is flickr or any other website that has some missing vowels in it’s name.