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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. That means you can resize a photo to be half as wide without shrinking everyone in it, or even make a photo wider without making it look stretched. You can even pick areas you definitely want to leave alone, or areas you definitely want to lose, making it a super easy way to remove an ex or a stranger from a otherwise lovely photo. Well, we’ve said enough. You need to give it a try for yourself. (Or watch the amazing demo video!) Rsizr — Free seam-carving image resizing on the web See also… Liquid Resize for GIMP Actionscript sourcecode and examples Seam Carving academic paper (PDF) → See more Photo projects, DIY ideas, and Gear ← → Get it all free: Subscribe by email or RSS ← De-Pixelize Your Photos Instantly with VectorMagic Photojojo’s Guide to Scary Photo Pumpkins Halloween Photo Tips — Our Ghoulish Guide to Scary Snaps |
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[...] Thanks to Amit and the crew at Photojojo, I ran across this video / presentation from this year’s SIGGRAPH. [...]
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[...] Quote from photojojo.com: “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.” Posted by Dirk Filed in Uncategorized [...]
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[...] Quote from photojojo.com: “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.” Posted by Dirk Filed in Uncategorized [...]
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[...] October 1st, 2007 7:29 am: There’s a new image resizing technology out there that blows my mind. It’s called seam carving. Here’s a working web tool that lets you give seam carving a try (via Photojojo). I can’t stress how unbelievable it is. Did I mention it’s amazing? Probably the biggest innovation in digital photo retouching in years. I can’t be the only one who wants a Photoshop plugin for this. [...]
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[...] If you’re a fan of the open source image editor GIMP, you can download and install the Liquid Rescale GIMP plug-in to get liquid rescaling results (after you install it by moving the downloaded files into your GIMP directory, you’ll see the Liquid Rescale option under the Layer menu). If you don’t feel like installing anything, you should try out the Rsizr webapp, which does the rescaling from the comfort of your browser. Both tools are a good deal slower than what you see in the very cool video above, and neither are implemented to the full extent of what you’re seeing in the video, but the results are still promising. Liquid Rescale GIMP pluginRsizr [via Photojojo] [...]
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[...] If you’re a fan of the open source image editor GIMP, you can download and install the Liquid Rescale GIMP plug-in to get liquid rescaling results (after you install it by moving the downloaded files into your GIMP directory, you’ll see the Liquid Rescale option under the Layer menu). If you don’t feel like installing anything, you should try out the Rsizr webapp, which does the rescaling from the comfort of your browser. Both tools are a good deal slower than what you see in the very cool video above, and neither are implemented to the full extent of what you’re seeing in the video, but the results are still promising. Liquid Rescale GIMP pluginRsizr [via Photojojo] [...]
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[...] In de laatste Photojojo Nieuwsbrief stond een interessante nieuwe techniek om afbeeldingen te vergroten of te verkleinen. Soms past een plaatje qua boodschap goed bij een webpagina, maar werkt het formaat niet mee. Zeker als je een afbeelding alleen breder of hoger wilt maken krijg je vaak te maken met een (onbruikbaar) vervormde afbeelding. [...]
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[...] Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field. –Peter Adams We’ve a couple digital cameras, including a nice Canon Digital Rebel XT. Unfortunately, everything has a learning curve whilst i operate on a 180° angle. One day soon, though, i’ll likely get out of my own way and start taking pictures in earnest. Meantime, it’s admiration for the effort of others. Lovely, then, to hit “random” and find this shot and this one. Enjoy the photoblog of Andrew Rugge. Oh… and i see Coolstop is in the same frame of mind. Speaking of photos, i found this at Photojojo: Seam Carving, Magically Intelligent Image Resizing. Very coolio. If you don’t have a smile, i’ll gladly share a few. TGImp3F. Vote. Dogs Don’t Send Flowers. Gaston Caba. Free Halloween Masks to tie to your melon head. Food for designers’ dirty little mice: Dirty Mouse. Yes. It’s true. I am indeed a voyeur. But only in a safely from my cozy room, cup of hot chocolate, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata playing softly in the background kind of way. Meditations on a leather-bound journal. Interactive Fiction Competition Games: The list. Download link. Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. View and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons attribution license. MP3s: Dirty Little War. Gnarls Barkley: Crazy. Put The Sun Back. Boll Weevil. In Games: Bathroom Escape. Mild Cabin. Ubersetzung. Guardian Popon. In Recipes: Chocolate Chip: A Modern Classic. (Tastespotting) Retail Therapy: Wilton Silly Witch Feet Reusable Silicone Baking Cups. Points of Interest: Creative inspiration. Robert Craig. Lucky Find Gazette 12. Revisits: Haluz 2. Corey Arnold. Ballyvaughan Story. What What. Feed. Appropriate for Halloween Link: Boo! Found Sentence: He was amazed to discover that his new phone allowed him to record his own ringtones. He made one he was especially proud of. It was a recording of himself shouting: You forgot to turn your phone off, retard! Listening To: Listening To: North Mississippi Allstars. In fact, you’d have to pry their Electric Blue Watermelon cd from my cold dead hands. Kinda partial to Moonshine, Mean ‘Ol Wind Died Down, Deep Blue Sea, and Bang Bang Lulu, but they’re all good. Listen to clips here. When there’s time tonight, i’ll load my faves into the player on the music page. “Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.” Bill Hicks Which tv show last obscured your third eye? [...]
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[...] Rsizr: web-based photo cropping / resizing. It also does something called seam-carving (here’s an explanation of what that is) but how to do that isn’t very clear. It’s great, though, if you just need to crop a photo and don’t have Photoshop or want to deal with GIMP / GIMPshop. [via lifehacker] [...]
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[...] The technology behind the content-aware image resizing video I linked to last month is now available as an end-user product at rsizr.com. I haven’t had a proper play with it yet, but it looks fun! Photojojo have links to a (free) plugin for The GIMP and a (not-free) plugin for Photoshop. [...]
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[...] See also… Rsizr — Free seam-carving image resizing on the web A magically intelligent seam-carving, image-resizing tool [...]
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[...] Rsizr: web-based photo cropping / resizing. It also does something called seam-carving (here’s an explanation of what that is) but how to do that isn’t very clear. It’s great, though, if you just need to crop a photo and don’t have Photoshop or want to deal with GIMP / GIMPshop. [via lifehacker] [...]
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