Adobe hires image resizing pioneer

by Brad Linder Aug 29th 2007

There's a really cool video that's been making the rounds on the interwebs for the past week or so. It shows a next generation image resizing method that lets you stretch or shrink a picture without greatly altering its composition.

One of the guys behind this technology is Shai Avidan, a former staff member of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Adobe's John Nack writes that the company has hired Avidan, which we hope means we'll be seeing this sort of image resizing in Photoshop and other consumer applications soon.

We're pretty certain that if Adobe hadn't snatched up Avidan, Match.com would have done so. Just imagine the potential for tweaking profile pictures in personal ads. A little too short, or a little too round in the belly? Go ahead and make yourself thinner and taller with just a click of the mouse.

[via TechCrunch]

Tags: image editing, image resize, ImageEditing, ImageResize, photo resiziing, PhotoResiziing, photoshop, shai avidan, ShaiAvidan

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

niclet said 10:05PM on 8-29-2007

Very neat!

Philip said 10:06PM on 8-29-2007

That looks so cool. I would love to have that in Photoshop.

Shoaib said 9:05AM on 8-30-2007

that's absolutely amazing... i'm in awe

Todd Henkel said 9:06AM on 8-30-2007

simply un-frickin-believable... this guy is a genius...

Peter said 9:09AM on 8-30-2007

It is cool, but it's going to make it harder and harder to believe anything you see in a photo any more.

Emilio Ramos said 10:49AM on 8-30-2007

Pete pretty much whacked the nail on the head. Especially on the notoriously deceptive internet, how the heck are we supposed to take something to be true. There's going to have to be a lot of linking to original images all over the place for anything to retain its credibility...

Brad Linder said 10:52AM on 8-30-2007

Yeah, I was thinking about writing something about how this technology would contribute to a lack of trust in images... but the truth of the matter is that you can't trust the images you see anyway.

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/flat4.asp?id=6909

Riley said 9:21PM on 8-30-2007

Hopefully something like this will eventually be included in the Gimp...

Irmgard said 12:42AM on 9-25-2007

Hi,
If you are looking for a software to try out seam carving, take a look at http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget

The program that you can download there (for Windows and Linux, and free) is already highly optimized concerning speed, and apart from enlarging or decreasing image size you can also use masks to protect or delete certain parts of your image.

Have fun,
Irmgard

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