Online demo of next gen image resizing method

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Online demo of next gen image resizing method

by Brad Linder Aug 31st 2007

Remember that crazy image resizing method that can change a photo without dramatically altering its composition? Of course you do, we just showed you the video on Wednesday, and we know your memory isn't that bad.

Anyway, now that Adobe has hired Shai Avidan, one of the guys behind the technology, it's just a matter of time before we see this tool implemented in Photoshop. But in the meantime, Patrick Swieskowski has used the basic principles demonstrated in Avidan's video and created a web-based demo.

The demo is very unpolished compared with the software in the video. For example, you can only shrink images, you can't make them larger. And we're not convinced that it does a great job of finding the best places to cut because some of the shrunken pictures look downright silly. But it'll have to tide us over until someone develops a better web-based demo. Or a finished application. That would be nice too.

[via TechCrunch]

Tags: image resizer, image resizing, ImageResizer, ImageResizing, Patrick Swieskowski, PatrickSwieskowski, shai avidan, ShaiAvidan

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