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Intelligently resize images with Seam Carving GUI
by Brad Linder Oct 27th 2008 at 5:00PM
The program can make a semi-educated guess as to which elements are safe to remove. Or you can highlight the areas you want to keep or remove before hitting the reize button.
There was a lot of talk about seam carving last year. The developer who came up with the original concept was hired by Adobe. And we've seen the technique show up i na number of other applications, including web based image editor FotoFlexer. But Seam Carving GUI is a simple tool that does one thing and does it both well and quickly. It's available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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someone said 8:22PM on 10-27-2008
we had an assignment on this thing(and other things). some people made it extremely effective and cool.
here's a link:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=d6rjjtt_0dmdvkjc5
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Jon said 7:02AM on 10-29-2008
There's also rsizr at http://rsizr.com/ which is a relatively decent web app for seam carving, regular resizing, and cropping.
I use it, and enjoy it immensely.
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