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Intelligently resize images with Seam Carving GUI
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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I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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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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