Intelligently resize images with Seam Carving GUI

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Intelligently resize images with Seam Carving GUI

by Brad Linder Oct 27th 2008

Ever wish you could resize an image without losing the elements that really make it pop? Seam Carving GUI is a utility that lets you remove the elements that don't matter in an image rather than just cropping the edges. So if you want to say, take a picture of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld and resize it without shrinking Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, Seam Carving GUI can remove parts of the background, bringing the two figures closer toegether and giving you a smaller photo without removing the elements you really care about.

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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Tags: seam-carving, seam-carving-gui

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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

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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