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Resizing images with seam carving technology

Rruben send me a link to an interesting software called Resizor which is an image resizer that utilizes the newly introduced seam carving technology to create impressive results. Instead of modifying the dimensions the same percentage throughout the image it analyzes areas that are less important and removes or adds to those with priority.

The tool itself is very easy to use with only a few options to choose from. If there is something that I would have to criticize it would be that the program window cannot be resized. Only a small portion of large pictures is shown and you have to use scrollbars to look at other parts of the image.

Resizor needs some tweaking to become a real great software but what I have seen so far is impressive enough already. It shines when resizing images with wide panoramas. It lead to some distorted images however. I tried it on an image of a person sitting in a chair with only a few pixels on the left and right and it resampled the image so that the persons head would be really big while the rest of the body much smaller in comparison.

resizor

There should be a way to define areas of importance which would really mean that distortions like this would not happen anymore.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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