Image Editing Software Seamonster

Seamonster is not your usual image editing software. It concentrates on one aspect that has become popular in the last years: Seam Carving. This technique basically consists of an algorithm that is detecting low priority areas in images and photos that are least likely – or not at all – to be missed. Conventional ways of reducing image sizes did either reduce all parts of the image equally or cut off parts of the border to achieve the image reduction.

Image editing software programs like Seamonster make it now possible to reduce the size of images without loosing to much of its quality. Take a look at the following image to get a better understanding of the technique involved if you have not seen it before.

Seamonster is a demonstration of this technique. It is a image editing software for the Windows operating system that requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0. Images can be loaded into the interface that consists of a preview area and a sidebar on the right containing the image editing tools.

The tools can be used to carve or squash the image by pressing the buttons of the same name. Several parameters can be defined in the sidebar from the seam function to bias mode and energy function.

The techniques can be applied horizontally, vertically or optimal which will select the best direction automatically.

It does not look like this software is going to be updated by the developer in the near future as it was build in 2007. It does work surprisingly well though although it is missing some features like manual selection of areas that should be removed first.

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Tags: image editing software, image-editing, seam carving, seamonster, Windows, windows software
Categories: Windows, software

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