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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