gHacks technology news » smart image resize http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Smart Image Resizing and Manipulation http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/23/smart-image-resizing-and-manipulation/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/23/smart-image-resizing-and-manipulation/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:22:28 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/23/smart-image-resizing-and-manipulation/ It does not happen very often that I see a demonstration of a new technique and say something like “Wow, give it to me, NOW!” immediately after it finishes. This is one of the times that it actually happened. The real problem with images on websites is that they are more or less static. The webmaster selected a size for the image and this is the size that you see when you visit the page and it does not matter if you have a very small screen or a big one.

Text on the other hand can be resized quite easily to adapt to certain resolutions. Resizing images can also be problematic because they can easily look distorted or out of proportions when you do so. This new technique uses a system to determine the importance of pixels in an image and remove or resize the least important ones first.

This makes it possible to manipulate images without losing image quality or sharpness at all. Some tools can be used to mark spots on the image as important – faces for instance – or unimportant to further increase the quality of the resized image. Take a look at the demonstration video to get a closer look at this incredible technique.

via: OhGizmo!

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