Seam Carving (Content Aware Image Resizing)

[Rizz]

I'm not sure how old this technology is. I just stumbled across it from another site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc

This software allows you to resize an image without distorting the important bits (such as buildings, faces, people, etc.)

It even allows you to select a part of the pic and eliminate it as if it was never there.

The time we all could save in photo editing is freaking phenomenal! Imagine that portrait photo suddenly resized into a that perfect landscaped hole in your design, or vice versa!

I drool just thinking about it.

-Rizz

[SpugNothuson]

Quite impressive on some of those images.

I'd be interested to see some high resolution versions of images that have been resized in that software. See if I can spot the joins and therefore whether I'd be hapy with sending the image to print.

[PrintDriver]

What's the name of the software?

You did notice that it was a web-only application, right?

And I was skeptical of images on websites already... :D This'd give a whole new perspective to "I saw it on the web". Literally. LOL!
I would hope that in scenic specific content, the designer would resist the urge to use this tool.

[Rizz]

I think this software is in the first stages development now and what we saw was a pitch to some company.

It could start out as a web only application, but I see no reason it shouldn't make its way into print. I've gotten numerous photos in the past that were hard to fit into a layout because one part of the image is just too far out to one side and cropping/reducing the size just didn't work. Not to mention photos that had 'extra' things in the background that needed to be taken out.

I can see it will have limitations and probably wouldn't work on all photographs, but the technology used is pretty impressive.

I agree with you, Spug. If there are noticable seams, it probably wouldn't work for print.

-Rizz

[jumpbid]

Adobe has hired Ariel Shamir, one of the co-developers.