Rsizr: Intelligent Photo Editing On The Web
Seam carving isn’t just a mythical technique to be drooled over in web videos, a new site Rsizr.com can perform seam carving edits on your uploaded photos.
Regular readers will remember the stunning video we posted a while back that showcased a photo editing technology known as seam-carving. The demo video was the work of two scientists, one at Adobe and one that was hired by Adobe shortly after the video was released.
As most of us know, when you resize a photo using traditional tools, you just make everything in it smaller. Seam carving, on the other hand, is a smarter version of resizing. Seam carving software analyzes your photo and figures out what’s important and what isn’t. As you shrink an image the software eliminates the less important areas first, preserving the more important data.
To use rsizr’s seam carving tools just upload the image you want to edit and then click the “retarget” tab and select the “preserve” brush. Now paint the portion of the image you want to preserve when you resize the image. Click done when you’re satisfied and then use the sliders on the left side and top of the screen to shrink your image. You can also use the opposite technique to eliminate areas of the image by painting them with the “remove” brush.
You can export the results as either a JPG or PNG file. The picture at the top of this post features, from left to right, the original thumb, the traditional resized image and the resized image after telling rsizr to preserve the “eye” shape on the tree.
The results are pretty impressive, especially for a web-based implementation of seam-carving. Be sure to check out the demo video if you haven’t seen it before. And if you’d like to see some more example of Rsizr in action there’s an example gallery available.
[via Photodojo]
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