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Adobe hires image resizing pioneer
There's a really cool video that's been making the rounds on the interwebs for the past week or so. It shows a next generation image resizing method that lets you stretch or shrink a picture without greatly altering its composition.
One of the guys behind this technology is Shai Avidan, a former staff member of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Adobe's John Nack writes that the company has hired Avidan, which we hope means we'll be seeing this sort of image resizing in Photoshop and other consumer applications soon.
We're pretty certain that if Adobe hadn't snatched up Avidan, Match.com would have done so. Just imagine the potential for tweaking profile pictures in personal ads. A little too short, or a little too round in the belly? Go ahead and make yourself thinner and taller with just a click of the mouse.
[via TechCrunch]
One of the guys behind this technology is Shai Avidan, a former staff member of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Adobe's John Nack writes that the company has hired Avidan, which we hope means we'll be seeing this sort of image resizing in Photoshop and other consumer applications soon.
We're pretty certain that if Adobe hadn't snatched up Avidan, Match.com would have done so. Just imagine the potential for tweaking profile pictures in personal ads. A little too short, or a little too round in the belly? Go ahead and make yourself thinner and taller with just a click of the mouse.
[via TechCrunch]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsnicletAug 29th 2007 10:05PM
Very neat!
PhilipAug 29th 2007 10:06PM
That looks so cool. I would love to have that in Photoshop.
ShoaibAug 30th 2007 9:05AM
that's absolutely amazing... i'm in awe
Todd HenkelAug 30th 2007 9:06AM
simply un-frickin-believable... this guy is a genius...
PeterAug 30th 2007 9:09AM
It is cool, but it's going to make it harder and harder to believe anything you see in a photo any more.
Emilio RamosAug 30th 2007 10:49AM
Pete pretty much whacked the nail on the head. Especially on the notoriously deceptive internet, how the heck are we supposed to take something to be true. There's going to have to be a lot of linking to original images all over the place for anything to retain its credibility...
Brad LinderAug 30th 2007 10:52AM
Yeah, I was thinking about writing something about how this technology would contribute to a lack of trust in images... but the truth of the matter is that you can't trust the images you see anyway.
http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/flat4.asp?id=6909
RileyAug 30th 2007 9:21PM
Hopefully something like this will eventually be included in the Gimp...
IrmgardSep 25th 2007 12:42AM
Hi,
If you are looking for a software to try out seam carving, take a look at http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget
The program that you can download there (for Windows and Linux, and free) is already highly optimized concerning speed, and apart from enlarging or decreasing image size you can also use masks to protect or delete certain parts of your image.
Have fun,
Irmgard