Filed under: Photo, Commercial, Imaging Tips, iPhone
Liquid Scale is an iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows you to resize images by removing unimportant elements in the photo, leaving the important ones untouched. It's a technique called seam carving that we've previously mentioned, but what's interesting here is that it's now available to be used on the iPhone.
For those that are unfamiliar with it, the seam carving technique analyzes images to determine the most and least important elements, and when you use it to decrease the size of an image it removes the least important parts first, in tiny 1 pixel wide slices. It can be a slow process, particularly on larger images, but the result is often much more compelling than what can be done with a simple crop. Of course, if you're not careful to use the effect sparingly, the results can go from impressive to flat-out weird pretty quickly.
Liquid Scale is available for $2US in the App Store.
[via Daring Fireball]
Liquid Scale removes unwanted picture parts to resize images on your iPhone originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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