Reduce Image Size, not Image Quality

by R Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group

Have you ever thought about using super-intelligent image resizing software to minimize image filesize?

Are you wasting a lot of time trying to resize images without causing their quality to drop like a stone?

Ok, then you should know about “Seam Carving”.

What’s “Seam carving”? No idea what it means?… ok, here’s a small description:

It’s an image resizing technique based on removal of pixels identified as zero importance by a special algorithm developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir.

To get a better idea about the capabilities of seam carving technique watch this video: http://www.seamcarving.com/

SEAMonster and Liquid Resize are some of the wonderful programs that do image seam carving and they are free.

There is also a site which does online image seam carving. Check it out and get your images resized magically to
your needs!

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