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!
