{"id":101,"date":"2007-11-07T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T09:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/101.htm"},"modified":"2020-04-04T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:44:49","slug":"reduce-image-size-not-image-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/reduce-image-size-not-image-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Image Size, not Image Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#990000\"><font color=\"#660000\"><small>by<\/small><b><small> R Kamalathasan,<\/small><\/b><small> Assistant Manager (Projects),<\/small><b><small> The Magnum Group<\/small><\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Have you ever thought about<\/b> using super-intelligent image resizing software to minimize image filesize?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Are you wasting a lot of time<\/b> trying to resize images without causing their quality to drop like a stone?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Ok, then you should know about \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamcarving.com\/\">Seam Carving<\/a>\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>What\u2019s \u201cSeam carving\u201d?<\/b> No idea what it means?\u2026 ok, here\u2019s a small description:<\/p>\n<p><b>It\u2019s an image resizing technique<\/b> based on removal of pixels identified as zero importance by a special algorithm developed by Shai Avidan and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.idc.ac.il\/arik\/\">Ariel Shamir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>To get a better idea<\/b> about the capabilities of seam carving technique watch this video: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamcarving.com\/\">http:\/\/www.seamcarving.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mswanson\/archive\/2007\/10\/23\/seamonster-a-net-based-seam-carving-implementation.aspx\">SEAMonster <\/a><\/b>and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegedanken.com\/retarget\/\">Liquid Resize<\/a> <\/b>are some of the wonderful programs that do image seam carving and they are free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>There is also <a href=\"http:\/\/rsizr.com\/\">a site which does online image seam carving<\/a><\/b>. Check it out and get your images resized magically to<br \/>\nyour needs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cSeam Carving\u201d. What\u2019s \u201cSeam carving\u201d? No&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-news","category-engineering-drafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5715,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/5715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}