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A new and brilliant photo editing technique

The first time I saw seam carving in action, I thought it was an optical illusion. It isn’t. Back 1 month ago it was a proof of concept. Now you can finally use seam carving on your own images!

First, a quick summary of the technique: Typically, when you resize a photo, you
just make everything in it smaller. Simple, right? Well seam carving is like a
smarter version of resizing. Your computer analyzes the photo and figures out what’s
important and what isn’t, then it eliminates the less important areas first as you
shrink the image.

That means you can resize a photo to be half as wide without shrinking everyone in
it, or even make a photo wider without making it look stretched. You can even pick
areas you definitely want to leave alone, or areas you definitely want to lose,
making it a super easy way to remove an ex or a stranger from a otherwise lovely
photo.

Well, enough already. You really need to give it a try for yourself.

Rsizr Free seam-carving image resizing on the web

A demonstration video

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Predict the appreciation of a color-combination

Igor Asselbergs (who writes at http://www.livelygrey.com) has written a super guest post at COLOURLovers.

In it he highlights Aemelius Müller, professor at the academy of Winterthur, Switzerland, who devised a formula to predict the appreciation of a color-combination. Or put another way: “Müller was able to predict which combination of colors most people would probably like.”

Here is a preview taken from the article:

The Muller Formula - Taken from a post at COLOURLovers

Read on to see how to better predict ‘common taste’. The COLOURLovers blog homepage is here, and gets a hearty recommendation from me.

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