onOne Sofware Releases “Liquid Resize” Demo
Liquid Resize is a content aware image resizer that allows yo to resize images without the typical restrictions of the aspect ratio. You can download Liquid Resize as a standalone application for product review purposes from onOne Software, but in it’s final form, Liquid Resize is slated to be a Photoshop Plugin. (pricing not yet released) Even if you hate demo versions, the trail period is 3 months, and it’s fully functional, meaning you can save your images without watermarks and such.
[via: PhotoshopNews] [image by: bryce_edwards]
Liquid Resize is not unlike the online service Rsizr, but after playing around with it for a while, I can manage to get better results with Liquid Resize. I can also see how this would come in handy for web designers. For example, you already have your client-approved web design built and coded, then the client requests an an image to be replaced and it just won’t work without cropping. Liquid Resize could (but not always) come in handy.
Just like Rsizr, with Liquid Resize, you can ‘protect’ parts of the image from distortion in order to get your desired results.
Here’s a quick before and after that I played around with:
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It’s unfortunate that this was acquired by a commercial company. The youtube video demoing this innovation has been around for a while now.. and there were free implementations of this resize method available as plugins for GIMP, but no longer, probably due to OnOne’s acquisition.
Hopefully the research done by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir
is still available for anyone who can understand it, and we’ll still see some open-source implementations.
But there is still a standalone version of an application which uses this technique. It’s called SeaMonster (available at http://www.codeplex.com/seamonster) and developed by Mike Swanson.
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I just noticed that in your example, the richness or saturation in the color was definitely toned down. Was that a fluke or did the program actually do that?
> Ryan: Why “no longer”? Liquid Rescale (http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/) is still a plugin for Gimp, and it works very well (http://www.calcyum.org/liquid-rescale-applications-pratiques) (french!)
@Ryan: My standalone implementation is still available for free at my site. I don’t have protection/erasing though.
LiquidResize looks great, but I’m not very optimistic about its future. If you want it, I suggest you get it before CS4 gets released. If I remember correctly, Adobe has a clause in their SDK terms that says that plugin developers are not allowed to implement functionality found in Photoshop or other Adobe applications. Since one of the inventors of the algorithms is now working for Adobe, chances are that Photoshop CS4 is going to have this feature built-in, and thus it will become “illegal” for onOne to further develop the plugin with the Photoshop SDK. So if you don’t plan to upgrade to Photoshop CS4, but you want the feature, make sure to buy the plugin quickly since Adobe might stop onOne from selling it (even in the CS3 version) as soon as CS4 is released. This is one of the main reasons why I chose not to develop a Photoshop plugin version based on my own code. But maybe Adobe is nice and let’s them continue to sell the plugin for CS3, but as I said, don’t count on it.
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lets give it a try
Very Cool Stuff! Just in case you haven’t seen it, here is the link to the video that Ryan Malm was referring to in the first post of this thread. This video has been around for a while, but is still very impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc
I doubt that onOne has exclusive rights to this technology since the concept has been around so long. An implementation of it has also been integrated into the most recent release of ImageMagick and its accompanying iMagick API for linux systems.
I feel sorry for everybody who is waiting to buy this plugin when they start to sell this commercially.
The same algorithms are used in a free program
http://code.google.com/p/seam-carving-gui/
Not only does it have more options and features than Liquid Resize but it’s available for many Operating Systems.
I’ve been using it for a while now and it comes in handy a lot.
Just try! Don’t buy.
@Jaron,
Thanks a bundle for that link man! I know everyone will be thanking you!
~Bitt
one question about this image resizing softwares…. i came across “Genuine Fractals Print Pro v5″ does anyone know if it works as good as its supposed to? It’s described to be the best of its kind but i don’t have it yet.