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: