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Seam Carving Makes Rsizr an Intelligent Image Resizer

Rsizr is a flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG and GIF images. You can resize your image on your browser without having to open a desktop image editor. It sounds pretty much like most online image resizer out there, but there’s more;

What makes this particular web application different from other image resizer apps out there is that it makes use of a new resizing algorithm called seam carving. It as a method of image retargeting that tries to keep intact areas in an image that are richer in detail. The algorithm alters the dimensions of an image not by scaling or copping, but rather by intelligently removing pixels from the image that carry little importance.

With Seam Carving, it is now possible to reduce or enlarge pictures by a wide range, while still retaining details. In Normal image scaling, it is often not possible to scale about factor greater than 2 or less than 0.5, without losing much of the images quality.

Watch the video demo:

Some images that shows how the app works

Tags: Image Resizer, resize, Rsizr, Seam Carving

JustResizeIt: A Free Image Resizer Widget

JustResizeIt is a downloadable free desktop widget that allows you easily resize images. The simple widget runs on Adobe Air so there’s no problem whatsoever whether you’re using Windows, OS-X or Linux.

How It Works:

You can create widgets that define how the images will be resized. The best part is that you can create multiple widgets – one for each of your resizing needs.

For example, you can create a widget for sending photos in mail with a maximum size of 800 pixels. Or, you could create a widget for resizing photos to upload into a web gallery at 50% of their original size.

To use the widget, simply drag and drop photos from a folder into JustResizeIt. Wait a few seconds for the app to process the images and drag and drop the images again into an e-mail, office document or a folder. It’s so easy to use and hassle free that even a novice computer user who knows how to drag and drop will encounter no trouble at all.

Another great thing about JustResizeIt is that you can copy and redistribute unlimited copies of the software provided that you comply with their License and Agreement. As long as you don’t charge for the copy of the software, you should have no problem redistributing it.

You can also use JustResizeIt to promote your brand by redistributing the software along with your company logo. You can customize JustResizeIt to your company’s corporate identity standards and redistribute it. Simply contact the guys form JustResizeIt and get your custom widget. It is not entirely clear if they’ll charge you for the design – which is pretty fair if they do.

Tags: images, JustResizeIt, Photos, resize, widget

ResizeImage: Resize Images Online

ResizeImage is another dead simple web app that, as you might already figured out, resizes images for you. There are several apps online that you can use to crop or resize your images, but this is by far the easiest and fastest to use.

You only need to drag the photo to fit the size that you desire if you use the advanced resize. The easy resizing tool is very user friendly and visually helpful. You can see the image resize in real time as you click the size that you might want. The app also displays the dimensions of your current image. This is very helpful if you are resizing an image to use on blogs and websites. The advanced resize will allow you to break the image’s proportion when resizing and create a custom size for your image. You have to keep in mind though that breaking the proportion of the image is not advisable for it destroys the quality.

ResizeImage is a simple tool that works great. No login necessary. Just upload your image and get it resized within seconds. There is also a cropping tool that you can use to crop first before resizing. Oh and ResizeImage can also be used as a temporary image host. Uploaded images are hosted on the server for one week. Feel free to link to your image during this period.

Tags: crop, image, resize, ResizeImage

Resize Unresizable Windows and Kill Splash Screens

Sometimes it gets annoying when you came across a window and you want to resize it for a specific purpose, maybe to fit better in your screen or to read the text better, an cannot resize it because the programmer wants it that way. Here is a cool Windows application (Windows only) which I found in AskTheAdmin that will let you resize windows that are unresizable. This application called ResizeEnable will work on all non resizable windows properly and most of them will respond correctly but some will not.

The application is very small (only 39KB) and installs in a flash. Just download the application named ResizeEnable here. Install it and you will see a small icon in your system tray and you are good to go to resizing heaven. ResizeEnable sits in the background and attaches itself into Windows via three ‘Hooks’:

• The first hook is so that it can see which windows are created/destroyed, in which it attempts to alter the window’s style so that it can be resized.
• The second hook intercepts all messages for every single window to see if it is a message associated with resizing a window that it has previously altered the style of. If the message is associated with sizing, it then resizes all the child windows (Buttons, Edit boxes and so on) simply by scaling them to fit the new windows size.
• The third hook spots whether the mouse has been pressed in the ‘sizing area’ of a window and takes care of doing all the work of resizing the window.

The makers of ResizeEnable (DigiTallis) also have another cool app that you might want to check out. It’s a tiny application (30KB) called SplashKiller that sits in your system tray and attempts to hide, or kill, those splash screens you get when an application is loading. So if you are a splash screen hater then this app is for you. You have to note though that the window isn’t actually hidden, it just get’s moved offscreen, so if you have a multimonitor setup, you might still see it on one of your monitors. So this doesn’t mean that your application will load faster, it only tends to keep the splash screen from showing at the center of your screen.

Source: [ AskTheADmin ]

Tags: application, ask the admin, Download, resize, resizeenable, spashscreenkiller, splash screen killer, Windows