A new technique shows resizing of images while keeping the important features of the image undistorted, also allows you to protect or remove part of the image with anything removes being automagically and seamlessly filled in.

I saw a video of this today and was amazed at how well it performed. Would probably be good for cutting ex's out of decent photos!

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that was wicked!

i love it when i learn stuff on qgl

Holy s***... that was pretty sweet.

nice technique

As someone working with websites, that was very VERY cool indeed.

thats awsome. where can you get that program?

wow, that is seriously time saving

wow thats absolutely f***ing amazing

That looks sweet!

wow. any ETA on a commercial product?

As someone not working with websites, that was very VERY cool indeed.

Would love to get my hands on that program.

i would love to get my hands on that program and use it on some of my wallpapers. most that i have are 1600x1200, and scale horribly down to 1440x900. they look all squashed and nasty.

i would love to get my hands on that program and use it on some of my wallpapers

Oh, very good point!

I've looked around for an implementation of the algorithm and haven't found any downloadable content. I don't think it'll be too long.

awesome

awesome find / movie / technique. thanks for sharing!