{"id":12473,"date":"2007-09-04T21:23:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T21:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/09\/image-resizing-coolness-comes-to-flash.html"},"modified":"2007-09-04T21:23:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T21:23:42","slug":"image_resizing_coolness_comes_to_flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/04\/image_resizing_coolness_comes_to_flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Image-resizing coolness comes to Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg\">content-aware image resizing technology<\/a> that I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/08\/imaging_heavy_h.html\">mentioned last week<\/a> is starting to be put to the test on the Web.&#160; Developer Patrick Swieskowski has created an <a href=\"http:\/\/swieskowski.net\/carve\/\">interactive Flash-based demo<\/a> that lets you scale an image horizontally or vertically.&#160;To prove that it&#8217;s not a canned\/pre-processed implementation, the Flash UI lets you specify other images to process. (<a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/33\/54641737_8254d1e29a_o_d.jpg\">Here&#8217;s one I tried<\/a>.)&#160; John Dowdell <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/jd\/archives\/2007\/09\/content-aware_r.cfm\">links to more good resources<\/a>, including experiments and info from <a href=\"http:\/\/hectorgon.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/seam-carving-my-quick-and-dirty.html\">Henry Yee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeropointnine.com\/blog\/seam-carving-in-as3-with-source\">Lee Felarca<\/a> (another SWF-based demo), and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.je2050.de\/2007\/09\/02\/content-aware-image-resizing\/\">Joa Elbert<\/a> (including source code). <\/p>\n<p>Where will all this lead?&#160; Hard to say, though it&#8217;s clearly touched  nerves, good and bad. Some photogs are <a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.typepad.com\/the_online_photographer\/2007\/08\/content-aware-i.html\">dispirited<\/a>, though it makes me wonder where, and by whom, the line between acceptable &amp; unacceptable manipulation is drawn (&quot;Skies aren&#8217;t that black, Ansel&quot;).&#160; Who gets to say that color gels &amp; graduated ND filters are okay while digital resizing isn&#8217;t?&#160; Me, I welcome tools that help tell great stories. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The content-aware image resizing technology that I mentioned last week is starting to be put to the test on the Web.&#160; Developer Patrick Swieskowski has created an interactive Flash-based demo that lets you scale an image horizontally or vertically.&#160;To prove that it&#8217;s not a canned\/pre-processed implementation, the Flash UI lets you specify other images to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}