Adobe demos Photoshop CS4′s content-aware scaling

Thursday, October 9, 2008 around 3 pm mountain time

Really cool feature of Photoshop CS4:

In a QuickTime screencast, Adobe’s Russell Brown demonstrates content-aware scaling, a feature of Photoshop CS4, due to be released this month. 

A lower-resolution YouTube demo from Lynda.com is available here, if you don’t want to download a huge QuickTime movie. The content is different, but you’ll get the idea.

Adobe licensed an algorithm that senses “dead” areas in photos, and resizes the image to avoid squashing or stretching every object.

In the video, Brown demonstrates resizing an image of four golfers, interactively removing space between and around the golfers, but leaving the golfers’ proportions correct. He also demonstrates resizing a Volkswagen bus, making it a more “economical” size, but automatically keeping the wheels round.

(via TUAW)

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 3 pm and is filed under applications, links.

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  1. Jackson Oct 14, 2008 / 6am

    This is awesome! I remember seeing a demo (unrelated to Adobe) for content aware scaling awhile back. In fact, you probably linked me to it. Regardless, it is great that it has made it’s way into CS4.

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