Rsizr | Escalado inteligente de imágenes online | El futuro de la edición de imágenes digitales
Rsizr (Resizer | Escalado inteligente de imágenes) es una aplicación online gratuita donde redimensionar, escalar imágenes y que sin guardar las proporciones tengamos una imagen no distorsionada, con un aspecto real. Algo con lo que llevamos soñado todos los diseñadores y que se promete como novedad del próximo Photoshop CS4.
Rsizr ha implementado esta tecnología con un algoritmo que permite elegir las zonas simultáneamente en ambos ejes, X e Y. Puedes probarlo y maravillarte, subes la imagen y decide el nuevo tamaño con retarget, rsizr calculará que zonas eliminar y cuales clonar.
Muy interesante las opciones avanzadas para enmascarar las zonas que quieres proteger (preserve) o lo contrario (remove).
Os dejo la ayuda (en inglés)
opening pictures
When you first come to rsizr.com, you will see a large folder icon in the center of the window. Click on this icon and a file browser will pop up. Choose any JPG, PNG, or GIF image from your computer and open it. Due to restrictions in Flash, neither the image width or height can exceed 2880 pixels.
You’ll see a progress bar show up in the top left corner of the window. This displays the progress of the picture being sent to our servers. A few moments after this is complete, the progress bar will be replaced by the name of your file and you will see a second progress bar in the center of the window:
This progress bar monitors the download of your picture to the rsizr application. When the download is complete, your picture will be displayed.
what is retargeting using seam carving, anyway?
Image retargeting using seam carving allows an image to change sizes without distorting key areas of interest. Take this image for example:
If we want to widen the image so that it fits a particular screen size, we can use standard image scaling, but the result will look distorted:
With retargeting, pixels in the image that are in areas of interest are preserved, so the image is widened with little noticeable distortion:
For a more detailed explanation of how it works, check out the video created by seam carving pioneers Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. rsizr offers an implementation of this resizing technique using a novel algorithm that allows for real-time retargeting along the horizontal and vertical axes simultaneously.
retargeting on rsizr
Choose the «retarget» button from the resize functions tab:
You’ll see a vertical slider and horizontal slider surrounding your image:
To resize your image, you must first create seams. Moving the handle on the vertical slider will create horizontal seams, and moving the handle on the horizontal slider will create vertical seams.
horizontal seams – allow you to shrink or stretch the image vertically.
vertical seams– allow you to shrink or stretch the image horizontally.
Sounds complicated, but it’s rather simple when you’re doing it. Feel free to move the slider handles while seams are being calculated. For example, while seams are being calculated in one direction, you can move the other slider’s handle to tell rsizr to (once this direction is done calculated) calculate seams in the other direction. Or, if you want to calculate fewer seams than you originally set it for, just move the slider handle back.
Stopping seam generation. To stop seams from being generated, just move the slider back into the blue area.
Once seams are done calculating, you will see handles appear around your image that allow you to resize the image:
what exactly do these seams do?
The rsizr application looks at your picture and places seams where there are fewer high contrast areas. Because these high contrast areas (with many edges) generally contain key features in the image, they are avoided by seams. For example:
The vertical seams we calculated tend to avoid the building in the center because it has many edges. When we shrink the image horizontally, it is these vertical seams that are removed from the image:
And when we expand the image horizontally, it is these vertical seams that are duplicated in the image:
using the preserve, remove, and erase brushes
If you would like to change which areas are preserved or removed by seams, you can use the preserve and remove brushes:
When you are using these brushes, your cursor will reflect the size of brush that you are using. You can change the size of the brush using the Brush Size submenu on the right. When you are using these brushes, the image will go back to the size it was before any resizing you may have done in retarget mode.
preserve – Areas marked with the preserve brush will be avoided by horizontal and vertical seams. When the image is resized either down or up, these areas will remain unchanged.
remove – Areas marked with the remove brush will attract horizontal and vertical seams. When the image is resized to a smaller size, these areas will be removed first. When the image is resized to a larger size, these areas will be multiplied first.
erase – Use this brush to remove markings made with either the preserve brush or the remove brush.
An example of when you might want to use these brushes is if seams are going through areas of your image that you want to protect. For example, with the building image above (with expanded red seams), seams are passing through the bottom left corner of the center building, causing distortion in that area when the image is expanded:
To prevent this distortion, we use the preserve brush and paint that corner of the building:
You can use the zoom in and out buttons (or the wheel on your mouse) to change your view of the canvas. Click Done on the submenu and any seams you had set will be recalculated. The new seams will avoid the marked areas:
And now there is no distortion in the bottom left corner of the center building:
rescaling
Choose the «rescale» tab to access this function. Resizing your image using rescaling, unlike retargeting, will treat each pixel of your image exactly the same. Rescaling works similarly to the resize functions of many image editing programs. To rescale, simply drag the handles on the sides of the image until the image is of the desired scale.
Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard while rescaling to maintain the proportions of your image:
You can also specify exact dimensions for the image by typing new pixel values into the Width and Height fields in the submenu:
Hit Enter on your keyboard to apply the changes. If you click the Maintain Proportions checkbox before you enter in a pixel value, the image will be rescaled by the original proportions of your image.
Starting over. If you want to undo your rescaling changes, click Reset.
Because the original image is modified when you rescale, if you go back to retarget mode, any seams you had previously calculated will be reset.
cropping
Choose the «crop» tab to access this function. Cropping an image allows you to reframe the image by removing unwanted areas along the sides. To crop, click to indicate one corner of the desired crop area and drag across your image until you arrive at the opposing corner:
You can see the dimensions (in pixels) of your current crop area in the submenu. Once a crop area is defined, you can reposition it by clicking and dragging it. Click the Crop button to crop at the indicated crop area.
You can now go on to crop this cropped image, if you like. Or, if you want to start over with your uncropped image, click Reset. For precise crops, you can zoom in using the zoom in and out buttons or using your mouse’s wheel:
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