One month back I had written about a content aware image rescaling technology. And I hoped that this technology will be incorporated in Gimp in the future. Well we didn't have to wait that long.
A liquid rescale GIMP plugin has already been released and you can download the source as well as binaries for a variety of Linux distributions and for Windows at the following location. The download link of the Windows version of the GIMP plugin does not seem to work so I found an alternate location here.
You can download and install this plugin and take it for a run.
Once you install the plugin, you can access it in GIMP by navigating to layer -> liquid rescale.
You can download and install this plugin and take it for a run.
Once you install the plugin, you can access it in GIMP by navigating to layer -> liquid rescale.
Fig: Liquid rescale plugin dialog box in GIMPPossible uses of the liquid rescale plugin
- Rescaling a 1600 x 1200 px wallpaper image to a smaller diamension (Eg: 800 x 600) without losing its clarity.
- Reducing the size of an image without losing any important parts.
11 comments:
That's a great news! This added features for GIMP will really help in graphics layouts. Good article, I enjoy it and thanks for sharing.
Thats good news. A windows screenshot at linuxhelp? Little irony. :)
It's also a great lulz creator:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ykdte9&s=2
(SFW)
Hi! How does one gain access to the feature selection and feature exclusion options of the plugin? When I tried it out, those were grayed out.
Very impressive, but not without it's flaws. Did it on a picture of three shots of Sarah Michelle Gellar and it did unspeakable things to her legs.
This is a great pluggin, and well blogged. When I last looked you hade to compile from source.
I did code my own version a while back in python, but liquid rescale works much faster!
need a plugin for the mac!
Seems it would be very useful for Vector Image Editing that includes Bitmap rendering and other affects where one would love to improve the on-the-fly scaling with a mix of vector/bitmap imagery.
I'm thinking Inkscape would be interested in this.
Great, when can we have this work auto magically in firefox?
To use feature preservation or discard, create a transparent layer and paint over (opaquely) the parts you want to preserve/discard, like in the video. Use one layer for preservation and one layer for discard, and select these layers in the dialog.
You have got to be kidding me! This plug-in scales images yet the options window wont scale to fit on my screen. ???
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