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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
who wants to try it. It is intended to become a Photoshop plug-in, but until then it is
being offered for trial as a stand-alone application.
Not a conventional rescaling or interpolation product (for that, the vendor recommends
its Genuine Fractals software), Liquid Resize lets you mask areas of the image for protection
or deletion, while providing two key controls for height and width. If you check
the “animated retargeting” box, you can see the resizing take place in real time, although
this slows the process on all but the fastest machines.
Comments
Always on the lookout for great new ideas, onOne Software purchased Liquid Resize in
early 2008 with a view to making it a Photoshop plug-in. Developed by the Austrian
husband-wife team of Ramin Sabet and Irmgard Sabet-Wasinger, it had already made
a big impact at SIGGRAPH 2007, where its unique capabilities were demonstrated.
However, it is not yet clear whether there will be a big demand for it, because most photographers
and layout designers are quite capable of preserving correct proportions
within the image, when they put their minds to it. For lazy Web designers, obliged to
squeeze images into odd shapes, it may be a blessing. It is certainly a remarkable and
intelligent tool, with an uncanny ability to preserve the proportions of individual
objects, whatever the shape of the frame.
Version: Liquid Resize Product Preview (2008)
OS: Windows XP SP2 and Vista; Mac OS X 10.4.10 or 10.5
RAM: 256MB recommended
Supported file formats: 8-bit JPEG (final version will support all major image formats)
Price level: Free public beta
Address: onOne Software, 15350 SW Sequoia Pkwy., Suite 190, Portland, OR 97224, United States
www.ononesoftware.com
SizeFixer
Vendor: FixerLabs
Purpose: Image rescaling without loss of sharpness; also available as a Web service
Description
SizeFixer is an image rescaler that can enlarge images for printing without loss of sharpness.
It comes in three main editions:
■ SizeFixer Home, for quadrupling the number of pixels from a digital camera or
camera phone.
■ SizeFixer SLR, for enlarging images up to 68 megapixels.
■ SizeFixer XL, for enlarging to 500 megapixels and beyond.