Games, Life, and Stuff » photoshop http://www.techknight.com/blog Game development and more Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:35:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pencil from scratch in Photoshop http://www.techknight.com/blog/2008/08/30/pencil-from-scratch-in-photoshop/ http://www.techknight.com/blog/2008/08/30/pencil-from-scratch-in-photoshop/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:55:00 +0000 techknight http://www.techknight.com/blog/2008/08/30/pencil-from-scratch-in-photoshop/ Tonight I tried a tutorial from PSDTUTS to draw some pencils in Photoshop:

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]]> http://www.techknight.com/blog/2008/08/30/pencil-from-scratch-in-photoshop/feed/ 1 Liquid Rescale plug-in for The GIMP http://www.techknight.com/blog/2007/10/01/liquid-rescale-plug-in-for-the-gimp/ http://www.techknight.com/blog/2007/10/01/liquid-rescale-plug-in-for-the-gimp/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:40:00 +0000 techknight http://www.techknight.com/blog/2007/10/01/liquid-rescale-plug-in-for-the-gimp/ Ever since the Content-Aware Image Resizing presentation at SIGGRAPH 2007, there has been excitement around finally getting to play with the underlying software. Some developers have gone so far as to implement their own version of the techniques described in the paper by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir.

Yesterday, I saw a post on Digg about to one such implementation: the Liquid Rescale GIMP plugin by Carlo Baldassi.

So I’ve installed The GIMP (an open source image editing software similar to Photoshop) and tried out Liquid Rescale on a some images from Flickr:

Original (Photo by Chuq Von Rospach)

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The plugin is in early stages, so there is currently no way to select areas of importance. That means people sometimes get mangled:

Original (Photo by Boltronic)

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Even though they’ve hired Shai Avidan, Adobe hasn’t confirmed that the technique will make its way into Photoshop. However, it will be interesting to see third-party implementations grow and become more optimized.

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