Included in an image editor an iResizer equivalent is convenient, but as you would use iResizer before or after working with the image in that editor, including it is not much more than a convenience. In a way today's GOTD, iResizer is like the regular resizing option or feature in an image editor in that you use it once, normally on the entire image, usually when you export/save. The same could be said of layers & most of the other tools in P/Shop, i.e. when you're going to copy/paste a selection somewhere, but with iResizer you're giving the software a strong hint on what to avoid resizing, &/or where to focus the resizing most strongly, so those fancy masking tools are of little use. In more traditional methods of image editing you want a precise mask, e.g. An app/plug-in that uses seam carving does the same sort of thing, determining the most important parts of an image, shrinking or stretching the rest. When you encode MP3 audio it works by analyzing the file, determining the most important parts of what you hear, & then discarding the other stuff. The actual shrinking/stretching is no different than what's used when you shrink/stretch an entire image, & has the same pros & cons, but what makes an iResizer-type app special is it performs that resizing *Selectively* to *parts of* rather than the entire picture. Wikipedia & other sites give a much better, in depth look into how seam carving works, but in a nutshell it's a way of analyzing content in the entire image, then the rest of the software shrinks or stretches parts of that image based on that analysis. But with iResizer at least I think that's more an extreme or unusual use for the tool, & by itself it can work fine. Sometimes you have to exclude part of the original image to get the desired results, & you can do that, exclude part of the image by putting everything else on it's own layer in P/Shop (& similar apps) - to do that sort of thing with Inpaint or iResizer I have to export that incomplete layer, run it through Inpaint/iResizer, then bring it back into P/Shop, which is a process that can get pretty involved, often to the point where it's just as fast/easy to use the clone tools. When you're getting rid of something using either Inpaint or iResizer the rest of the image obviously matters, a Lot. TeoreX also makes Inpaint, which uses the same sort of code but focuses more I think on removing parts of an image. I see too many technical issues to bother with a single use program, when you really need a multi-functional program such as Photoshop in order to handle all the pieces of the edit, and be able to step through it backwards and forwards, make adjustments at any step, and save each and every edit without starting a new file"įWIW I'd have to say it depends on what you're doing. #25: "An interesting idea, easily done in Photoshop. Using more traditional clone tools might or might not work better. TO actually accomplish that trash removal you *might* be able to use Inpaint on separate parts of the picture, then put the results back together - whether it was worth the effort or not depends on the texture, lighting, & detail of the house, front yard etc. The trash would be gone, but so would that portion of the house & everything else that was on that now missing slice. the result would be more-or-less like taking a pair of scissors & cutting that slice out of the middle of the photo print, then taping the remaining right & left pieces back together. Lets say you colored the pile of trash red, then narrowed the image by slightly more than the pixel width of that trash. What iResizer does is shrink or stretch an image along the vertical or horizontal axis or both. That would be difficult with most seam carving apps/plugins, & for the most part probably impossible for iResizer to handle on its own. removed trash but rest of photo distorted like a van Gogh although house was green selected." #19: "I tried to use it on a large photo of a house with a pile of trash in front.
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