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I can't wait for this, it's pretty crazy.

Photoshop get what photoshop want!

Good for him. It's nice to see people rewarded for their hard work.

Wow that was amazing!! I can't wait for this!

holy ***** crappers. and i can come up with tons of times i've wished i could do this, as a graphic designer.

Great tech, and I can't wait to see it implemented. This could make websites even more re-sizable now, and this will def. help in browsing the web with a mobile device.

I'd buy it just to never have to search for a panoramic photo for a web layout ever again.

now the newbies have no excuse to strech photos.

I could resize all my old wallpapers 1024x768 to 1280x720 in a snap, glad i didn't deleted'em.

wow, who says magic isnt real?

It's almost amazing that nobody thought of this before. And props to Adobe for hiring the guy rather than taking the cheaper route and stealing the algorithm he explains in the video.

This will greatly reduce my disdain for my idiot clients.

Now I can tell everyone that first there was my girlfriend on the picture, but I removed her.

very interesting technology. i can see this saving huge amounts of time for photographers and content editors in photoshop.

It would be nice if browsers themselves could do this on-the-fly. Making fluid designs with masthead graphics that adapt to the users' resolution would be incredible.

Cant wait to try it! Perfect excuse to waste a weekend.

The Weekly World News will now have better quality pictures of Bat Boy.

This would be a great addition to widescreen TVs... SDTV stretched as it is now is awful, so are black bars on the side.

well that algorithm has some genius in it. it does something really impressive yet is very very simple, anyone with basic programming skills could implement it

Wow. You dont see impressive things like this often.

Funny how the brain works. Or doesn't.

I spent a good 20 seconds reading the title as "Adobe Hi-Res ..." trying to figure out what the hell the author was trying to say.

incredible. i hope he retains the license. this is going to make him RICH!

I viewed this in person at Siggraph, and it's better than this video shows. the level of control you have over the image resizing is incredible. the quality of the resized images is nothing short of amazing. plus, it's lossless, in that the information is still part of the image, not discarded, and can be restored easily. It provides a level of intelligence to the image that is built around design and presentation rules. Can't wait to see production, plug-ins etc. developed around the technology.

Interesting algorithm. I'd like to see it applied to expanding 4:3 images to 16:9. I think it would look much better than the stretch algorithm of changing the aspect ratio as you move away from the center of the picture.

looks so easy... even my mother, will soon kick ass at Photoshop....

Jesus... that is VERY "digg this"

'shopped...

although seriously awesome tech, you guys should check out the potential problems outlined on the slashdot comments

this could have saved me an hour today. and every day this week. where can i get it? This is worth $1000. maybe more.

that was impressive

That is amazing.

I hope he licenses it free to mozilla or for general open source use.

Funny how the picture in his profile (http://www.merl.com/people/avidan/) is awkwardly resized in the browser... http://www.merl.com/people/images/avidan.jpg

Very cool. The moment I saw this I wanted to use it. Not surprised that this kind of technology would get so much attention and get snagged up. Go adobe!

'Reality' just got more pliable...greeeaaaat

id like to punch some small children right now out of pure excitment.

add that and the algorithm that replaces missing parts of the picture.... algorithms are magic

THis is so greeat, I love it! I will even pay $500 for this if it were a plugin for cs3, more if it were a standalone application

go GIMP coders go! get this under a GNU license before adobe can put out a product of their own.

Visual media will be forever changed. Wait till these algorithms are applied to digital video and video games. Depth perception will become so much more realistic.

Oh look, all the photoshop pirates are excited.
FFS I wish they'd open sourced it instead. Hopefully there will be a free alternative sometime soon.

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that is truly awesome!

I think I speak for us all when I say: HOLY LIVING *****!

Gotta hand it to this guy; this is truly a breakthrough--especially if it someday gets implemented in Adobe products, which I'm sure everyone will be pulling for.

However, as a photographer, I see this as a problem. Hopefully all you who will be using this for its timesaving streamlining benefits will still see a value in using quality photographs, instead of fixing up your "i shot this myself" kitch pics. No amount of digital enhancement can beat a photograph with the utmost in quality.

Some geek already has made an application of this right after he saw this video. Here it is: home.arcor.de/tit4tat/SeamCarving.jnlp

I like to think we helped him get the job.

This is amazing! Can't wait

This is now available as a Photoshop plugin!

See http://blog.picutel.com/2007/09/06/advanced-photo-resizing-in-adobe-photoshop/