Content aware resizing (using the seam carving algorithm) is also available as a plugin for GIMP:

http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/

Here's the presentation (SIGGRAPH 2007) from the authors of the library used in the plugin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg&feature=playe...

I wonder if techniques similar to this will be included somehow in CS5:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pro/papers/videoEnhanceme...

Well done. But, at what point of amazement do Adobe engineers have to worry about being burned as witches?

We implemented a seam carving algo in our computer vision course. We found "perfect" (minimum cost) seams, so the algo was very slow. It's great that more research has gone into faster (although perhaps not as theoretically "perfect") algorithms.

If we're allowed to destroy our pictures by non-ratio-holding resizes, then we should be able to destroy our pictures with cool seam carving techniques. Think of the possibilities!

"coming in CS5" is misleading.

CS5.org is not run by Adobe, who haven't said anything about this being included in CS5 products.

Links to the researchers if you are interested:

http://www.danbgoldman.com/

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~elishe/

http://www.connellybarnes.com/work/

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~af/

Great work guys.

I haven't even learned one tenth of the features in CS3 yet. And yet, surprise, surprise, I seem to do just fine. More feature bloat as far as I'm concerned.

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