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Basically what it does is allow you to change the aspect ratio of an image, while avoiding the drawbacks of cropping or scaling, where parts of the image can be lost or distorted. 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In fact, the technique has since shown up in a number of other applications, one of which is Seam Carving GUI. This freeware application doesn't require installation and is fairly easy to use: just load an image, select the area you want to keep or remove when resizing, and select the target size. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techspot.com/news/33506-download-of-the-week-seam-carving-gui.html"><A target="_blank" href="http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4735-seam-carving-gui.html">try out Seam Carving GUI</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techspot.com/news/33506-download-of-the-week-seam-carving-gui.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.techspot.com/img/358838BA-5D11-4638-BD5B-29FF4926D7F5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techspot.com/news/33506-download-of-the-week-seam-carving-gui.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.techspot.com/img/04A30643-C791-49A8-91FE-D66EA16A1F03" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/71FC294D-C7A9-4156-A498-488E7EF149F9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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