LiquidResize: Content-aware image resizing
Most reading the title for this article would most likely want to skip over it seeing nothing special in 'image resizing'. But, this is indeed special. Should you have a few minutes and the ability to appreciate some good tech-talk you should watch this YouTube video. Then, afterwards when you're wondering, "How the hell can I do some of that?" I'd have you check this out. It's a plugin for the GIMP that allows you to be able to do that fancy stuff from the video. I'll admit, it's not as on-the-fly realtime as the video displayed but, with a little bit of a shove in the right direction *shove* I think you'll be able to figure it out.
Arch Linux Users:
To get this handy feature for your system you will have to visit the AUR (or just use this link to get the PKGBUILD for the LiquidResize Libraries and this link to get the PKGBUILD for the LiquidResize Plugin itself.) Put those PKGBUILD files somewhere separate from one another (seeing as they have the same name and all) and run $makepkg PKGBUILD, first on the libraries. When it's done, install by #pacman -S liblqr*.pkg.tar.gz, then run $makepkg again but this time on the PKGBUILD for the plugin and when it's done install by #pacman -S gimp-plugin-lqr*.pkg.tar.gz.
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NOTE: I had LiquidResize keep both the boat and the distant mountain in perspective, that's why they look the same as the original.
