*** Content aware image resizing is coming to the iPhone ***

Savoy Software developed a highly polished image resizing application for the iPhone called Liquid Scale. Liquid Scale resizes pictures while magically keeping the important features of the image intact. It works on all kinds of images—intelligently removing or adding pixels to preserve important parts of the picture.

Liquid Scale enables new creative ways of editing images. It resizes pictures without deforming or cropping the content. In a fast and intuitive way pictures can be transformed to a new aspect ratio. The elegant iPhone application enables all the possibilities of content aware image resizing. Whether you want to change your image from portrait to landscape format without cropping interesting parts or deleting parts in the image without doing a complex retouch. The beautiful interface makes it fun to play with images from your photo roll.

To make this technique work on a small device like the iPhone where both memory and CPU power are a scarce resource our developers had to employ all their wizardry. After bringing down memory requirements to a 3rd of the initial implementation and squeezing every bit of performance out of the algorithms CPU time could be reduced by a factor of four.