Welcome

This site is about a GIMP plugin called

It is a free, open source frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library, which provides an implementation of the Seam Carving algorithm as described in this paper by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir.

The Seam Carving procedure aims at resizing pictures non uniformly while preserving their features, i.e. avoiding distortion of the important parts.

The plugin supports manual feature selection, and can also be used to remove portions of the picture in a consistent way.

Since version 0.6 it also supports real-time interactive scaling.

The latest version is 0.7.2, released on Aug 5th, 2013.

It requires GIMP 2.8 or newer.

After installation, you will find it under the Layer menu in GIMP.

This site is a Wiki, and it is always in need of improvement. Every contribution is welcome, all you need if you wish to help developing these pages is site membership.