Design Challenges

Photo Resizing

Designers will tell you that photo resizing is one of the biggest challenge they find on the Web. More specifically, it is always hard to resize a large image because by the time you make it more of a thumbnail all detail is lost.

In the same manner, when you enlarge an image typically it becomes quite pixelated and details become sharp boxes thereby rendering the photo useless.

A colleague just send me a video of how new technologies are been used to approximate colors and details that are now in use to address both the resizing up and shrinking down issues.

The bottom line is that with time technology makes all processes better. I was recently discussing with another colleague how old printing terms still apply today. The technology is much advance but the remnants are still there. I'm just glad that humans are always seeking to evolve, whether is monetarily driven or not is not the concern, but if money keeps the advances coming then let the creative ones become rich and the richer ones become richer. You can watch the video here.

Labels: digital photography, photo resizing, Web Design