Resize your Photo smarter:

• Content Aware Image Resizing Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing – SIGGRAPH 2007 (Shai Avidan, Ariel Shamir)
  
• Video on the Content Aware Image Resizing. Siggraph 2007 presentation of an all new way to automatically resize images tracing ‘seams’ with the least amount of energy.
• If you look for some inspiration to better retouch your Images euphoria is the good site. Start with the portfolio which shows before and after samples.

Photo sites worth a visit:

• Maciej Duczyński (great landscapes)
  
• lostamerica (pictures at night)
• Hong Kong during the day

Video’s for the weekend:

• Respire, Mon Ami
• Polar Bears – The Egg

Want to discuss a movie with your colleagues or friends but have no time to see it? The DNA of an Movie helps which distilling a whole film down to one single image.

Today’s stats show that our visitors are mainly from the United States (as expected) and Europe. A surprise was that China is on position 10 on the Top 10

Top-Countries (last 30 days)

1. United States
2. Germany
3. Canada
4. United Kingdom
5. Sweden
6. France
7. Japan
8. Netherlands
9. Australia
10. China

Adobe has published the Design Achievement Award winners.

Adobe announces the winner for the categories

• Animation
• Motion Graphics
• Digital Illustration
• Digital Photography
• Environmental Graphics and Packaging
• Interactive and Web Design
• Live Action
• Print Design Multi-page
• Print Design Single page

All Design Achievement Award winners can be found @ Adobe