This is very cool: Context Aware Image Re-Sizing allows resizing of images by selective ‘distortion’ as an alternative to design-time choice of crop or scale.
It’s disconcerting to watch parts of an image disappear as it shrinks and purists may object but it does make sense in this ‘good-enough’ web 2.0 age (rather like lossy compression of audio has an application).
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