Both nighttime pictures were taken at Disney's X-mas party, & the 1st shows a spotlit candy cane made out of balloons. Trying out iResize, a couple images on my hard drive worked really well. The 2nd scenario has a background scene or setting that is important. making a 4:3 picture better fit a 16:9 HDTV. Here you might use iResize if you don't have access to the original, & what you do have can't fill the width of whatever screen, e.g. And normally you'd want to crop the image as much as practical, showing only enough background to set the scene. If you've got a portrait or take a snapshot of people posing for the camera, they're the focus & things probably should stay that way - very often too much of anything else in the picture is a distraction. Sometimes the same thing happens with still images. To show the same movie on regular TV they often just cut the sides off, & while certainly you still see the actors & whatever's going on, many feel that something irreplaceable has been lost in the process. Movies are shot wide-screen, because it's felt that the extra background helps convey the entire scene, maybe does a better job of pulling you into the picture. Google/Bing & you'll come up with other, perhaps better examples, but hopefully that gives a sense of how iResize might help out, &/or where it won't. Here the building was protected & so in effect zoomed in or enlarged without losing the tree branches that made such a classic frame. A nice shot, except the building was just a tad too small - there was too much dark space, with nothing happening between the tree branches & the building itself. The 2nd image was a bit trickier, showing a well-lit building in the distance, with the shot framed by leaves & branches from trees close by. Highlighting the candy cane to protect it, reducing height in iResize the pic went through a metamorphosis - the image went from being: "look what someone clever did with balloons", to "this was what it was like to be there that night". Regular cropping &/or resizing added nothing at all, & while it was maybe a nice enough snapshot, unless you remembered the night it was taken it was a bit of a yawn. ![]() ![]() ![]() #12: "Can someone tell me if there’s any advantage to using this tool instead of cropping an image around the content you want to keep?"
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