FIG CROPPER FOR MAC PATCH

If youвЂ™re doing this dozens of times a day (like our photo editor does), it would be much nicer if you could somehow use a scriptвЂ“you open up the URL to a script, give it the path to an image, and it serves back a cropped/resized thumbnail. YouвЂ™ll need to open the source image up in Photoshop/GIMP, take your crop, and save the thumbnail for your website. However, if both dimensions are constrained, you usually have to crop the image before resizing.ДЇor example, say your home page design uses square thumbnails, but your source images come in an odd assortment of width/height combinations. The simplest way to make a thumbnail is to proportionally resize the original image to fit a width or height. When you link to that article (say, on your front page), itвЂ™s nice to have a thumbnail of that articleвЂ™s вЂњfeatureвЂќ image for your readers to click on. YouвЂ™ve probably dealt with the thumbnail problem if you run a blog or website that publishes images with articles. If you just want the script, see the post on OpticropвЂ™s usage and implementation. This post is a big-picture discussion of my method.

FIG CROPPER FOR MAC PATCH

Unlike most cropping routines out there, Opticrop uses edge-detection to find the most вЂњinterestingвЂќ part of the image to crop, so you wonвЂ™t get a useless thumbnail just because the top-left corner of your image happened to be a big patch of featureless sky. Opticrop is a PHP script I wrote to crop a thumbnail of a specific width and height from a full-sized image.

Promising options include entropy-based methods ( reddit, google search) and a commercial service ( ). Since then, similar ideas have cropped up elsewhere and are worth consulting. I wrote this in 2010 and took it offline between 20, but it is now back up.

Fig Cropper For Mac