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February 01, 2008
Mind-Bending New Image Scaling Technology
With all the myriad ways that images are captured and inserted into various digital media (blogs being paramount) people who are sensitive to digital publishing, while also trying to maintain a strong sense of aesthetics, are often confronted with obnoxious but necessary decisions in cropping and resizing images to keep things organized and formatted correctly while maintaining image integrity.
Since the introduction of the artwork displaying and browsing function in iTunes, there have been countless pieces of album artwork not originally designed in a perfectly square format, but which I essentially redesigned myself, so as to fill the entire frame in the iTunes window to give myself a more pleasurable user experience. Yes, I am turned on by organization, I am a neat-freak, anal-retentive, or whatever you want call it (in Japan they just call you blood-type A). I just call it a designer I guess.
On other days, I make stupid decisions about how to crop images to fit into any number of places that have different tolerances for size and ratio. If you upload to mixi it might be one size, if its Facebook another, if its this blog another, W+K blog, yet another, etc.
If you watch this, and like me, it makes you go a bit insane, then maybe you are thinking beyond its usefulness–which is amazing, they need to integrate it into Photoshop like NOW–and instead about the strange philosophical implications of it, and the potential for artistic exploration in its errors.
Posted by shane at February 1, 2008 01:41 PM