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FotoFlexer: Incredibly clever image resizing

by Rich Trenholm

Sharam Shirazi has joined Arbor Labs (the parent of FotoFlexer) as CEO. He’s got great Silicon Valley experience, and we’re very happy about his joining the team.

Sharam has previously served as CEO of Empact Software Solutions, CEO of University Planet, CEO of hyperstone electronics USA, and CEO & Chairman of Teknekron Systems.

At Teknekron, he led a 100+ person organization with a very similar mission to Arbor Labs: Sharam recruited top-notch academic engineering talent from within universities, and rapidly developed world-class products. Earlier in his career he served as Director of Alliances at Zilog and he was also a Consultant at Bain & Co. Mr. Shirazi began his career with Fairchild Corporation as an electrical engineer.

Sharam earned a BS in Electrical Engineering, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also earned an MBA from Stanford University.

He’s also an excellent model helicopter pilot.

Welcome to the team Sharam!

“FotoFlexer Continues to Innovate; People Love It”

by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch, October 9 2007

The new FotoFlexer Smart Resize feature can be applied in many ways. It relies upon sophisticated computational algorithms to resize an image, while maintaining original photo scale and composition. This represents a vast improvement over traditional resize tools which typically distort an image into an unusable form. Here’s an example of how Smart Resize works.

Original photo of two girls who just enjoyed eating a nice picnic lunch at the beach:

FotoFlexer Smart Resize is used to choose a photo element to preserve (in green) and another to eliminate (in red):

And the magic of FotoFlexer Smart Resize creates the new, desired image while maintaining the scale and composition of the entire photo:

There are many fun ways to apply this feature, imagine the possibilities. You can view a demo video discussing FotoFlexer Smart Resize here: http://fotoflexer.com/demos.php

Happy FotoFlexing!