Squeeze Squash!
October 15, 2007 – 9:32 pm
Squeeze has been renamed Squash due to a naming conflict.
Announcing Squash! Squash is a simple application with a simple purpose - a batch image resizer. A batch image resizer is normally pretty boring, but squeeze has a special purpose. It is crafted and baked specifically for travellers. Fear no more! Don’t clog peoples inboxes with travel snaps, and don’t waste money waiting for long uploads on slow internet connections with worse plumbing than an Asian squat toilet. This application is essentially the result of the scratching of a very large itch - finding a decent, fast image resizer which doesn’t need to be installed and can be run from a usb flash drive. Heck, you could store it on your memory card in your camera.
Ultimately Squash will be a fully cross platform application, with binaries from windows and mac. The only dependency is Qt 4.3. If anybody is interested in creating statically linked binaries for Windows or Mac, I’d be very grateful - please get a hold of me!
Source tarball: squash-0.3.tar.bz2
16 Responses to “
SqueezeSquash!”Hi,
nice idea…. would be interesting if you could implement the seam-carving resizing algorithm
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Links:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/seam-carver/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving
By sim0n on Oct 15, 2007
any chance of it using jpegoptim to make it even smaller?
By lord rel on Oct 15, 2007
I volunteer to do the Mac binaries; I already do them for QTM and Speedcrunch, so I know what to do. (I tend to include the Frameworks in their own directory, rather than use a static binary.)
By Matt Smith on Oct 15, 2007
Thanks Matt - what ever works best for you!
By Seb on Oct 15, 2007
I can do windows binaries (static) if you’d like.
By Tim on Oct 15, 2007
@Tim: Yes please!!!
By Seb on Oct 15, 2007
One problem I see with the seam-carving algorithm is that it doesn’t actually resize areas of importance (i.e., high energy content) in the image. As a result, scales get a bit wacky in the resized image. For example, shrink the image by half, but the people and buildings remain the same size. The result is that everything moves closer together.
By anonymous on Oct 15, 2007
anon: heh, you just described the whole point of using seam carving =)
By logixoul on Oct 16, 2007
This program looks very handy, Seb. A jpeg compression/quality slider would be great, but not totally necessary. Regarding seam carving, that seems a bit out of scope for this simple utility. Based on what I’ve read on BKO, it _might_ be coming soon to Digikam, though.
By Louis on Oct 16, 2007
Also, how awesome is it that Seb asks for volunteers to make the Mac and Win binaries, and he gets them within 5 posts?!
By Louis on Oct 16, 2007
Wonderfull!
This is just the thing my family could use for our family website!
Thanks a bunch!
timahawk
p.s. Just another sentance with an exclamation point at the end!
By timahawk on Oct 16, 2007
Great program! Thanks!
Any kubuntu package coming along?
By XBO on Oct 16, 2007
add the ability to rotate individual images (like this maybe: http://agateau.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/rotation-20/ ), and this could save my mum a lot of time.
By Chani on Oct 16, 2007
not much to do with your app but there is an open source app called Squeeze ( an archiver that xfce uses by default i think ) .
By patent building spokesman on Oct 16, 2007
Why not a build for Linux? it should be very easy
By manosv on Oct 24, 2007