A colleague forwarded me a demo of “seam carving” about a month ago. In a nutshell, a seam carving application preserves the important pieces of an image and dispenses with the sea of like pixels, making for a more compact photo. The reverse is also true in that it can add seams to expand the photo. It all seems pretty ho-hum until you try a demo. Check out rsizr.com … you can thank me later.