Intelligent Image Cropping

Question

I'm a bit stuck on trying to explain to a customer of my theme that cropping of an image by intelligently figuring out the sweet and right spot is not an easy task at all. I'm even doubtful if that is 100% possible at all.

Say, in a Portrait, if an image is to be cropped as a square or a proportion, will it be possible to focus on the face and do the cropping accordingly.

Here is the question in question, if you wish to know more details http://getsatisfaction.com/autochrome/topics/portrait_image_thumbnail

Answer 1

You can try ImageKit.io. It provides smart cropping out of the box. It uses face and feature detection internally to make the necessary computations for smart crop. ImageKit also has a face-crop mode that picks out the face from the original image to create a thumbnail.