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I have a number of rectangular images (with different orientation) that I'd like to convert into square ones. I don't have specific dimensions for the square images, but they should be the length of the longest side of the original image, e.g:

188x166 -> 188x188
1200x1600 -> 1600x1600

I'd imagine I need to adjust the canvas to this new size (using white background), and ensure the original image is centered in the new canvas. Is this possible on ImageMagick?

I've come across the following code, but obviously need to find a way to replace the '640x640' with whatever the longest dimension of the image in question is:
Thank you

What is your version of ImageMagick and platform? IM 6 and IM 7 have different syntax. But you will likely need to use convert/magick depending upon version rather than mogrify. You may need to write a script to loop over each image in your directory and that is OS dependent. For IM 7 you might be able to do multiple images in a single magick command, if you have enough memory and do not mind output name changes.


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See the top-most post in this forum "IMPORTANT: Please Read This FIRST Before Posting" at http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-se ... f=1&t=9620

If using Imagemagick 7, then see http://imagemagick.org/script/porting.php#cli


For novices, see

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-se ... f=1&t=9620
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... essing.php
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/reference.html
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
https://github.com/ImageMagick/usage-markdown
https://imagemagick.org/script/porting.php#cli

With v7, you can do individual files like this... ... then put that in a shell loop.

FUrn wrote: ↑2018-10-30T09:53:59-07:00I'd imagine I need to adjust the canvas to this new size (using white background), and ensure the original image is centered in the new canvas. Is this possible on ImageMagick?

This command will take any input image and pad it with white as necessary to create a square output image. If the input is wider than high, it will pad the top and bottom while centering the input in the square. If it's higher than wide, it will pad the left and right so the input is centered in the square output. If the input is already square it will leave the dimensions unchanged.
That uses IM6 and is in Windows syntax. For IM7 use "magick" instead of "convert". To put it in a Windows BAT script, double the percent signs "%%". To run it as a *nix shell command, replace those end-of-line carets "^" with backslashes "\".

Note that if you're using IM version 7, the example command snibgo provided above is a much more straightforward approach.

Either way, to perform this sort of operation on multiple files it's probably best to use a "for" loop as snibgo suggested. The syntax depends on the platform you're running on.

snibgo wrote: ↑2018-10-30T12:10:39-07:00 With v7, you can do individual files like this...

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magick in.png -gravity Center -background Blue -extent %[fx:max(w,h)]x%[fx:max(w,h)] out.png

... then put that in a shell loop.

Thanks snibgo - this is helpful. There was a little syntax error when I ran the code, but adding quotation marks helped:
I'm very much a beginner with IM and non-GUI editors though, so I hope it isn't too much to ask how to put that in a shell loop?

How can we, if you don't tell us what shell you are using?

For Windows, use the "for" command.

For bash, use the "for" command (but bash "for" is different to Windows "for").

Got it:
Thanks for all your help in getting me here...it works perfectly now!