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I am looking to add a background to images that users upload that are not square. So if they upload a tall and skinny photo I want to add a white background to the sides of the image to make the resulting image have an aspect ratio of 1:1. Is this possible using PHP or javascript?
The GD library is the most commonly used image manipulation package. It’s a set of functions often installed with PHP which handle image manipulation.
What you’ll want to do is either scale and crop your image to a specific aspect ratio so that you place your image on a square canvas and cut off whatever does fit or
You’ll want to simply resize your image to a fixed aspect ratio and place it on a square canvas with whitespace around it.
Either way, this tutorial should point you in the right direction
http://return-true.com/2009/02/making-cropping-thumbnails-square-using-php-gd/