Question

So I have a table with image sizes. There are multiple images of different sizes (66×66, 400×400, etc.). I have one example of image (the original) that always has a size of 600×532, and on this image is a product (a TV, a PC, etc.).

I have to resize this image, which isn’t a problem. But if I do this with proportion I get something like 66×55. If I don’t do this with proportion the image doesn’t look good.

So the background of the original is always white. Is there a way to extend the area of the image and filling the rest with white?
So like this: 600×532 -> 600×600 -> 66×66 etc etc.

It should be like a anti-crop.

EDIT: I found out that if I use crop() from PIL and instead of “minimizing” using a value above the actual image-size it creates my extra area. but it is going to be black.
Any idea how I could fill this area white?

EDIT2: I guess it has something to do with ImageDraw.

EDIT3: After finding out that ImageDraw was the solution, my problem was solved. Please close this.

Here my solution:

import Image, ImageDraw
img1 = Image.open("img.jpg")
img2 = img1.crop((0,0,600,600))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img2)
draw.rectangle( (0,532,600,600), fill='white' )
del draw
img2.save("img2.jpg","JPEG", quality=75)

The next thing I will do is to make the extra crop above and under. So the picture stays in the middle.

EDIT4: final solution

img1 = Image.open("img1.jpg")
img2 = img1.crop( (0,-34,600,566) )  
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img2)
draw.rectangle( (0,0,600,34), fill="white" )
draw.rectangle( (0,566,600,600), fill="white" )
del draw
img2.save("img2.jpg", "JPEG", quality=75)

Answer 1

Supposing we use PIL to process the image

from PIL import Image

def white_bg_square(img):
    "return a white-background-color image having the img in exact center"
    size = (max(img.size),)*2
    layer = Image.new('RGB', size, (255,255,255))
    layer.paste(img, tuple(map(lambda x:(x[0]-x[1])/2, zip(size, img.size))))
    return layer

You could resize a PIL Image object, img for example

img.resize((width, height), resample=Image.ANTIALIAS)

Thus in the python shell, it looks like

>>> from PIL import Image
>>> img = Image.open('path/to/image')
>>> square_one = white_bg_square(img)
>>> square_one.resize((100, 100), Image.ANTIALIAS)
>>> square_one.save('path/to/result')

There are nice examples inside PIL document and sorl-thumbnail 3.2.5

• http://effbot.org/imagingbook/image.htm
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sorl-thumbnail/3.2.5