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I have a bunch of images that are rectangular and I need them to be square, i.e. 1000x1000, so I've decided to use ImageMagick to pad the sides of the image with the amount of whitespace necessary to make the image square.

I've found the code from the following link useful (see next paragraph). But this requires me to process each image individually, to set the filename and then the -thumbnail dimensions. How can I use this same process to process an entire folder?

Here's the code and the link to it:

http://imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#pad

convert -define jpeg:size=200x200 hatching_orig.jpg -thumbnail '100x100>' \
-background white -gravity center -extent 100x100 pad_extent.gif
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  • Did you solve this? If not, please post one or two input images and how the corresponding output image should look and ping me. – Mark Setchell Nov 20 '14 at 00:04

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It is not very clear from your question what you actually have (i.e. how big your images are? what format are they?), nor what you actually want (you only provide an example that doesn't do what you want. But I'll take your question at the face-vale of the title and hope you can work out anything missing from there.

If you want to do ImageMagick in bulk, you either need to use a loop in bash, like this:

#!/bin/bash
for f in *.jpg; do
    convert "%f" ...
done

or use IM's mogrify command. That is quite a powerful command, so make a backup of your images before you even think of trying to use it.

Let's assume you want to place all JPEG images in the current directory onto a white 1000x1000 pixel background. You would do this:

mogrify -background white -gravity center -extent 1000x1000 *.jpg

Updated Answer

It should be possible to do the resizing and the white padding in a single ImageMagick command without needing to use SIPS as well, like this if you now want 1200x1200 square images padded with white:

mogrify -background white -gravity center -resize 1200x1200\> -extent 1200x1200 *.jpg
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  • Thanks for posting this. In case anyone else needs help with this issue, I did use the mogrify command to add whitespace, but prior to doing so, I had to downsize the images (which were all high resolution). To do this, I used this command in terminal which automatically downsizes the images so that the maximum attribute, either height or width or both, is 1200 while maintaining the proper ratio: sips -Z 1200 *.jpg – giwook Nov 24 '14 at 04:42
  • I'm glad it worked for you - now you have added the additional information regarding the initial image sizes, I have updated my answer to do it all in one single step. Please have another look. – Mark Setchell Nov 24 '14 at 09:07