Break image into thirds keeping center third

[abduct]

I have images where the main detail is in the center of the image such as: https://i.imgur.com/6PzX9mX.jpg

And I want to crop off the left and right side by 1/3 each leaving only the center third of the image resulting in a image that is tall and narrow: https://i.imgur.com/oDhnRpr.png

Likewise after the cropping is done I want to resize it to 1312x2560 maintaining aspect ratio without damaging the quality of the image. The images vary in width and height most of which being 1920x1080. I will be going through the images for blurriness/artifacts by hand to choose the best ones to use.

The resizing can be done before or after the cropping.

This should be done in a way for bulk images to be modified. I believe mogrify is the correct tool for this. Images can be overwriten in the current directory or saved to a new directory. I am on Windows using ImageMagick-7.0.3-7-portable-Q16-x64 although I can upgrade the install if needed.

The purpose of this is to create cell phone backgrounds from images that are too wide for the screen.

[GeeMack]

And I want to crop off the left and right side by 1/3 each leaving only the center third of the image resulting in a image that is tall and narrow: https://i.imgur.com/oDhnRpr.png

Likewise after the cropping is done I want to resize it to 1312x2560 maintaining aspect ratio without damaging the quality of the image. The images vary in width and height most of which being 1920x1080. I will be going through the images for blurriness/artifacts by hand to choose the best ones to use.

The resizing can be done before or after the cropping.

A command like this will remove the left and right thirds, leaving the vertical center 33.333%, and will process all the PNG images in the current directory.

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magick mogrify -gravity center -extent 33.333%x100% *.png

That will overwrite all the original PNGs, so use caution.

Add "-resize 1312x2560" after the "-extent" operation to resize the images to a maximum of 1312 pixels wide or 2560 pixels high, while still maintaining the aspect.

[abduct]

Perfect this is exactly what I was looking for!

I couldn't figure out why chop, crop, and shave were giving me weird results. I never heard of extent before. At least I learned something new.