How to "best fit" (crop/resize)

[squadjot]

Hi all!

i'd like to crop images to fit a certain size (filling the format with the image)

To illustrate what i want i created the desired effect in HTML/CSS http://edweb.dk/Temp/crop.html

As you can see the image is centered and filling the container, the rest is cropped away.

How to achieve this with IM?

I'm using ImageMagick-6.8.9-0 cmd on windows

I tried fiddling with a script.. but it doesent work.. this simply just resizes the image

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convert myfile.jpg -resize 280x400 -extent 280x400 -quality 90 converted.jpg

Hope someone can help me, thanks

[Marsu42]

Hope someone can help me, thanks

You need to somehow calculate the exact part that you want to crop, I'm doing this outside im with a shell script after reading the image props. Then set the gravity % crop this area, then resize. Lookie here under "{size}{+-}x{+-}y": http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... p#geometry

[fmw42]

If your new size does not have the same aspect ratio as the original, then you will have to either 1) pad, 2) crop or 3) distort

Unix syntax:

PAD:

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convert A_original.jpg -resize 280x400 -gravity center -background black -extent 280x400 -quality 90 converted.jpg

CROP:

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convert A_original.jpg -resize 280x400^ -gravity center -extent 280x400 -quality 90 converted.jpg

DISTORT:

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convert A_original.jpg -resize 280x400! -gravity center -extent 280x400 -quality 90 converted.jpg

In Windows syntax, escape the ^ as ^^

[squadjot]

CROP:

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convert A_original.jpg -resize 280x400^ -gravity center -extent 280x400 -quality 90 converted.jpg

I'll try this, thanks!

[fmw42]

On windows, you will need to escape the ^ as ^^

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convert A_original.jpg -resize 280x400^^ -gravity center -extent 280x400 -quality 90 converted.jpg

[squadjot]

I can not get it to work :/

My bat file contains following:

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convert %1 -resize 280x400^^ -gravity center -extent 280x400 -quality 90 converted.jpg

And this is what i get:

[snibgo]

If you also uploaded your input file, we could test with it and find the problem. But you didn't.

[fmw42]

Using the first image in your upload as the input (A_original.jpg), it works fine for me on IM 6.9.6.0 and 6.8.9.0 Q16 Mac OSX and resizes and crops the image to fill the window. Windows syntax needs the ^ escaped to ^^ as you seem to have done. But your result seems to be as if it was not using the ^^.

Try

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convert %1 -resize "280x400^^" -gravity center -extent 280x400 -quality 90 converted.jpg

Try running it in a command window with the exact same file I used directly in the command without a variable for the input file. Were you running it in a bat script?

Are you using the same input image that I am. If not please provide that.

[squadjot]

Using quotes worked

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convert %1 -resize "280x400^" -gravity center -extent 280x400 -quality 90 converted.jpg

Both a single ^ and double ^^ worked

Thanks alot!, i would never have figured that out myself