ImageMagick: resize with borders in batch - imagemagick

I have a few images I want to convert in batch using ImageMagick.
All images should be converted to a specific width, lets say 500px.
If an image's width is larger than 500px, scale it down and preserve the aspect ratio.
If an image's width is less than 500px, add borders to the sides to make it 500px wide.
The first one is possible using magick mogrify -resize 500x *, but this also scales images with a smaller width up. How can I prevent that from happening and add borders instead?
I figured I could just add -background black -gravity center but I don't know how to prevent upscaling.

Solved it using two separate commands for now:
Resize images larger than 500px wide:
magick mogrify -resize '500x>' *
Add borders to images smaller than 500px wide:
magick mogrify -gravity center -extent '735x<' *

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How to remove alpha channeled margins from an image using ImageMagick

I have an image that all four margins are transparent alpha channels and I want to crop all margins and only keep the non-alpha channel parts. Is there any way to do it with ImageMagick? Take this image as an example but consider its transparent margins!
You can do that in Imagemagick using -trim to automatically remove the constant transparent regions.
convert img.png -trim +repage result.png

Imagemagick: how to convert images with different size to image 1920x1080 (white background)

I've a folder with several images with different size (i.e. 1284x456, 1290x445 and so on...).
I need to convert each image to 1920x1080px:
enlarging the sizes proportionally so that I have them 1920px large (i.e. 1920x681, 1920x662 and so on...);
and then adding a white background so that the final height of the output image becomes exactly 1080px (with the old image vertically centered).
Is it possible with a single command?
thanks
I think that I found the trick:
for i in *.jpg; do convert -resize 1920x1080 -gravity center -background white -extent 1920x1080 $i `basename $i `.JPG; done

Imagemagick how to apply gravity and extent to only short images

I have a web page where I list images that should be 600px by 600px (width & height). So I resize all big images to 600x600 using imagemagick, which works fine.
However, some images, when I resize them (in order to keep their aspect ratio), get resized to a size smaller than 600px in height (for example 600x450). So I tried to fill the needed height by using imagemagick options (gravity, background, and extent) like so :
image.combine_options do |img|
img.crop('1200x1200+0+0')
img.resize '600x600'
img.background 'white'
img.extent '600x600'
img.gravity 'center'
end
That gave me what I want for these kind of images (short images). However, this effect of centering is applied to the other images (bigger ones) as well ! Is there any way to prevent that ?
Update:
Just to show you what I mean, I made up this example... if I don't add extent and gravity the image will start from the top left corner
but if I add extent and gravity (center) the image will start from the center, something like this :
I want only images that result on resized images smaller than 600x600 to be centered, but in the example as you see even an image that get resized to exact 600x600 get centered !! that's not what I want
the solution :
I end up using shell command using system function in ruby
system "convert #{image.path} -crop 1024x1024+0+0 -resize 600x600 -background white -gravity center -extent 600x600 output.png"
and that worked fine! I don't know why minimagick wasn't working correctly, but I just get rid of that gem from my gemfile which is fine too.
Here is your command in command line Imagemagick with proper resetting of the virtual canvas after the crop.
convert image -crop 1200x1200+0+0 +repage -resize 600x600 -background white -gravity center -extent 600x600 result
Here are two results with slightly different resize arguments. It looks like your commands are using the equivalent of the ^ flag set on the resize argument.
Input:
Proper result without the ^ flag: (Note padded with white)
convert wiki.png -crop 1200x1200+0+0 +repage -resize 600x600 -background white -gravity center -extent 600x600 result1.png
Result with the ^ flag: (Note cropped)
convert wiki.png -crop 1200x1200+0+0 +repage -resize 600x600^ -background white -gravity center -extent 600x600 result2.png
The above is Unix syntax. For Windows double the ^ to ^^, since ^ is an escape character in Windows.
Perhaps your issue is with minimagick and not Imagemagick. You can check by testing my command line.

Convert image from 4500x5400 to 4050x4200 keeping aspect ratio

I have an image of 4500x5400, I want to resize it for the height 4200 keeping the width ratio, however the width of the image needs to be 4050, leaving the sides transparent.
I have this ImageMagick command:
convert file.png -resize 4500x5400 -gravity center -background transparent -extent 4050x4200 out.png
However it's cutting the top and the bottom, while it needs to appear.
Do you guys have any idea of how I can make it work?
Appreciate your time!
Try this...
convert input.png -resize 4050x4200 -background none -gravity center -extent 4050x4200 output.png
The "-resize" fits your input image within a container of that size. The "-extent" makes sure the total canvas is that size. The "-background" and "-gravity" make sure extra space is filled with transparent and that the input image is located in the center of the output canvas.

Imagemagick: Convert to fixed height, proportional width

Using Imagemagick, I'd like to convert a batch of PNGs to a fixed height of 1080px and a proportional width. With proportional I mean this: If the original Image is scaled down 16.8% to 1080px, the width also needs to be scaled down by 16.8%.
Any way of using convert without having to calculate the exact geometry before (using identify and some bash calculation shenanigans) ?
Try this:
convert -resize x1080 {from_path} {to_path}
Image geometry is an option described to use with -resize
xheight Height given, width automagically selected to preserve aspect ratio.
So you only have to specify the height
There is one additional example. give it some values to the resize parameters and it'll automatically resize your image. Plus you can chose other parameters (gravity center or crop etc.).
convert image_example: \
-resize x160 -resize '160x<' -resize 50% \
-gravity center -crop 80x80+0+0 +repage image_example.jpg
Cheers

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