Adding borders to an image using python

Question

I have a large number of images of a fixed size (say 500*500). I want to write a python script which will resize them to a fixed size (say 800*800) but will keep the origina

Answer 1

PIL's crop method can actually handle this for you by using numbers that are outside the bounding box of the original image, though it's not explicitly stated in the documentation. Negative numbers for left and top will add black pixels to those edges, while numbers greater than the original width and height for right and bottom will add black pixels to those edges.

This code accounts for odd pixel sizes:

from PIL import Image

with Image.open('/path/to/image.gif') as im:
    old_size = im.size
    new_size = (800, 800)

    if new_size > old_size:
        # Set number of pixels to expand to the left, top, right,
        # and bottom, making sure to account for even or odd numbers
        if old_size[0] % 2 == 0:
            add_left = add_right = (new_size[0] - old_size[0]) // 2
        else:
            add_left = (new_size[0] - old_size[0]) // 2
            add_right = ((new_size[0] - old_size[0]) // 2) + 1

        if old_size[1] % 2 == 0:
            add_top = add_bottom = (new_size[1] - old_size[1]) // 2
        else:
            add_top = (new_size[1] - old_size[1]) // 2
            add_bottom = ((new_size[1] - old_size[1]) // 2) + 1

        left = 0 - add_left
        top = 0 - add_top
        right = old_size[0] + add_right
        bottom = old_size[1] + add_bottom

        # By default, the added pixels are black
        im = im.crop((left, top, right, bottom))

Instead of the 4-tuple, you could instead use a 2-tuple to add the same number of pixels on the left/right and top/bottom, or a 1-tuple to add the same number of pixels to all sides.