Resizer

Resizer is a small command-line utility written in Go.

Use it to pad images (ie add bleed) to a standard (4:3, 3:2, 5:4) ratio so that it could be printed by popular online print services safely and cost-effectively.

TL;DR

Indeed, online photo print services (apple, negatifplus) follow a rather stupid logic that leads to image loss when supplied with non-standard ratio images: they just crop the picture to fit the chosen standard ratio.

Resizer nicely selects the closest standard ratio if none is given as an argument.

square (1:1)
	
	+--------+
	|•••--•••|
	|••----••|
	|••----••|
	|••----••|
	+--------+

==> 4:3

	+-----------+
	|•••--•••   |
	|••----••   |
	|••----••   |
	|••----••   |
	+-----------+

or

panoramic (5:2)
	
	+---------------+
	|....::::::.....|
	|.:::::::::::::.|
	+---------------+

==> 3:2

	+---------------+
	|....::::::.....|
	|.:::::::::::::.|
	|               |
	|               |
	+---------------+

TODOs & FIXMEs

• DONE : use goroutines to parallelize image resizing.
• DONE : don't do anything if the image has a perfect ratio.
• DONE : don't use sync package since @nono doesn't like it.
• TODO : add relevant suffix to the bleeded image.
• TODO : have the complementary rectangle somehow like a black&white checkerboard instead of plain white/black to ease cropping
• TODO : provide max print size at 300dpi (in output filename suffix ?)
• TODO : rename to "bleeder" instead of "resizer". May need to change github project name too.

How to use it?

Install Go 1 and run this command:

go run resizer.go -dir=resized -color=white -ratio=40:60 image1 image2 ...

Credits

♡2012 by Jérôme Andrieux and Bruno Michel. Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share.

Released under the MIT license