Instagramize

This is a Python 3 commandline tool which essentially automates what I was doing by hand before in GIMP.

It takes three arguments:

1. (Required) the image file name to 'instagramize'
2. (Optional) the pixel radius of the gaussian blur applied to the background. The default is 10.
3. (Optional) the border radius around the image. The default is no border.

Ex:

python3 instagramize.py mycoolphoto.jpg

or to define gaussian blur:

python3 instagramize.py mycoolphoto.jpg 15

or to define gaussian blur and border radius:

python3 instagramize.py mycoolphoto.jpg 15 10

This will create an instagramized photo under the same directory with the name instagramized_mycoolphoto.jpg.

Visual examples (taken by yours truly :wink:):

• Horizontal photo:

• Vertical photo:

General Process

1. Scale image to 2048px. What this means:
   • If the photo is landscape, the horizontal side should go to 2048 as background, and overlayed with the photo with height set to 2048px
   • The opposite is true for portrait photos
2. Via some math, the image is pasted in a centered fashion over the background image, which is just the same image, but covering the 2048 x 2048 square, and blurred for nice effect
3. The image is cropped to the correct 2048 x 2048 square and exported

That's it. Enjoy!