Auto-cropping
ImageMagick can automatically crop surrounding transparent pixels from an image:
convert input.png -trim +repage output.png
You need to +repage to update the image's canvas, or applications will be randomly confused.
Trimming specific colors is also possible, see the
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Resizing into a box
Occasionally, you want to resize an image to a maximum width or height, and change the "outer" image dimensions to something that won't match the input image.
To resize a none-square image "into" a square box, where the image is centered, say something like this:
convert input.png -resize '128x128>' -gravity center -background transparent -extent 128x128 output.png
This will not skew the image itself, and fill up with transparent pixels.
If input.png is smaller than 128x128, it will not be enlarged because of the > flag. The resulting image will be 128x128, and any smaller image will be centered.
Auto-cropping and resizing
Combine the above like so:
convert input.png -trim +repage -resize '128x128>' -gravity center -background transparent -extent 128x128 output.png
