Python: Image resizing: keep proportion - add white background

Question

I would like to create a Python script to resize images, but not changing its proportions, just by adding a white background

(So, a : 500*700 px im

Answer 1

Thanks @Jay D., here a bit more general version:

from PIL import Image

def resize(image_pil, width, height):
    '''
    Resize PIL image keeping ratio and using white background.
    '''
    ratio_w = width / image_pil.width
    ratio_h = height / image_pil.height
    if ratio_w < ratio_h:
        # It must be fixed by width
        resize_width = width
        resize_height = round(ratio_w * image_pil.height)
    else:
        # Fixed by height
        resize_width = round(ratio_h * image_pil.width)
        resize_height = height
    image_resize = image_pil.resize((resize_width, resize_height), Image.ANTIALIAS)
    background = Image.new('RGBA', (width, height), (255, 255, 255, 255))
    offset = (round((width - resize_width) / 2), round((height - resize_height) / 2))
    background.paste(image_resize, offset)
    return background.convert('RGB')

Answer 2

The other answer didn't work for me, I rewrote it and this worked:

def resize_with_pad(im, target_width, target_height):
    '''
    Resize PIL image keeping ratio and using white background.
    '''
    target_ratio = target_height / target_width
    im_ratio = im.height / im.width
    if target_ratio > im_ratio:
        # It must be fixed by width
        resize_width = target_width
        resize_height = round(resize_width * im_ratio)
    else:
        # Fixed by height
        resize_height = target_height
        resize_width = round(resize_height / im_ratio)

    image_resize = im.resize((resize_width, resize_height), Image.ANTIALIAS)
    background = Image.new('RGBA', (target_width, target_height), (255, 255, 255, 255))
    offset = (round((target_width - resize_width) / 2), round((target_height - resize_height) / 2))
    background.paste(image_resize, offset)
    return background.convert('RGB')

Answer 3

Finally did it :

def Reformat_Image(ImageFilePath):

    from PIL import Image
    image = Image.open(ImageFilePath, 'r')
    image_size = image.size
    width = image_size[0]
    height = image_size[1]

    if(width != height):
        bigside = width if width > height else height

        background = Image.new('RGBA', (bigside, bigside), (255, 255, 255, 255))
        offset = (int(round(((bigside - width) / 2), 0)), int(round(((bigside - height) / 2),0)))

        background.paste(image, offset)
        background.save('out.png')
        print("Image has been resized !")

    else:
        print("Image is already a square, it has not been resized !")

Thanks to @Blotosmetek for the suggestion, pasting a centered image is definitely simpler than creating images and combining them !

PS : If you don't have PIL yet, the library's name to install it with pip is "pillow", not PIL. But still, you use it as PIL in the code.