artdirector

Set a focal point and "artdirector" crop your image to different resolutions without missing the subject. Ideal to create images for mixed or responsive media.

Example

Original Image (by me)

Variants

artdirector --focus-x 260 --focus-y 440 --height 600 --width 600 --zoom 0.0 --edge 3.0 example.jpeg test-1.jpeg
artdirector --focus-x 260 --focus-y 440 --height 600 --width 300 --zoom 0.2 --edge 3.0 example.jpeg test-2.jpeg
artdirector --focus-x 260 --focus-y 440 --height 600 --width 600 --zoom 0.7 --edge 3.0 example.jpeg test-3.jpeg

Installation

pip3 install artdirector

Usage

Use it as a command-line tool:

$ artdirector --help
usage: artdirector [-h] [--width WIDTH] [--height HEIGHT] [--focus-x FOCUS_X] [--focus-y FOCUS_Y] [--zoom ZOOM]
                      INPUT_FILE OUTPUT_FILE

positional arguments:
  INPUT_FILE         Input image
  OUTPUT_FILE        Output image

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --width WIDTH      Crop width
  --height HEIGHT    Crop height
  --focus-x FOCUS_X  Focal point
  --focus-y FOCUS_Y  Focal point
  --zoom ZOOM        Zoom between 0.0 - 1.0 (0.0. Default)
  --edge EDGE        Edge (size/n) around the focal target area

As a Python module

from artdirector import ArtDirector

ad = ArtDirector()
ad.load('input.jpg')
ad.crop([400, 400], focus=[600, 300], zoom=0.3)
ad.save('output.jpg')
ad.filter_blur().filter_bw()
ad.save('output-blur-bw.jpg')

print(ad.image) # PIL Image