Hi,
Have been using IrfanView to batch process my photographs for quite a while. While I avoid taking portrait mode snaps with my camera, on a recent trip I used my mobile phone extensively and landed up having many shots that are having 9:16 and 3:4 aspect-ratio portrait shots, which I'd like to convert to 16:9 aspect-ratio landscape shots, with an effect that, I think was popularized by iPhone photo app which adds an enlarged and highly blurred copy of the image but cropped to the frame size while overlaying the portrait shot on it. It looks quite pleasing to the eyes.
The mechanism is explained at several places, but wondering if there is a plugin or existing script that I could use to achieve the same in batch mode using IrfanView:
Edited:
In fact I found a pretty old discussion pointing to such capability on the IrfanView forum where it seems to conclude that it needs to be an enhancement. I'm just hoping that the enhancement is now available.
Edited(again):
Came across a method that seems to work when we have a set of images using which we create a Slideshow, but have yet to figure out if there is a way to export that effect onto the images themselves, s.t. the set of images can be displayed on a device (s.a. an LED TV) that displays images one by one, using it's own Slideshow mechanism (which leaves a lot to be desired). If we go to Slideshow > Full screen options and check the option that says:
Show blurred (vertical) image sides ...
as shown in this screen-shot:
thanks in anticipation,
BD
Have been using IrfanView to batch process my photographs for quite a while. While I avoid taking portrait mode snaps with my camera, on a recent trip I used my mobile phone extensively and landed up having many shots that are having 9:16 and 3:4 aspect-ratio portrait shots, which I'd like to convert to 16:9 aspect-ratio landscape shots, with an effect that, I think was popularized by iPhone photo app which adds an enlarged and highly blurred copy of the image but cropped to the frame size while overlaying the portrait shot on it. It looks quite pleasing to the eyes.
The mechanism is explained at several places, but wondering if there is a plugin or existing script that I could use to achieve the same in batch mode using IrfanView:
- Graphicdesign stackexchange Q&A
- Cloudinary support page explaining the procedure
- Youtube video of how to do it manually, step-by-step using Irfanview
Edited:
In fact I found a pretty old discussion pointing to such capability on the IrfanView forum where it seems to conclude that it needs to be an enhancement. I'm just hoping that the enhancement is now available.
Edited(again):
Came across a method that seems to work when we have a set of images using which we create a Slideshow, but have yet to figure out if there is a way to export that effect onto the images themselves, s.t. the set of images can be displayed on a device (s.a. an LED TV) that displays images one by one, using it's own Slideshow mechanism (which leaves a lot to be desired). If we go to Slideshow > Full screen options and check the option that says:
Show blurred (vertical) image sides ...
as shown in this screen-shot:
thanks in anticipation,
BD
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