Transformation to add white space around image

[timuric]

I am looking for a way to add white space around image crop as illustrated in the image bellow. Anyone has ideas how to achieve that with the existing transformations?

[Charlz91108112]

Hello, I found a very good answer to this question here: (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11142851/adding-borders-to-an-image-using-python)

Below is one way to do it

import Image

old_im = Image.open('someimage.jpg')
old_size = old_im.size

new_size = (800, 800)
new_im = Image.new("RGB", new_size)   ## luckily, this is already black!
new_im.paste(old_im, ((new_size[0]-old_size[0])//2,
                      (new_size[1]-old_size[1])//2))

new_im.show()
# new_im.save('someimage.jpg')

by heltonbiker

Below is another using PIL

from PIL import Image, ImageOps
ImageOps.expand(Image.open('original-image.png'),border=300,fill='black').save('imaged-with-border.png')

by Igor Chubin