A simple tool for converting vertical 9:16 images to horizontal 16:9 with an "echo pillarbox" aka "pillarbox blur" on the sides. It has a few options for padding out the sides with colors to prep images for Twitter and other use cases.
I think I found this on Hacker News … I tried it, and it's simple and cool. I use it more for using the blur to extend background patterns or gradients or colorfields from 4:3 to 16:9. Handy.
Free, no-cookies, no tracking.
Einar (the maker) says: Have you ever been tweeting out an image that's very short and wide, maybe it's just a couple of lines of text, and it gets cropped horribly so people have to click on the image to even see the full text? Well, here you can pad that image out to the aspect ratio 16x9, which is what Twitter shows it as, so people can read your image text immediately.
✔︎ He wrote a blog post about the tool:
https://einaregilsson.com/make-y...
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