Photo Editing – how to position small images on white background

If you’re trying to get WordPress/wooCommerce to automatically put smaller images on a 600 x 600 white background, I don’t have a solution for you, but if you are willing to process the images on your PC before uploading them, you’ve got a couple of options.

First, Photoshop has a batch editing capability you could use. If you search for “photoshop batch edit” you’ll find a bunch of tutorials on how to set up a new action to affect all the images files in a folder.

I use Imagemagick from the command line to do batch photo processing. There’s a version of it for all the major operating systems. The command(s) you’ll use will vary a bit depending on the OS, but there are plenty of examples out there. Basically, you’ll be using the “convert” command if you want to create a new image file, and the “mogrify” command if you want to use the same file. For example, if you want to put all the JPEG images in the current folder on a 600 x 600 white background, you’d run the following command from the command line:

mogrify -gravity center -background white -extent 600x600 *.jpg