convert input.png -extent 100x100 -gravity center -background white output.png
If the input is 50x50 the surrounding background is white. Can I somehow set this to transparent without declaring any color within input as transparent?
Use this instead:
convert \
input.png \
-background none \
-gravity center \
-extent 100x100 \
output.png
Note well: The order of the parameters is significant! (To convince yourself, just put -background none
at the end of the parameters instead of the start...)
Updated: Thanks to @jesmith who noticed that the commandline I originally provided does no longer work as intended. More recent versions of convert
additionally require that the -gravity center
is called before -extent 100x100
. (This was one of the changes introduced to one ImageMagick's most recent versions [at the time of originally writing this answer]).