ImageManipulatorForIg – Instagram Images Manipulator

How ImageManipulatorForIg Works

ImageManipulatorForIg is a tool that helps you prepare your images for Instagram. It currently only supports L2P mode, which lets you turn landscape images into vertical ones that are the perfect size for Instagram posts.

Usage:

To use ImageManipulatorForIg, you need to open a command prompt window. You can do this by pressing Windows + R and typing cmd.

Once you have opened the command prompt window, you need to change to the directory where the executable file ImageManipulatorForIg.exe is located. You can do this by typing the following command:

cd path/to/folder

For example, if the image file is located in the Images folder, you can type the following command:

cd Images

Once you have changed to the current directory, you can use the following command to convert the image to portrait format:

ImageManipulatorForIg [-h] -t {L2P} [-v] filename

Parameters:

• -h, --help: Shows help and quits.
• -t, --transformation: Specifies the type of transformation to apply. Currently, the only option is L2P.
• -v, --verbose: Turns on detailed logging of the operations performed.
• filename: The path to the image file to be manipulated.

Example of generic usage

ImageManipulatorForIg -t L2P -v my_landscape_image.jpg

Below are concrete examples for each feature. First, here is how ImageManipulatorForIg can be used for batch operations. Batch processing is a tool that lets you run a series of commands in a row. In this case, batch processing is used to manipulate images with ImageManipulatorForIg.

Once you’ve created a file named folder_automation.bat, copy and paste this code into it:

@echo off

REM Enable delayed expansion, which allows variables to be expanded within a loop
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

REM Set the folder path to the first argument
set "folder=%1"

REM Loop through each file in the specified folder
for %%a in ("%folder%\*") do (
   echo.
   echo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
   echo Execute Landscape to Portrait on file %%a with verbose
   echo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   echo.
   REM Execute ImageManipulatorForIg program with the L2P flag and verbose option
   REM using the current file as the input
   .\ImageManipulatorForIg.exe -t L2P --verbose "%%a"
   echo.
   echo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   echo.
)

REM Pause the execution of the batch file until the user presses a key
PAUSE

To use this file, simply open a command prompt (cmd) and run the following command, passing it the path to the folder where the images you want to manipulate are located:

folder_automation.bat "path/folder/with/images/to/be/manipulated"

and the script will take care of the rest:

• The batch operation starts by looping through the folder where the images are located.
• For each image, the batch operation runs the command: ImageManipulatorForIg.exe -t L2P --verbose "%%a", which converts the image to a vertical format and provides detailed logging of the conversion process.
• The batch processing is complete when ImageManipulatorForIg has finished converting all of the images.

The next page provides detailed descriptions of the different features.