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I need to crop an image in the middle the original image on my application, to make the crop I need to provide the (x,y) coordinates, and that makes crop to start in the given coordinates.
So I understand in order to calculate x and y i need to apply the same calculation to both.
Please help me understand what I need to calculate the X coordinate to crop the image.

originalWidth = 1200   
newWidth = 600   
startCroopAt = ?

i.e. [x,y]

Image::crop(Yii::getAlias('@app/web/images/tmp/tmp_'.$name), $newWidth, $newHeight, [0,0])
        ->save(Yii::getAlias($path."/".$name), ['quality' => 80]);

Thanks for helping with this explanation.

Pablo Palacios
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startCroopAt = (originalWidth - newWidth) / 2

newPosition = previousPosition + startCroopAt

In a shor explanation, you should calculae the reduction index in order to calculate the new position, that is calculated by substracting the old with with the new width. Since the image cropping must be centered you will divide the index by two in order to simulate sort of a padding. With that the newPosition will be the displacement index starting from where the initial position before cropping was.

When calculating the height it is the same procedure but in the y axis and width the new height.

Hope this helps.

Numeric Example would be.

originalWidth = 1200   
newWidth = 600   
startCroopAt = (1200 - 600)/2 = 300
newPosition = 0 + 300

I guess previousPosition is the origin but in case there is an image displacement using previousPosition solves it.

rafael matovelle
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I have used the [Imagine] image library to more easily accomplish image cropping. I like it because it is file-type agnostic and supports transparent PNGs. This function also resizes the image with the specified width and height.

$cropheight = $bottom - $top;
$cropwidth  = $right - $left;
$target = "./images/cropped/";

$imagine->open($path)
    ->crop(new Point($top, $left), new Box($cropheight,$cropwidth))
    ->resize(new Box($width, $height))
    ->save($target);

I define the most important parameters used while cropping. I am using an image approx 1000x1000 and would like to crop roughly in the center of it.

$uri="http://./smile.jpg";

$top = 90;
$left = 40;
$bottom = 800;
$right = 500;

$width = 920;
$height = 500;
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  • Actually I am using imagine and its corresponding extension from Yii2. Also I found that some of the features I need are still on the development branch, But I am using them. Let me try your code. I have to resize the image first so I can keep the aspect ratio, then I want to crop the image in the middle so I can get rid of the sides. – Pablo Palacios Oct 26 '17 at 02:13