How to avoid image distortion when changing its shape to square?

Answer:

You may use Image Converter Plus to change image shape - for example, add white margins without distorting the image.

Say, you want to create a square image of 500x500 pixels from a smaller image, and you don't want to zoom the image or perform any other scale operations.

To do it, take the following actions:

• Launch Image Converter Plus.
• Go to Photos tab, select and add files you want to change to 500x500 size.
• Go to Profile tab. In the line "Operation before save: Add operation", click on "Add operation" and select Canvas from the menu.
• Click on "+" mark to the left from "Add operation" line to expand the group with settings for added operations.
• In Canvas operation, set Width and Height values to 500 (the value is set in pixels).
• Select the image border color from "Border color" list. If you cannot find the needed color in the list, select "User defined" line and select a color from the dialog box that appears. Then, press OK button.
• In "Save images in .... format" line, select the format for your image.
• Adjust format settings (default values are optimal).
• Specify the path for resulting images.
• Adjust other settings.
• Press "Start" button to start conversion.

By default, the image will be centered inside the resulting box. Use "Anchor" property to change image position.

You may use this operation together with other operations. For example, you may change image size with Resize operation before you add margins to the image.