Posted on Jul 2, 2024

i made a quick blog cover generator

#python #programming #blog #beginners

so i love the minimalism and bright colors, combine those and you get simple covers like these, i made this is canva at first..

this is kinda perfect for me right now, yet I as any other developer thought "is automating this an option??"🤓
so my plan here was simple, to make these simple little covers without manual labor, in the first rendition of this i even wanted to add some stickers related to any tags i provided and then display them in bottom right corner, but decided against it cause i got bored trying to handle the subproblems that came with automating sticker download from the internet, yet more on this later.

before we start look at this cool monkey i found:

so i put out for dimensions of 1600x800 in my mind, which is generally used by most blog sites.
initially i set out to make it a cli only thing, yet decided against it, so if in future i want some new changes without making this again.
ohhh yes one cool "app" thing this has is, it will automatically translate your sub-title to japanese giving you that aesthetic yet clean look in the cover.

how it works:

it uses tkinter as it's GUI library duhh
the "fun" part is the image generation and the automatic translation yk, for this it uses PIL or Python Imaging Library more specifically Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont modules.
for translation part of that subtitle it was a bit tricky, yet it found a package named googletrans which works flawlessly.
it uses two fonts, one called opensans-light for title, and other called notosansjp for japanese subtitle.
now as i told before, i wanted it to work with emoji's yet it didn't cause i had tons of these things called an:
ill later try getting this text generation and emojis working cause i made this project long time ago and kinda yk forgot..🤦‍♂️
yet so, this was a great side-side project, made me focus on python after a long time again.

code:

#actually works version import tkinter as tk from tkinter import messagebox from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont from googletrans import Translator def translate_to_japanese(text): translator = Translator() result = translator.translate(text, src='en', dest='ja') return result.text def create_blog_cover(title, subtitle): # Image settings width, height = 1600, 840 background_color = "#fffb29" font_path = "./fonts/OpenSans-Light.ttf" # Replace with the path to your font font_jp = "./fonts/NotoSansJP-VariableFont_wght.ttf" # Replace with the path to your Japanese font font_size_title = 140 # Increased font size for title font_size_subtitle = 80 # Increased font size for subtitle vertical_margin = 40 # Create image with background color img = Image.new("RGBA", (width, height), background_color) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) # Load fonts title_font = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, font_size_title) subtitle_font = ImageFont.truetype(font_jp, font_size_subtitle) # Get English and Japanese subtitles translated_subtitle = translate_to_japanese(subtitle) # Get text bounding boxes title_bbox = draw.textbbox((0, 0), title, font=title_font) subtitle_bbox = draw.textbbox((0, 0), translated_subtitle, font=subtitle_font) # Extract width and height from bounding boxes title_width = title_bbox[2] - title_bbox[0] title_height = title_bbox[3] - title_bbox[1] subtitle_width = subtitle_bbox[2] - subtitle_bbox[0] subtitle_height = subtitle_bbox[3] - subtitle_bbox[1] # Calculate text positions title_x = (width - title_width) / 2 title_y = (height - title_height - subtitle_height - 20 - vertical_margin) / 2 # Center vertically subtitle_x = (width - subtitle_width) / 2 subtitle_y = title_y + title_height + 20 + vertical_margin # Draw text on image draw.text((title_x, title_y), title, font=title_font, fill="black") draw.text((subtitle_x, subtitle_y), translated_subtitle, font=subtitle_font, fill="black") # Save image output_path = f"./output/{title.replace(' ', '_')}_cover.png" img.save(output_path, "PNG") print(f"Cover image saved as {output_path}") def generate_cover(): title = title_entry.get() subtitle = subtitle_entry.get() create_blog_cover(title, subtitle) messagebox.showinfo("Cover Generated", "Cover image generated successfully!") # Create a Tkinter window root = tk.Tk() root.title("Blog Cover Generator") # Title label and entry title_label = tk.Label(root, text="Enter the title:") title_label.pack() title_entry = tk.Entry(root, width=50) title_entry.pack() # Subtitle label and entry subtitle_label = tk.Label(root, text="Enter the subtitle:") subtitle_label.pack() subtitle_entry = tk.Entry(root, width=50) subtitle_entry.pack() # Generate button generate_button = tk.Button(root, text="Generate Cover", command=generate_cover) generate_button.pack() # Run the Tkinter main loop root.mainloop()