#ugly php code

My dayjob studio Firebelly loves duotone images in their site designs. When we're using Rails, it's pretty easy to use Paperclip or Dragonfly to send along commands to ImageMagick on the fly, e.g.

# Paperclip has_attached_file :image_file, styles: { wallpaper: "1600x1000>" }, convert_options: { wallpaper: "-quality 60 -strip -fill Black -colorize 27% -background Black \\( +clone -fill White -colorize 100 -background \"Gray(70%)\" -vignette 0x65+25%+5% \\) -compose multiply -composite" } # Dragonfly

We're using this technique on a Bedrock/Sage Wordpress site, and I wanted to avoid applying this to every uploaded image via a WP hook. I ended up with this beast of a function (fugly PHP alert) that creates a duotone image using two hex values:

/** * Get header bg for post, duotone treated with the random IHC_BACKGROUND + Dark Blue */ function get_header_bg($post) { $header_bg = false; if (has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) { $thumb_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID); $background_image = get_attached_file($thumb_id, 'full', true); $upload_dir = wp_upload_dir(); $base_dir = $upload_dir['basedir'] . '/backgrounds/'; // Build treated filename with thumb_id in case there are filename conflicts $treated_filename = preg_replace("/.+\/(.+)\.(\w{2,5})$/", $thumb_id."-$1-".IHC_BACKGROUND.".$2", $background_image); $treated_image = $base_dir . $treated_filename; // If treated file doesn't exist, create it if (!file_exists($treated_image)) { // Create background directory if necessary if(!file_exists($base_dir)) { mkdir($base_dir); } exec('/usr/local/bin/convert '.$background_image.' -colorspace gray -level +10% +level-colors "#44607f","#'.IHC_BACKGROUND.'" '.$treated_image); } $header_bg = ' style="background-image:url(' . $upload_dir['baseurl'] . '/backgrounds/' . $treated_filename . ');"'; } return $header_bg; }

It's always so difficult finding info on this sort of thing in ImageMagick forums, thought I'd give it a home in case someone else needs it. The basic command is:

convert source.jpg -colorspace gray -level +10% +level-colors "#44607f","#c1d6d8" treated.jpg

Which will give you this sort of treatment:

Update 4/2017: If newer versions of ImageMagick are giving you trouble, you can use this variation to get a similar duotone effect: