PIL's crop
method can actually handle this for you by using numbers that are outside the bounding box of the original image, though it's not explicitly stated in the documentation. Negative numbers for left and top will add black pixels to those edges, while numbers greater than the original width and height for right and bottom will add black pixels to those edges.
This code accounts for odd pixel sizes:
from PIL import Image
with Image.open('/path/to/image.gif') as im:
old_size = im.size
new_size = (800, 800)
if new_size > old_size:
# Set number of pixels to expand to the left, top, right,
# and bottom, making sure to account for even or odd numbers
if old_size[0] % 2 == 0:
add_left = add_right = (new_size[0] - old_size[0]) // 2
else:
add_left = (new_size[0] - old_size[0]) // 2
add_right = ((new_size[0] - old_size[0]) // 2) + 1
if old_size[1] % 2 == 0:
add_top = add_bottom = (new_size[1] - old_size[1]) // 2
else:
add_top = (new_size[1] - old_size[1]) // 2
add_bottom = ((new_size[1] - old_size[1]) // 2) + 1
left = 0 - add_left
top = 0 - add_top
right = old_size[0] + add_right
bottom = old_size[1] + add_bottom
# By default, the added pixels are black
im = im.crop((left, top, right, bottom))
Instead of the 4-tuple, you could instead use a 2-tuple to add the same number of pixels on the left/right and top/bottom, or a 1-tuple to add the same number of pixels to all sides.