SqFrame is an open-source tool written in Rust, that facilitates the creation of a square frame around an image, with a blurred background.
For example, 
A few days ago (around November 5th, 2023), I realized something. I am a huge fan of the game of chess, and play games every day, about which I post on Instagram (check out my profile lol). Instagram allows for multiple slides (images) in posts, but all slides of a post have to be in the same aspect ratio. I always choose 1:1 (a square), and for this I find myself sending screenshots of my games over from my laptop to my phone, making a square frame with InShot, and sending the edited image back to my laptop to post on instagram.com. This process gets boring when you have to do it every day, and so, like a wise programmer once said, I decided to work smarter and not harder. I decided to automate this process with a single program. Now, of course, this would've been much MUCH easier to write in Python (my first language, and the language I have the most experience with), but I was learning Rust and decided to make this my second project following my word guessing game.
Navigate to the latest release and download the appropriate 64-bit binary from the directory corresponding to your operating system, or download from the release/ folder. Move this binary to some directory in your $PATH environment variable, and you're all set.
Yesterday (November 8th, 2023) I used SqFrame to edit images for my Instagram, for the first time ever: A horrible game In order to use SqFrame, first install it, and then run the following command:
$ sqframe -h
A tool to create a square frame with a blurred background for any image, to match the aspect ratio 1:1
Usage: sqframe [OPTIONS]
Options:
-i, --input-path <INPUT_PATH> Input file path, defaults to clipboard
-o, --output-path <OUTPUT_PATH> Output file path, defaults to clipboard
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
Everything you need to know is displayed here.
$ sqframe # reads from the clipboard and saves the edited version to the clipboard
$ sqframe -i /path/to/input-image.png # reads from /path/to/input-image.png and saves the edited version to the clipboard
$ sqframe -o /path/to/output-image.png # reads from the clipboard and saves the edited version to /path/to/output-image.png
$ sqframe -i /path/to/input-image.png -o /path/to/output-image.png # reads from /path/to/input-image.png and saves the edited version to /path/to/output-image.pngIf -o /path/to/output-image.png is specified and there is already a file at /path/to/output-image.png, SqFrame backs up this file in a temporary directory to prevent any loss of data. This is done even after the user permits the program to replace the original file.
On macOS, images of certain dimensions, such as this one 
