Media

Transparent Image Padder

Add transparent padding to images, perfect for creating icons, logos, and web graphics with spacing

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/image-pad-transparent' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/imageFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/image-pad-transparent' \
  -F 'imageFile=/path/to/file.ext' \
  -F 'padMode=uniform' \
  -F 'uniformPadding=25' \
  -F 'topPadding=0' \
  -F 'rightPadding=0' \
  -F 'bottomPadding=0' \
  -F 'leftPadding=0' \
  -F 'format=png' \
  -F 'quality=90'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/image-pad-transparent

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
imageFile	fileupload required	Yes	Upload any image file (JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, BMP)
padMode	select	Yes	Choose how to apply transparent padding to the image
uniformPadding	number	No	Padding to add on all sides when using uniform mode
topPadding	number	No	Padding to add to the top edge
rightPadding	number

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-image-pad-transparent": {
      "name": "image-pad-transparent",
      "description": "Add transparent padding to images, perfect for creating icons, logos, and web graphics with spacing",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=image-pad-transparent",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "image-pad-transparent",
    "arguments": {
  "imageFile": "https://example.com/file.ext",
  "padMode": "uniform",
  "uniformPadding": 25,
  "topPadding": 0,
  "rightPadding": 0,
  "bottomPadding": 0,
  "leftPadding": 0,
  "format": "png",
  "quality": 90
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).