Image resizing with django?

Question

I\'m new to Django (and Python) and I have been trying to work out a few things myself, before jumping into using other people\'s apps. I\'m having trouble understanding whe

Answer 1

Another alternative is to use Imagemagick directly, if you want to avoid several difficulties with Pillow and Python 3 such as this one.

from subprocess import call
call(['convert', img_path_file_name, '-thumbnail', target_size_str, '-antialias', style_path_file_name])

You could call this on model save, or on a template tag to generate an one-off manipulated copy of the original file in a file-caching fashion, or even a celery task.

You can get an example of how I have used this in one of my projects:

• main function
• relevant settings
• templatetag
• how to use