Or you could have a look at google appengine for your image storage. They have an picassa like API that would allow you to do lots of stuff to your images on the fly and you wouldn't pay for any of the processor cost (or storage if you're under 500M). Just a thought. Ben
2008/7/11 Eric Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It's intensive, but not prohibitively so. I've used a few setups where > large image files were uploaded and, depending on the options, two or > even three different versions of the image are created in the save() > method. The server has yet to explode. Try poking through some of > these snippets and see if anything appeals to you: > > http://www.djangosnippets.org/tags/thumbnail/ > > Eric > > > On Jul 11, 2008, at 3:53 AM, TheBoff wrote: > > > > > To jump straight in to the question: > > > > I'm wrinting a website using the automatic admin interface, and am > > wondering if there's any way to create a thumbnail automatically upon > > the upload of the image. > > > > I know I could set it as a property, and use PIL to do it on the fly > > (well I assume I could, I haven't checked it in any detail!), but > > wouldn't that be hugely processor intensive? > > > > > > > > > > -- Regards, Ben Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] +447792598685 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
