On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:37 AM, TheBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Photologue is perhaps a bit heavyweight for my current purposes,
> although it looks like an extremely impressive bit of kit, and were I
> to make a dedicated photo gallery etc app with django, I would
> certainly use it.


This is the exact reason I just used sorl-thumbnail:
http://code.google.com/p/sorl-thumbnail/

It's a dead easy template tag and it works great.

Photologue is really, really nice. It's just a little more than I need right
now.

/alex

On Jul 11, 8:39 pm, blis102 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You could also use django-photologue. Its quite powerful and very
> > useful in templates:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/django-photologue/
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dana
> >
> > On Jul 11, 12:47 am, "Ben Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
>

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