from PIL import Image from cStringIO import StringIO from django.core.files.uploadedfile import SimpleUploadedFile class Photo(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length = 100) image = models.ImageField(upload_to ="photos/originals/%Y/%m/") image_height = models.IntegerField() image_width = models.IntegerField() thumbnail = models.ImageField(upload_to="photos/thumbs/%Y/%m/") thumbnail_height = models.IntegerField() thumbnail_width = models.IntegerField() caption = models.CharField(max_length = 250, blank =True) def __str__(self): return "%s"%self.title def __unicode__(self): return self.title def save(self, force_update=False, force_insert=False, thumb_size=(180,300)): image = Image.open(self.image) if image.mode not in ('L', 'RGB'): image = image.convert('RGB') # save the original size self.image_width, self.image_height = image.size image.thumbnail(thumb_size, Image.ANTIALIAS) # save the thumbnail to memory temp_handle = StringIO() image.save(temp_handle, 'png') temp_handle.seek(0) # rewind the file # save to the thumbnail field suf = SimpleUploadedFile(os.path.split(self.image.name)[-1], temp_handle.read(), content_type='image/png') self.thumbnail.save(suf.name+'.png', suf, save=False) self.thumbnail_width, self.thumbnail_height = image.size # save the image object super(Photo, self).save(force_update, force_insert)