Resizing the photo by protecting the aspect ratio on Django

Question

How can I resize image when I upload with ImageField by protecting aspect ratio of image.

Example: (Width x Height) from 1100x600 to 550x300

And, is it possible with [ImageKit] ? https://github.com/matthewwithanm/django-imagekit

Answer 1

You can use easy-thumbnails package for optimizing images. Just follow these steps:

1. First install easy-thumbnails package using command:

   pip install easy-thumbnails
   

2. Go to settings.py file and add easy_thumbnails to the INSTALLED_APPS setting as like:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
        # ...
        'easy_thumbnails',
   ]
   

3. Run this command to apply changes in database

   python manage.py migrate
   

4. Now go to your template and replace the line(as I supposed):

   <img src="{{ image.image.url }}">
   

   To the following lines:

   {% load thumbnail %}
   
   <img src="{% thumbnail image.image 550x300 %}"