Automated image processing for Django
ImageKit is a Django app for processing images. Need a thumbnail? A black-and-white version of a user-uploaded image? ImageKit will make them for you. If you need to programatically generate one image from another, you need ImageKit.
ImageKit comes with a bunch of image processors for common tasks like resizing and cropping, but you can also create your own. For an idea of what’s possible, check out the Instakit project.
For the complete documentation on the latest stable version of ImageKit, see ImageKit on RTD.
Installation
- Install PIL or Pillow. (If you’re using an
ImageField
in Django, you should have already done this.) pip install django-imagekit
- Add
'imagekit'
to yourINSTALLED_APPS
list in your project’s settings.py
Note
If you’ve never seen Pillow before, it considers itself a more-frequently updated “friendly” fork of