Python resize image keeping aspect ratio
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 by Frank LazzariniThis time I am posting just a little snippet which came in handy with the latest web development I am doing. The problem was to resize an uploaded image on the fly and creating an according thumbnail for that image. For testing purposes I create a script that could be executed on a number of files. So here it is
import os, sys, Image
size = 150, 150
for input in sys.argv[1:]:
output = os.path.splitext(input)[0] + ".thumbnail"
if input != output:
try:
im = Image.open(input)
im.thumbnail(size, Image.ANTIALIAS)
im.save(output, 'JPEG')
except IOError:
print "Could not create thumbnail for %s" % input
python resize.py /path/to/files/*
Hope this helps anybody coming across the same problem. Quick and dirty :)