looks like in PIL, resize() will give high quality thumbnails than thumbnail()

Summercoolness at gmail.com Summercoolness at gmail.com
Sat Jul 1 06:58:32 EDT 2006


Summercooln... at gmail.com wrote:
> In PIL, since thumbnail() first makes a draft copy of the image, and
> then resize it, so thumbnail() can run a lot faster than resize()
> because draft() seems a lot faster when resizing from very big images
> to small images...  (such as the original image is 3000 x 2000, and it
> can make a draft really quickly to 375 x 250, and then resize to, say
> 200 x 133 as a thumbnail)

as a matter of fact, i tried using thumbnail() to resize photos of 3456
x 2304 to 800 x 533 and it is a lot faster than using resize()




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