[Tutor] Image manipluation (On-the-fly thumbnail creation)

[Patrick Sabin]

dan06 wrote:
> I've recently delved into python, about a week or so ago; I'm trying to
> figure out how to create on-the-fly thumbnails. Are there python standard
> library modules I could/should use or should I use external libraries like:
> GD, Gimp, or ImageMagick?  

When I needed thumbnails of my images, I created them using ImageMagick. 
  ImageMagick is a very nice tool for editing images and since it is 
called from the command line it is easy to invoke it from a programming 
language. There are python-bindings for it, but I think they are not 
very actively maintained and so I wouldn't use them.

Using PIL is another option and maybe more pythonic, but if you are 
familiar with ImageMagick it might be a good alternative.

- Patrick