ImageKit is a Django app that helps you to add variations of uploaded images
to your models. These variations are called "specs" and can include things
like different sizes (e.g. thumbnails) and black and white versions.

**For the complete documentation on the latest stable version of ImageKit, see**
`ImageKit on RTD`_.

.. _`ImageKit on RTD`: http://django-imagekit.readthedocs.org


Installation
------------

1. Install `PIL`_ or `Pillow`_. If you're using an ``ImageField`` in Django,
   you should have already done this.
2. ``pip install django-imagekit``
   (or clone the source and put the imagekit module on your path)
3. Add ``'imagekit'`` to your ``INSTALLED_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 PIL that's compatible with
   setuptools. As such, it shares the same namespace as PIL does and is a
   drop-in replacement.

.. _`PIL`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PIL
.. _`Pillow`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow


Adding Specs to a Model
-----------------------

Much like ``django.db.models.ImageField``, Specs are defined as properties
of a model class::

    from django.db import models
    from imagekit.models.fields import ImageSpecField

    class Photo(models.Model):
        original_image = models.ImageField(upload_to='photos')
        formatted_image = ImageSpecField(image_field='original_image', format='JPEG',
                options={'quality': 90})

Accessing the spec through a model instance will create the image and return
an ImageFile-like object (just like with a normal
``django.db.models.ImageField``)::

    photo = Photo.objects.all()[0]
    photo.original_image.url # > '/media/photos/birthday.tiff'
    photo.formatted_image.url # > '/media/cache/photos/birthday_formatted_image.jpeg'

Check out ``imagekit.models.fields.ImageSpecField`` for more information.


Processors
----------

The real power of ImageKit comes from processors. Processors take an image, do
something to it, and return the result. By providing a list of processors to
your spec, you can expose different versions of the original image::

    from django.db import models
    from imagekit.models.fields import ImageSpecField
    from imagekit.processors import ResizeToFill, Adjust

    class Photo(models.Model):
        original_image = models.ImageField(upload_to='photos')
        thumbnail = ImageSpecField([Adjust(contrast=1.2, sharpness=1.1),
                ResizeToFill(50, 50)], image_field='original_image',
                format='JPEG', options={'quality': 90})

The ``thumbnail`` property will now return a cropped image::

    photo = Photo.objects.all()[0]
    photo.thumbnail.url # > '/media/cache/photos/birthday_thumbnail.jpeg'
    photo.thumbnail.width # > 50
    photo.original_image.width # > 1000

The original image is not modified; ``thumbnail`` is a new file that is the
result of running the ``imagekit.processors.ResizeToFill`` processor on the
original.

The ``imagekit.processors`` module contains processors for many common
image manipulations, like resizing, rotating, and color adjustments. However,
if they aren't up to the task, you can create your own. All you have to do is
implement a ``process()`` method::

    class Watermark(object):
        def process(self, image):
            # Code for adding the watermark goes here.
            return image

    class Photo(models.Model):
        original_image = models.ImageField(upload_to='photos')
        watermarked_image = ImageSpecField([Watermark()], image_field='original_image',
                format='JPEG', options={'quality': 90})


Admin
-----

ImageKit also contains a class named ``imagekit.admin.AdminThumbnail``
for displaying specs (or even regular ImageFields) in the
`Django admin change list`_. AdminThumbnail is used as a property on
Django admin classes::

    from django.contrib import admin
    from imagekit.admin import AdminThumbnail
    from .models import Photo


    class PhotoAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
        list_display = ('__str__', 'admin_thumbnail')
        admin_thumbnail = AdminThumbnail(image_field='thumbnail')


    admin.site.register(Photo, PhotoAdmin)

AdminThumbnail can even use a custom template. For more information, see
``imagekit.admin.AdminThumbnail``.

.. _`Django admin change list`: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial02/#customize-the-admin-change-list


Contributing
------------

We love contributions! And you don't have to be an expert with the library—or
even Django—to contribute either: ImageKit's processors are standalone classes
that are completely separate from the more intimidating internals of Django's
ORM. If you've written a processor that you think might be useful to other
people, open a pull request so we can take a look!

ImageKit's image cache backends are also fairly isolated from the ImageKit guts.
If you've fine-tuned one to work perfectly for a popular file storage backend,
let us take a look! Maybe other people could use it.