Configuration

This section contains information about how to configure your Django projects to use django-thumbnail-works and also contains a quick reference of the available settings that can be used in order to customize the functionality of this application.

Configuring your project

In the Django project’s settings module, add thumbnail_works to the INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'thumbnail_works',
)

Reference of the application settings

The following settings can be specified in the Django project’s settings module to customize the functionality of django-thumbnail-works.

THUMBNAILS_FORMAT

If an image format is not specified in the thumbnail definition, this format is used to save the thumbnails or the original imageare (if it is processed). Valid values are any image formats supported by PIL. For instance, JPEG, PNG etc.

THUMBNAILS_QUALITY

This setting accepts an integer that represents the quality parameter when saving JPEG images. It is not used for other image formats.

THUMBNAILS_DIRNAME

This is the name of the directory where thumbnails are stored. By default, this is set to thubs, which means that the thumbnails are saved in the <media_root>/<upload_to>/thumbs/ directory.

THUMBNAILS_DELAYED_GENERATION

If this setting is set to True (the default), thumbnails are generated the first time they are accessed. If this is set to False, then all thumbnails are generated as soon as the original image is uploaded.