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What is Photologue?
Photologue is a Django application, more specifically, it's a complete image management solution for your Django site. Photologue replaces the ImageField in Django with a powerful system that supports resizing and image effects as well as providing a turn-key photo gallery solution. Photologue embraces the Django admin and smoothly integrates with photo thumbnails and effect previews.
What does it do?
- Photologue allows you to define "Photo Sizes". "Photo Sizes" are predefined image specifications such as thumbnails, banners, display sizes and user portraits. "Photo Sizes" can be scaled to a height or width proportionately or cropped from the center, top, left, bottom or right. Photologue will resize your original images to the sizes on you define on request and cache the results for further requests.
- Photologue allows you to apply your own pre-defined "Photo Effects" to your "Photo Sizes" as well as individual photos. "Photo Effects" include adjusts such as "color", "brightness", "contrast" and "sharpness" as well as filters like "Find Edges" and "Emboss". Sharpen your images. Make your thumbnails black and white. It's auto-magical with Photologue.
- Photologue gives you the ability to upload an entire gallery of images at once in a .zip file. Save time uploading a large number of images and apply tags, effects, and more.
- Photologue parses EXIF information from supported files using the excellent EXIF.py module and stores the information as a Python property for easy access.
- Photologue's Photo model replaces the Django ImageField. Plug Photologue into your existing apps using foreign key relationships and enjoy a better experience managing uploaded images.
- Photologue is easy to use. Photo models are modified at runtime with several "accessor" methods for retrieving specific photo paths, urls, etc. For instance, if you defined a "display" photo size, your photo models would be extended with the following methods: "get_display_url", "get_display_path" and "get_display_size". These methods are added for each "Photo Size" you define.
- Photologue is efficient. Uploaded images are only resized and processed upon first request. It then caches the result saving disk space, memory and processing power. Individual "Photo Sizes" such as thumbnails can be "pre-cached" to improve performance.
- Photologue optionally supports the django-tagging application for setting tags on both your photos and galleries.
- Photologue comes with a complete set of example templates for setting up a photo gallery fast. Define a master template, apply some styles and you've got a complete photo gallery system for your site or blog.
- Photologue cleans up after itself. Unused files and folders are deleted automatically.
Dependancies
Photologue requires the Python Imaging Library. Tagging functionality requires the popular django-tagging application.