Have you looked at the Blobstore API?

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overview.html#Using_the_Image_Service_with_the_Blobstore

Users can upload files up to 2GB, and the Image API can *load* images
from Blobstore. The only limitation is that the resulting image has to
be less than 1MB.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Kelly A <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am sure that no one on the App Engine team can comment on this but I
> just have to talk about it to get it off my chest cause it is a
> constant pain in my butt.
>
> Many modern jpeg images will decompress to sizes over 1 megabyte, even
> those taken with the cheapest of point and shoot digital cameras.  So
> people uploading images to your application that are few hundred
> kilobytes are too big to be resized to a thumbnail because when the
> image functions decompresses the jpeg it is greater than 1 megabyte
> and blamo! You get the too big error and your whole application re-
> initializes. I cannot begin to communicate how much of a bummer this
> is.
>
> I know that the product road map has and entry for "Raise request/
> response size limits for some APIs" would this address this issue? If
> so, might we see it this year? If not can some one put some thought
> into how this might be a priority?
>
> Thanks for listening.
> -=Kelly
>
> p.s. I know I can implement a client side solution and am doing such,
> but I am not particularly fond of having to add more flash components
> to my site and I will never use a Java applet in a web page.
>
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