Norman Khine wrote: > The image box, for example is 250x250. > So from the example on > http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/image.htm I will have > something like: > > from PIL import Image > import glob, os > > size = 250, 250 > > for infile in glob.glob("*.jpg"): > file, ext = os.path.splitext(infile) > im = Image.open(infile) > im.thumbnail(size, Image.ANTIALIAS) > im.save(file + ".thumbnail", "JPEG") > > But this creates a 250x250 thumbnail
Only if you apply it on a square image. > whereas I would like if the image > is say 500x635 in size to reduce this to 196x250 and the same for my > portrait image if this is 625x500 to reduce this to 250x196 Not sure how you're rounding things here, but PIL's thumbnail method does indeed preserve the aspect ratio: >>> from PIL import Image >>> im = Image.new("RGB", (500, 635)) >>> im.size (500, 635) >>> im.thumbnail((250, 250)) >>> im.size (197, 250) >>> im = Image.new("RGB", (625, 500)) >>> im.size (625, 500) >>> im.thumbnail((250, 250)) >>> im.size (250, 200) >>> </F> _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig