Create JPEG thumbnails

From Julian Yap

Create JPEG Thumbnails

From here:

import os, sys
import Image

#size = 128, 128
# ImageShack uses:
size = (152, 167)

for infile in sys.argv[1:]:
    outfile = os.path.splitext(infile)[0] + ".thumbnail"
    if infile != outfile:
        try:
            im = Image.open(infile)
            im.thumbnail(size, Image.ANTIALIAS)
            im.save(outfile, "JPEG")
        except IOError:
            print "cannot create thumbnail for", infile

Notes:

• It would be handy to grab the size and file size of the image to later throw into ALT tags.
• This produces the best quality Anti-aliased thumbnails.