Django Photo Gallery Sample

Summary

This sample contains a Django 2.0.x Image Gallery Site. The album images are optimized for performance. The Django Photo Gallery Sample is responsive and mobile/device friendly.

Create an album from the Django admin panel

Albums can be created from the Django admin panel where one zip file with all the images should be selected from the PC. The Django Photo Gallery will resize the images to improve the picute load times and will also create thumbnail for every image in the zip.

Tested with Django / Python

Additional Django apps dependencies

• Pillow
• django-imagekit

Additional JavaScript apps dependencies

• jquery
• photoswipe

Prerequisites

• Django-Python development environment already set up.
• virtualenv installed.

Solution

Version history

Disclaimer

THIS CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Minimal Path to Awesome

• Clone this repository.
• Open the command line, navigate to the django app folder and execute:
  • virtualenv env (requires virtualenv), Mac virtualenv yourenv -p python3.6
  • Linux: source env/bin/activate, Windows: call env/Scripts/activate.bat, Mac source env/bin/activate
  • navigate to the django_photo_gallery folder using cd django_photo_gallery
  • execute pip install -r requirements.txt or pip3 install -r requirements.txt depending on your python installation.
  • If the Pillow fail to install on Windows, then install it manually pip install ../whl/Pillow-5.0.0-cp36-none-win32.whl (if you are not using python 3.6 32 bit then download the Pillow wheel for your python version).
  • Run python manage.py migrate or python3 manage.py migrate
  • Run python manage.py runserver or python3 manage.py runserver depending on your python installation
  • Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in web browser.
  • To access the admin forms go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ and enter user: admin, password: administrator

Features

This Sample illustrates the following concepts on top of the Django Framework:

• Using django-material and materializecss for building Django UI.
• Using django-imagekit for building resizing images.
• Using photoswipe javascript library for more rich image gallery user experience.

Control the image size and quality

The picture size and quality can be controlled programatically from the models.py. Just change the processors. For more information see django-imagekit.

class AlbumImage(models.Model):
    image = ProcessedImageField(upload_to='albums', processors=[ResizeToFit(1280)], format='JPEG', options={'quality': 70})
    thumb = ProcessedImageField(upload_to='albums', processors=[ResizeToFit(300)], format='JPEG', options={'quality': 80})
    ...

Sample data cleanup

To cleanup the sample data delete the sql lite database and the media folder files. Create new database and run the sample again.

No validation on the form

This is sample. I decided to keep it simple and let the validation to be added by you.

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