Django Image watermarking procedure

Question

I am using django in one of my web applications for an image oriented website. I don't want to make these images available to unauthorized users so I decided to watermark the images with a transparent logo I have already made. I found a module called django-watermark but I don't want to use it because its creator no longer maintains it.

How can I watermark the images without using that module?

Answer 1

You should look into using django-imagekit . I've started using it recently, and have found it to be pleasingly simple and powerful.

In this report of watermarking images , the author forks django-imagekit , but you should be able to copy/re-implement his processors. (See watermark.py in his fork ).