Help Required with Image Upload

Hello All,

Am pretty new to Django. I am trying to create a form which will upload an image and then enable the user to crop visually (using JCrop plugin). Am not completely sure on how to implement this in Django. I am thinking of first saving the uploaded image into the disk as a jpeg file and then load and display the image as an overlay where the user can crop the image. I am able to create a form with the image field and then am passing over request.FILE to a function called handle_uploaded_image. Following is my handle_uploaded_image function

def handle_uploaded_image(self, image):

    """

    This function is to handle uploaded image file

    """    

    imageFile = Image.open(StringIO.StringIO(image.read()))

    fileName = hashlib.md5(imageFile.getvalue()).hexdigest()+'.jpg'

Now i am kind of confused on how to convert the uploaded image into jpg using PIL, and then saving into the disk. I had defined a field in my model to save the image file name which is as follows:

class UserProfile(models.Model):

avatar = models.ImageField(_('Avatar'),upload_to=settings.IMAGE_UPLOAD_PATH, null=True)

I did this based on the django documentation, but it tells something about binding the form which am not able to correctly understand. Why do we need to bind a form with image field. Also whats the use of giving upload_to in model image field? Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,

Swaroop Shankar V

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