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Python Django Forms Inlines and Media Inline Model Formset

Inline formsets with image cropping using jquery plugin

I have a Product Model and an Image Model that has a foreign key to the Product, it is similar with the example in the video(multiple images,drag and drop and remove link).

But instead of a simple CharField I have an ImageField.

The user adds one or multiple images to the product. The Users can add different images as ratio, dimensions so behind we need to process the image.

I take a look for this on the workshop "Image Manipulation with python", but if I resize/crop the image automatically can look bad, so I want to offer to the user the possibility to see and select what to crop thru jquery, with a plugin like (http://www.croppic.net/) . It is not important the plugin, but I want to have the possibility to zoom and move left, right.

I found the package django-image-cropping but you cannot move left-right or zoom and the plugin(jquery part) is old. I also checked django-imagekit, sorl-thumbnail, django-versatileimagefield but they are missing the interaction of the user on cropping.

So I thought to try something myself, to get the data from the jquery rectangle-canvas after the user submitted and sent to django to do the crop.

Unfortunately I couldn't do it yet, so maybe someone has some suggestions, snippets how to do it.

Maybe with or without Django Rest Framework.