from PIL import Image from io import BytesIO def rescale_image(image_object, base_width=720): img = Image.open(image_object) icc_profile = img.info.get('icc_profile') # remember color profile to not mess up colors width_percent = (base_width / float(img.size[0])) height = int((float(img.size[1]) * float(width_percent))) img = img.resize((base_width, height), Image.ANTIALIAS) img_bytes = BytesIO() img.save(img_bytes, 'JPEG', quality=75, optimize=True, icc_profile=icc_profile) return img_bytes