Say you have a form where someone can upload a profile image. The uploaded image can be of any size of course, but you want all the profile images to fit inside a certain frame. You could just set the dimensions on the image tag to this size, but in most browsers that would look ugly, and it would also most likely stretch the image. It would look awful. In addition you would be serving a image which most likely was a lot larger than you wanted it to be. This would cost you bandwidth.

In this case you might want to proportionally resize the image to the appropriate size when you get it uploaded. You can then store the resized image instead and serve it directly with no problems afterwards. It doesn’t have to be difficult! Here’s how 🙂

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