using image field only for thumbnails

[Frank Vèssia]

I'm storing my images on Amazons3 using an url field inside a template as my image path but i want to store only the big version on Amazon and let PW take care of the small thumbs.

The problem is that the image field stores the original image before creating the thumb. Is there a way to save the first image already as thumb using the size() function ? something like $page->images->add()->size() and than save?

[Harmster]

Maybe first add it, thumb it save it and then delete the original?

[ryan]

Since you'll be maintaining separate thumbnails from the large images, then I would just consider any images you upload to your PW install to be thumbnails. You can set the max width/height in the image field settings, so you'd just choose dimensions that are consistent with your thumbnails.

[Frank Vèssia]

Thanks Ryan