Playing around with creating an image with thumb field (haven't even run this code, so don't blame me if it doesn't work)

gistfile1.py

import os
from django.db import models
from easy_thumbnails.fields import ThumbnailerImageField
from easy_thumbnails.files import Thumbnailer, ThumbnailerImageFieldFile
import uuid


def _get_file_path(instance, filename):
    filename = str(uuid.uuid4()) + os.splitext(filename)
    return '/'.join('photo', filename)


class WithThumbFile(ThumbnailerImageFieldFile):

    @property
    def thumb(self):
        """
        Return the thumbnail.
        """
        if not self.field.thumb_options:
            return
        return SubfolderThumbnailer(
            file=self,
            name=self.name,
            source_storage=self.field.storage,
            thumbnail_storage=self.field.storage,
        ).get_thumbnail(self.field.thumb_options)

    def save(self, name, content, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Save the source file, and save the thumb.
        """
        super(WithThumbFile, self).save(name, content, *args, **kwargs)
        # Retrieve (and therefore save) the thumbnail.
        self.thumb


class SubfolderThumbnailer(Thumbnailer):

    def get_thumbnail_name(self, thumbnail_options, transparent=False):
        """
        Get the thumbnail name by offsetting the current image path with
        a thumbnail subdirectory.
        """
        source_extension = os.path.splitext(self.name)[1]

        # Would be nice if someone abstracted the extension generation to another
        # method, hint hint.
        if self.thumbnail_preserve_extensions == True or  \
            (self.thumbnail_preserve_extensions and  \
            source_extension.lower() in self.thumbnail_preserve_extensions):
                extension = source_extension
        elif transparent:
            extension = self.thumbnail_transparency_extension
        else:
            extension = self.thumbnail_extension
        extension = extension or 'jpg'

        name = self.name
        if extension != source_extension:
            name += extension

        base, name = os.path.split(name)
        return os.path.join(base, 'thumbs', name)


class ImageWithThumb(ThumbnailerImageField):
    attr_class = WithThumbFile

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.thumb_options = kwargs.pop('thumb', None)
        super(ImageWithThumb, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)


class Photo(models.Model):
    """
    Access the thumbnail via photo_instance.image.thumb
    """
    image = ImageWithThumb(upload_to=_get_file_path, thumb={'size': (800, 300)})
    description = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True)