I am going to need to store a number of image files (up to 1000) of artwork on a site I am creating. I will need to display them as thumbnails (150px), medium sized images (600px) and larger images (900px). There will be occasion to show all the thumbnails on an admin page, where certain qualities are set. Otherwise, I will be displaying up to 25 150px images at a time. The large images (600px & 900px). will be displayed one at a time.
For ease of coding, it is tempting to store them in a database field, retrieve them and size them in php (or html once the image is generated) for insertion where needed. Otherwise, I could store them in a directory and point to them after retrieving their location from a database field resizing them either with php or html. I could also create all three image sizes when uploading and store them in different directories, simply pointing to them in html, but this greatly increases required disk space.
Any opinions of +s and -s? Speed is probably the biggest consideration. I presume resizing in html is the slowest, as it requires downloading the image before resizing it.
Thanks,
–Kenoli