URLs of resized images in media libraries

When you resize an image that you inserted into a media library using a web part, the editor, or a form control, the URL of the image changes in the following way:

Resizing image to

Resizing is done by

The image URL

Larger size

Browser (css styles)

The file path
(e.g., /Kentico/CorpSite/media/MyPictureGallery/Panda.jpg)

No change

None

The file path
(e.g., /Kentico/CorpSite/media/MyPictureGallery/Panda.jpg)

Smaller size

Internal resizing - a new file is created

Permanent URL*
(e.g., /Kentico/getmedia/ed0be744-9e70-4056-8c7d-91fc5087813c/Panda.jpg.aspx?width=100&height=66)

*Learn about configuring general media library settings to make the system use permanent URLs.

Every time you resize an image to a smaller size, the system makes a new copy of this image with this dimensions in the __thumbnails folder, which is located in the original image’s folder. The images are resized into smaller files to save bandwidth. You can override this behavior by setting the getPermanent variable in the btnImagePreview_Click method within the CMSModules\Content\Controls\Dialogs\Properties\HTMLMediaProperties.cs file to false.

Resized image with permanent URL

The system also creates a new file every time you display this image as a thumbnail (e.g., in the Tiles or Thumbnails display tab of the Media library properties window).
Resizing to a larger size is not done internally (the system does not create any files), such feature could be exploited to bring the server down, e.g., resizing the image to 1000000 height and 1000000 width could consume the server resources.