Question: I've been looking at the sorl-thumbnail's documentation, and I still can't figure out how to:

1. upload images to sorl-thumbnail.
2. selectively show images from sorl-thumbnail.
(for example, load a specific image from sorl-thumbnail from a view and show it, with customized size, etc.)

Could you give some specific examples on how to use this library in a django view?

Answer: 
If you want greater flexibility you can generate the thumbnail right in the view. The following is straight from the [sorl-thumbnail documentation](http://sorl-thumbnail.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples.html#low-level-api-examples):

```
from sorl.thumbnail import get_thumbnail

im = get_thumbnail(my_file, '100x100', crop='center', quality=99)

```

`im` then is the same thing as what you'd get back from the `thumbnail` template tag. So, you can add that variable to the template context, or just some part of it. For example if you just wanted the URL:

```
my_context = {
    'image_url': im.url,
}

```
You can use sorl.thumbnail using the thumbnail template tags. Here's an example:

```
{% load thumbnail %}

{% thumbnail recipe.image "430x250" as thumb %}
     <img src="{{ thumb.url }}" width="{{ thumb.width }}" height="{{ thumb.height }}" alt="{{ recipe.title }}" />
{% endthumbnail %}

```

You don't upload images to sorl.thumbnail or load them from sorl.thumbnail. After proper configuration it will resize and store the images automatically and you can use the `thumbnail` template tag to get the proper URL of the image.