Django ImageField on non-loadable forms works from admin but not from form

So I have a system where users can choose from an existing image gallery or upload a new image to process and save.

First, the model:

class Post(models.Model):
    image = models.ForeignKey(Image, null=True, blank=True)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    slug = models.CharField(max_length=200, unique=True, blank=True)
    description = models.TextField(blank = True)
    text = models.TextField()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

      

        
        
        
      

    

and our form

class PostForm(BaseModelForm):
    new_image = forms.ImageField(required=False)

    def clean(self):

        return self.cleaned_data

class Meta:
    model = Post
    fields = ('title','text', 'image', 'new_image', description')

    help_texts = {
       'new_image': _('either upload a new image, or choose from the gallery')
    }

      

        
        
        
      

    

so our view where it gets processed

def post_new(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = PostForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
        if form.is_valid():
            post = form.save(commit=False)
            post.author = request.user
            post.slug=slugify(post.title)
            if form.cleaned_data.get('new_image'):
                image = Image(title=post.title, description=post.description, image = request.FILES['new_image'])
                image.save()
                post.image = image


            post.save()
            return redirect('post_detail', pk=post.pk)
    else:
        form = PostForm()
    return render(request, 'blog/post_edit.html', {'form': form})

      

        
        
        
      

    

Now what this should do is create a new image object from the form field and then save it to constrain the external key in the post model. But what it does is nothing, the post loads fine with an empty image field and the image is never generated. This makes me think that the if statement for new_image resolves to False, but I can't figure out why it would.

Also, for conventions sake, should this happen in the form class or the view class?

also, my image model is

class Image(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    description = models.TextField()
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to = 'images/', default =     'images/None/no-img.jpg')
    def __str__(self):
        return self.title