I am really late to the party here, but I wanted to clarify something about accessing model data for anyone else that happens on to this thread. I just faced this issue while using Paperclip to apply watermarks based on data from the model, and got it working after a lot of investigation.
The :styles property takes a Proc as argument, so you can do all kinds of fancy stuff :).
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