Posted by Andy Hassall on 10/30/20 11:17

On 30 May 2005 03:10:26 -0700, "frizzle" <phpfrizzle@gmail.com> wrote:

>now my question, what would be the best way to reduce the size of the
>pics
>to approximately max. 500 px * 500 px.
>I could use PHP of course, but i'm not really satisfied with the
>quality of
>PHP-resized images... (it's ok for thumbnails, but not for the large
>versions...)

PHP's image functions are based on GD, which as you say are not great for
photographic images.

ImageMagick does a better job on photographs - although you usually have to
call it as an external process. It's also faster.

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