Posted by Chuck Anderson on 01/05/07 03:52

berkshire@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Rik,
>
> phpThumb actually has an unsharp mask filter built in and I've tickered
> with it, but I still can't get the quality up to what photoshop
> produces by default. I adobe is the gold standard, but resizing an
> image seems rather trivial so I thought php could do it w/o a problem.
>
> On Jan 4, 5:41 pm, "Rik" <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> berksh...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Anyone know of a script out there that can resize images and not
>>> sacrifice image quality? I've been using phpthumb
>>> (http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/) but when compared to an image
>>> resized in photoshop it's products are not as good (yeah I upped the
>>> image quality and tried out some filters - no luck).
>>>
>>> Tutorials or scripts online preferred are preferred, but if you know
>>> of a way to change the settings on phpthumb to maintain the quality
>>> that would work too. Heck I'm even willing to use another scripting
>>> language if necessary.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!http://vikjavev.no/computing/ump.php
>>>
>> --
>> Rik Wasmus
>>
>
>

Resizing or resampling? The latter produces much better quality. A
smidgen of unsharp mask tops it off. I use ImageMagick, but now that I
know about ump.php, I'll be giving it a try.

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