Posted by Curtis on 02/01/07 05:10

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:58:57 -0800, Kentor <kentor@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have users that submit images to my website. By default I choose to
> make the width bigger than the height because usually pictures are
> taken horizontally... But in some cases people take pictures
> vertically so what I'm getting at is... can I know whether an image
> was taken horizontally or vertically so I can make the proper width/
> height lengths so that it looks nice and not kinda weird... because if
> you make the width bigger than the height of an image that is supposed
> to have a bigger height than width, it looks kinda ugly.. And also is
> there a way to know when I've enlarged the image too much? because if
> an image submitted was small and I make it bigger, then it also
> becomes kind of ugly to look at because I guess there aren't enough
> pixels... thanks for your help.
>
> Simon
>

If you are using the GD library, have a look at imagecopyresampled:

Example: "Example 2. Resampling an image proportionally"
http://php.net/imagecopyresampled

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