Posted by Daniel Tryba on 11/08/07 11:17

Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote:
> PHP's image functions are based on GD, which as you say are not great for
> photographic images.

Funny, I never noticed this... What is the problem of GD with
photographs? I don't see anything wrong...

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

I've heard this before somewhere else about a year or two ago. I
searched for benchmarks and found that sometimes gd is faster, sometimes
imagemagick IIRC. A link to usefull benchmarks would be nice.

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