RE: [PHP] High quality image resizing
| From: | Jake McHenry | Date: | Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:32:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] High quality image resizing | ||
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>
> > On Fri, March 23, 2007 10:57 am, Markus Fischer wrote:
> >> I'm searching for a high quality image resizing facility to be used
> >> within PHP in an Unix/Linux environment.
> >>
> >> Probably everyone will now answer: imagecopyresampled()
> >>
> >> However, the quality of that functionality doesn't match the
> >> expectations of our designers. I've done my tests with
> PHP4 and GD
> >> lib
> >> 2.0.33 and everything produces with them got rejected so far. I was
> >> also
> >> going through the comments on php.net regarding self-written
> >> Bicubical
> >> algorithm functions, yet their outcome didn't match.
> >>
> >> My next step was to try ImageMagick. The quality is much
> better when
> >> using the 'mogrify' tool from this package, yet not good enough
> >> for my
> >> designers.
> >>
> >> Of course, their expectations are very high because of their daily
> >> usage
> >> of Photoshop. During my research I was running over
> >> http://resizr.lord-lance.com/ which uses an commercial
> >> Windows
> >> library.
> >> Using a commercial package would be completely fine for
> me, however I
> >> just haven't found anything, thus this message.
> >>
> >> Whether the tool is a PHP library or just an ordinary Unix command
> >> doesn't matter, as long as it is usable from within PHP.
> >
>
> What are their expectations and what is the use for the final output?
>
> Also, what are they saying is wrong with the files? (I'm guessing
> they are to 'fuzzy', that's the main gripe I have with GD. But it
> doesn't stop me from using it to resize images for a web
> page, unless
> you're resizing large images with text down to a 'usable' size.)
>
> Are they just being 'designers' and nothing is going to be good
> enough but photoshop?
>
> Maybe PHP/Unix isn't the way to go?
>
> Ed
>
Yea.. Go mac if you want the best for pics :) and its still unix :))))
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