Re: Image Question

Well my host had GD "2.0 or higher" installed. Wonder if there is something I need to ask my host about the package they have installed? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Stone" <kevin@helpelf.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Image Question > Could it be you're unwittingly converting the graphic into 8bit color? > That's certainly what it looks like. I've read that older versions of PHP > and GD library don't always translate color depth. I don't have much > experience programming graphics in PHP but I thought I'd offer up this > possiblity. Hope it helps. -Kevin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick Emery" <remery@excel.com> > To: "'Jay Paulson'" <jpaulson@lbjs.com>; > <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 4:19 PM > Subject: RE: [PHP] Image Question > > > > First, why store it in a database? Why not store it as a separate file, > > then store pointer/file-name to it in database? > > > > If you do want it in the database (may I assume mysql?), then INSERT/LOAD > > the file directly into the field without conversion. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jay Paulson [mailto:jpaulson@lbjs.com] > > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:20 PM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] Image Question > > > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > I'm uploading an image, resizing it, then base64_encoding it to put the > > image into a data base.. then when I view it out of the data base using > the > > base64_decode function it looks horrible. > > > > Below is the original image off of IMDB.com > > > http://us.imdb.com/ImageView?u=http%3A//images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005K3O > > 4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg > > > > And here is the image I get after the resize etc. > > http://www.dvdfuture.com/image.php?id=95 > > > > I'm using imagejpeg with the quality set to 90 so I really don't know why > > it's looking so badly. > > > > Thanks, > > Jay > > > > ps phpinfo is at the following URL > > http://www.dvdfuture.com/tests/testphp.phtml > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php