Re: GD vs Imagick

2017-08-15 13:52 GMT+03:00 Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk>: > The following GD issue is all-too common: > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5773032/how-to-stop-gd2-from-washing-away-the-colors-upon-resizing-images|� > o[80[����[� > > Basically anyone who's ever accepted uploaded images and resized or > converted them, has bumped into this. > > Only Imagick makes it possible to work around this issue, it's not possible > with GD, at all - and the internal behavior of GD is arguably "wrong", as > the visible output of simply opening and saving a JPEG image with GD is > mangled with washed-out colors. > > I am starting to wonder why GD is the default in PHP? > > It's a pretty outdated library with a clunky API - we have Imagick with a > much more concise API and a ton more useful features. > > Why is the less-capable image library the default on the PHP platform? Why > not Imagick? Imagick - unsafe, slow and requires many external dependencies. Now there are much better modules: Vips - safe, much faster (7x) requires little dependency. http://pecl.php.net/package/vips It's better to spend your time on Vips , instead of having an Imagick Thank.