imagecopyresampled creating washed out images

[bob4roxio]

Is there any better quality method for creating resized images? I'm
using imagecreatetruecolor and imagecopyresampled and making sure my
imagejpeg quality is set at 100 but the client I'm writing this for is
a photographer and is still noticing a color shifting/washing out.

From what I saw on the php.net with destination images bigger than

200x200 the imagecopyresamplebicubic is lower quality.

So is there a way to improve on the quality of imagecopyresampled /
imagecreatetruecolor combination or is that as good as it gets? Am I
stuck just using photoshop to create the thumbnails if I want the best
quality?

[Andy Hassall]

On 17 Jan 2005 14:05:27 -0800, bo*******@hotmail.com wrote:

Is there any better quality method for creating resized images? I'm
using imagecreatetruecolor and imagecopyresampled and making sure my
imagejpeg quality is set at 100 but the client I'm writing this for is
a photographer and is still noticing a color shifting/washing out.

From what I saw on the php.net with destination images bigger than

200x200 the imagecopyresamplebicubic is lower quality.

So is there a way to improve on the quality of imagecopyresampled /
imagecreatetruecolor combination or is that as good as it gets? Am I
stuck just using photoshop to create the thumbnails if I want the best
quality?

Consider using imagemagick [1]; for creating photo thumbnails, it outperforms
GD (see [2]) and tends to produce better quality images - and has more options
to adjust the image to your liking.

[1]http://www.imagemagick.org/
[2]http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=mgx6c.615%24Fo4.4744%40typhoon.sonic.n et

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