PHP Image handling functions reduce photo quality

[auro]

When making thumbnails or icons dynamically, PHP reduces the quality to a large extent. Output seems to be too much distorted.

 

Can anyone please help how to retain the quality?

[corbin]

Distorted?  How?  Is the quality degraded or does the image get squished?

[DarkWater]

1) You need to resize in proportion.

2) Use imagecopyresampled instead of imagecopyresized if you want better quality.

[ratcateme]

if you are using GD you can set the image to high quality using this

imagejpeg($im,$output_file,100);

also some formates give better quality than others

 

Scott.

[auro]

Ya i'm retaining the proportion.

 

and yes i'm using imagecopyresampled...

 

but it destroys the image quality to a large extent when i try to resize the image to even 80%

 

I think it is because i'm making small thumbnails. Thumbnail width is 120, 180 etc. from image of 240

 

 

Thanks for replying DarkWater and Corbin

[auro]

Thanks scott!