Poor Image Quality Using GD Library Script

[sintax63]

I am using a script that is comprised of an example I found online in a tutorial, and some bits that I added to pull some text from my database to overlay on top of it. It works great but the image the text goes on is getting degraded pretty severely once GD spits it back out.

 

Is there some way I can correct this?

 

# ----------------------------------------#
# CREATE THE WEB BADGE AND SERVE AS JPG	  #
# ----------------------------------------#

$text = $trackCount;
$file = 'badge.jpg';
$dim = getimagesize($file);
$imagewidth = $dim[0];
$imageheight = $dim[1];
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($file);
$white = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
$font = 'gnuolane.ttf';

imagettftext($image, 12, 0, 65, 57, $white, $font, $text);

header('Content-type: image/jpeg');

imagejpeg($image);
imagedestroy($image);

 

[schilly]

you could try:

imagejpeg($image,NULL,100);

 

[sintax63]

That did the trick. Thanks so much!