hey all, i was just wondering if any of you have found a good way to resample a image on the fly to a smaller size (ie quality not dimensions). basically i have a site where users upload pictures, but alot of them upload pictures that are 500k+ which is just rediculous. any ideas?

jo

thanks for the reply stephan, i have done a bit of homework on this:

- with php, there is a function copyimageresampled() which is can handle the scaling down of images by lowering the quality, the problem with this is, it requires gd 2.0.1 which is only out in beta version i believe. gd 1.8.4 which pretty much every one else runs seems to be incapable of doing it

- the other method i was thinking is imagemagick, and i could do it through either perl or php, or even through running a shell command if possible, i just wasnt sure if imagemagick was installed

basically i was wondering if anyone else had overcome this problem on LP before..

 

While I'm on the subject,

I have a script which does it on my webpage, without imagemagick, unfortunately, I don't know where I got it!

However, it is possible! I am on saturn.lunarpages.com and used to be on neptune.lunarpages.com and had no problems there either.