Quality of resized images – imagemagick?

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    idc101 · Member ·

    The images on blog don’t look very good when they are resized by WordPress. From research on the web I understand that this is due to the use of the GD image library and that ImageMagick would give much better results.

    So
    Is there anyway I can get WordPress.com to use ImageMagick or any other way to get it to resize images with higher quality?

    Or should I consider moving to a self hosted blog where I can change the plugins?

    (I realize I could resize the images in photoshop and then insert at full size, but this isn’t really what I want to do)

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  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    Being a photographer, I know that image appearance is both very important AND very subjective. So while I myself haven’t seen any significant degradation in my images by WordPress.com, you may very well feel differently and I wouldn’t argue with you about it.

    I’d love to see a specific example though, even if just to rule out any weirdness or glitches.

    But the short answer is that if you would like to use a different resize engine, you will have to move to a self-hosted WordPress site. Or, as you mention, move resizing to your pre-upload workflow. There are other options aside from manually doing it in Photoshop. And even in Photoshop, using “actions” to automate things like resizing can speed up cumbersome tasks considerably.

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