Image resize issue in PHP - gd creates ugly resized images

Question

I am creating thumbnails of fixed height and width from my PHP script using the following function

/*creates thumbnail of required dimensions*/
function crea         


        

Answer 1

You could also consider using ImageMagick (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.imagick.php) instead of Gd. I had the same problem just a couple of days ago with Java. Going for ImageMagick instead of Java Advanced Images resultet in a huge quality difference.