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

tried using the php.Thumbnailer ?

$thumb=new Thumbnailer("photo.jpg");
$thumb->thumbSquare(48)->save("thumb.jpg");

Result photo will be 48x48px. Easy right? :)