The past week or so I've been going back to all the old scripts I've coded and tried to make improvements on them. I have an image gallery which originall uploaded and thumbnailed any image to 100x100 and used this in the preview for the gallery.

Because of the number of servers that have ImageMagick installed is slim, I've taken this out for the time being and doing a fake thumbnail using HTML at 100x100. (bad idea I know, but atleast people can actually import the script on their server now).

Question is, how can I calculate proportions of images so they're not all resized the same and have some get really blurred if it's a small image? All the other galleries have thumbnails of different sizes, not a preset 100x100. I need a method of resizing the thumbnails so the size doesn't distort them too much.

I'm using ImageInfo to display the image dimensions and will use HTML to create the fake thumbnails (or possibly go back to ImageMagick) if it's a must.

Thanks for your help everyone.



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sulfericacid

In reply to Proportionally resizing of images by sulfericacid

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