By mileZ on

Hi,

my question is very simple.

How can I increase the image quality of the images used with imagecache?

Thnx,

milez

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mooffie commented

See the 'JPEG quality' setting in 'q=admin/settings/image-toolkit'.

Note that this quality setting determines only the compression level when saving the file. It does not affect the resizing algorithm.

(PNG files have no 'PNG quality' setting, because this format is lossless.)

That's for the GD image toolkit, which is the built-in provided with Drupal. If you're a connoisseur, you may wish to check the ImageMagick image toolkit.

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mileZ commented

Hi mooffie,

thnx for your replay. I used the GD image toolkit but the quality of pics are not good enough ;-)

I checked ImageMagick but how can I install that? Is there a guide I can use?

Thnx,
mileZ

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mooffie commented

Type 'imagemagick' into the search box here. Or into google: ImageMagic is a stand alone program which is not tied to Drupal, so you're probably going to find lot's of installation guides. If you encounter problems, do ask again.) (Perhaps it's already instlaled at your host provider?)

Good luck.

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CHEETAH commented

this discussion might also be useful here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/12521#comment-62818