Thumbnailing and image resizing

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May 8th, 2008, 07:50 PM

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Thumbnailing and image resizing

My friend asked me to help him with image resizing and thumbnailing. I want to ask in general, what is the best way to do this actions? I ask here, because both of us are using PHP.

His site will do many operations in one day(and at the same time, too), so it have to be simple, not CPU loading and fast.

I don't know anything about this issue, so some thoughts will be very helpful.

I was thinking about GD, but I found ImageMagick. It seems that using exec command with ImageMagick's convert utility works well on my local(I optimized resizing command many times talking with experienced users). For the moment I didn't tried APD, so I don't know about speed of command. Moreover, I haven't tried running multiple instances at the same time.

I was wondering how sites like Flickr handle this operations. Does anybody know? Is there other way, how to do this faster?

Has anyone experienced something about this issue? Thanks for any kind of help.

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