Grainy images using GD?

[7724]

Hi,

I've got a script that uses GD to take a pdf and resize and resample it to a .jpg;

<?php
$result1=exec("convert test.pdf[0] test.jpg"); 
$file="test.jpg"; 
$size = GetImageSize ("$file"); 
$height=350; 
$width=floor($size[0]/($size[1]/$height)); 
$im = ImageCreateFromJPEG ($file); 
$im2= ImageCreate ($width, $height); 
$width2=$size[0]; 
$height2=$size[1]; 
imagecopyresized ($im2, $im, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width2, $height2); 
$file3=substr("$file", 0,-4)."_small.jpg"; 
imagejpeg ($im2, $file3, 100); 
unlink ($file); 
$newsize=GetImageSize ($file3);
?>

Thing is though the images appear very grainy when they are converted. I've tried imagecopyresampled on this line:

imagecopyresampled ($im2, $im, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width2, $height2); 

But that still makes the image appear grainy as well?

Can anone help?

[AnthonySterling]

What does your image created directly after the PDF conversion look like? Is it suitable?

[Boxer]

I don't think the graininess is connected to PDF. I resampled regular JPG images and the thumnails were grainy, too. It's something with the GD library. It must have some configs we don't know about.

[TomB]

I've found that imagecopyresampled produces much better images than imagecopyresized but you've tried that so i dont really know.

[Boxer]

GD documentation tells that GD resamples the big image only if the small image is created in TrueColor (using the function ImageCreateTrueColor).

[lampcms.com]

Replace this line
$im2= ImageCreate ($width, $height);
with this:
$im2= imagecreatetruecolor ($width, $height);

This is especially important when original image is jpeg since jpegs are almost always truecolor images.


And use imagecopyresampled()
This will (most likely) improve the results and solve the problem with grainy images

[7724]

Worked a treat - thanks!