Orangelab has released ImageMagick Engine, a plugin that replaces the standard GD image library used in WordPress with ImageMagick. The plugin will preserve the embedded color profile of images after resizing, resulting in a more accurate and higher quality image.
Other features of the plugin include:
- Automatic recognition of custom image sizes
- Regeneration of existing images
- Configuration of image quality or use of dynamically computed default value
The plugin is available for download from the WordPress plugin directory.
Thanks! This helped me so much. I’m a photographer, and I needed better quality thumbnails and resized images.
Works like a charm. Quite useful for photography and e-commerce wordpress sites.
This looks like just what I need! I have been SO FRUSTRATED by my painstakingly-polished pics getting dumbed down by my themeforest shopping cart software!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May I ask when it was released and how much ImageMagick’s been tested? I am a web retailer and clothing designer, not a techie; I have heard that some plugins can wreak havoc on a website.
If we use it I will absolutely support the project. Thanks a lot!
You might want to update the post to note that as of 3.5 WP automatically uses ImageMagick when it is available (http://www.semioticpixels.com/wordpress/wordpress-3-5-prefers-imagemagick/)