Dramatically improve the quality of re-sized images by making WordPress use ImageMagick instead of GD image library..
Note that the new images tend to be larger than those of GD library, especially if you specify quality ...
If you have the PHP module installed the plugin will find it.
If you have shell access to Linux UNIX server you can use which convert to look for the ImageMagick executable...
You might have to add the following line to your.htaccess file.
I'm using it mainly to speed up thumbnail creation and preserve the quality of all image sizes generated by WordPress before they're sent to optimizer like TinyJPG or Imagify..
As of version 1.5.2, the plugin needs to minor hacks to work well 1.
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
Upgrade jQuery UI Progressbar to version 1.8.9, to match version of UI Core WordPress. 1.2.2.
Rewrite image cropping for Imagick PHP module to make sure we keep image profiles.
Read more