Basically after using GD to resize and crop images I'm getting massive (and I mean massive) file sizes:

this image: http://www.wastemylunch.com/thumbnai...144752_big.png is 256x80 px and it's 64kb.

This is without compression, with it I get 40kb which is still crazy.

This is all using imagecreatetruecolor

when i use only imagecreate I get small but icky files.

any suggestions?

thanks!


Also, if anyone knows if the pngs could just been transformed (and saved) as gifs that are smaller that would be great.