GD creates bloated pngs.
 

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.

I assume that at the end of the script you use:
This function has a quality parameter, which is set on a scale of 0-9, so I guess just make this quality lower. If that doesn't work, just generate a jpeg with:
or
See also: imagepng
imagegif
imagewbmp
imagejpeg

Thanks a load, I was under the assumption you couldn't use imagegif for png images but I was wrong, thats for solving my issue so quickly and simply!

No problem!