Improve your images: Sharpens resized JPG image uploads via ImageMagick so it keeps quality, EXIF information, color profiles and crops.
Tired of having blurry lifeless WordPress images? This plugin sharpens resized JPG image uploads and it works with ImageMagick so it keeps quality, EXIF information and color profiles. It also maintains the crops and other image proportions.
Bonus: It enables you to have automatic contrast leveling too.
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imagick-sharpen-resized-images.php
to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory.Check https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins for more detailed installation instructions.
imagick-sharpen-resized-images.php
to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory.Check https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins for more detailed installation instructions.
Your host needs to have the imagick PHP module installed (and, of course, the ImageMagick program itself).
The imagick PHP module is NOT a WordPress plugin, but a module for PHP. The plugin has a built-in check for this imagick PHP module.
If you don’t have the imagick PHP module installed you can still sharpen your images by using the Sharpen Resized Images plugin. It sharpens the images by using lower quality GD, so it strips EXIF data and it strips color profiles.
I defined the for me optimal amount of sharpening. You can change it though by going in your WordPress Admin Settings to the IM Sharpen Images entry. The default settings are fine though (Radius 0, Sigma 0.5, Amount 1, Threshold 0). I defaulted the threshold to 0 because personally I want to retain fine skin details in my photos. You can change it to 0.05 for noisy images if it sharpens noise too much.
Just deactivate the plugin and (re)activate it. This will restore the default values.