Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Looking here I can see that FILTER_CUBIC always results in a blurry output.
http://urmaul.com/blog/imagick-filters-comparison/
And changing the fourth parameter (blur factor) of resizeImage doesn't affect results in any way for me.
Anyways, I just used FILTER_UNDEFINED and this solved my problem.

I'm not an expert at filters etc. Why are you using "-filter cubic"? I conclude that your v7 version (or, more likely, IMagick) is respecting "-filter cubic", so you get the mushy result. Your v6 version ignores "-filter cubic" and uses the default filter, with the better result. I suggest you omit ...

My hosting provider decided to update software on their servers, and this had side-effects for me :( They updated Imagick and\or ImageMagick and now, the function "resizeImage()", which used to work perfectly, returns a blurry result on downscale. I still have accounts on same hosting that is on old ...