title: Intervention Image degrades quality of image on resize
body: <p>Im using <a href="http://image.intervention.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Intervention Image</a> to upload two versions (small and large) of a single image to display on different pages. </p>
  
  <p>The user always uploads the image 1000 x 1000 pixels and the original is used on a single product product page and the smaller version on an 'all products' page.</p>
  
  <p>This works fine except the image that is being downsized has terrible quality. It's pixelated. </p>
  
  <p>I'm using Laravel 4.2. My version of php is 5.5.11. And I'm developing with Xampp on my local host. I've looked at <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21774142/php-gd-intervention-image-quality-is-different-depending-on-the-server">this question</a> and I'm pretty sure GD is installed. </p>
  
  <p>Is it because GD is not as good as imagick? Because I can't for the life of me seem to install that thing...</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: This <em>was</em> the problem! I finally managed to get imagick working and changed it to the driver. Great quality images. </p>
  
  <p>Here's my route, though I don't think this is where the problem is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$file = Input::file('photo');
  $fileName = Input::get('name').'.'.$file-&gt;getClientOriginalExtension();
  $fileName= str_replace(' ', '_', $fileName);
  $destinationPath    = 'productphotos/';
  
  // upload new image
  Image::make($file-&gt;getRealPath())
  // original
  -&gt;save($destinationPath.$fileName)
  // resize
  -&gt;resize(300, 300) // set true if you want proportional image resize
  -&gt;save($destinationPath.'resize'.$fileName, 100);
  
  
  
      $aDetails = Input::all();
      $aDetails["photo"] = $fileName;
      $aDetails["smallphoto"] = 'resize'.$fileName;
      Product::create($aDetails);
  
      return Redirect::to("products/".Input::get("product_id"));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1tOyb.jpg" alt="You can see the difference between the stock test (original size 1000x1000) and testresize(300x300). They are being displayed at 218x218.">
  You can see the difference between the stock test (original size 1000x1000) and testresize(300x300). They are both being displayed at 218x218.</p>