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I'm not sure what you mean by "blurry / shitty", but I've used ImageMagick for a number of projects and the thumbs seem to turn out file.

What I first did is figure out if the image is landscape or portrait, then resize the image. After I resize it, I then crop it to a thumbnail.

I apologize for the random PHP code below, but it's what I've been using for ImageMagick with PHP to batch images, for example:

Code:

    //-- original image 

    list($width,$height,$type,$attr) = getimagesize($curLgFile);



    //-- thumbnail sizes

    $mdW = '285'; // medium width

    $mdH = '244'; // medium height



            // figure out aspect

            if($width > $height) // landscape

            {

               $width = $width * ($mdH / $height);

               $height = $mdW;

            }

            else

            {

                $height = $height * ($mdW / $width);

                $width = $mdW;

            }



            // convert the LARGE image into smaller in the MEDIUM directory

            $bcmd = $imagemagick_path.'convert -resize '.ceil($width).'x'.ceil($height).' '

                   .$curLgFile.' '.$newMdFile;

             system($bcmd,$output);



            // then crop the medium to what we want

            $bcmd = $imagemagick_path.'convert -crop '.$mdW.'x'.$mdH.'+0+0 '

                   .$newMdFile.' '.$newMdFile;

            system($bcmd,$output);

I'm sure there's always a better way, but the above is just an example.