Do I Need Image Magick?

[matthewamzn]

I have a forum where users upload a lot of pictures. Currenty pictures are being resized down to 800 pixels wide. This works as long as users don't try to upload images larger than about 2500 pixels wide.

My forum provider suggested installing image magick to take care of these very large images, 2500+ pixels wide.

Do I really need image magick or can I adjust php settings somehow? If php can resize a 2500 pixel wide image.... why can't it resize 3000?

[coopster]

What is happening? Are you getting any errors?