# Easiest possible image manip/rmagick alternatives?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-possible-image-manip-rmagick-alternatives/131018>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 5, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-possible-image-manip-rmagick-alternatives/131018 "2008-03-05T08:06:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![nefigah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@nefigah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nefigah)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-possible-image-manip-rmagick-alternatives/131018/1 "2008-03-05T08:06:30Z")

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Hiya,

I need to make thumbnail versions of images. I’ve never worked with  
images programmatically before. My hunch would be to go with rmagick,  
but it seems to require quite a few dependencies, so I was curious if  
there was something simple that would do image resizing with minimal  
installation fuss.

Any help appreciated!

Thanks,  
J

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**Author:** ![nefigah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@nefigah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nefigah)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-possible-image-manip-rmagick-alternatives/131018/2 "2008-03-05T08:29:45Z")

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Hi,

ImageScience  
[http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html)

–  
Shu Cho

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**Author:** ![nefigah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@nefigah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nefigah)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-possible-image-manip-rmagick-alternatives/131018/3 "2008-03-05T08:50:18Z")

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Shu Cho wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> ImageScience  
> [http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html)
> 
> –  
> Shu Cho

Beautiful! My hero 🙂