# What's the easiest way to resize an image on Dreamhost? Whic

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**Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 5:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-easiest-way-to-resize-an-image-on-dreamhost-whic/108314/1 "2007-07-02T05:54:46Z")

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Hi,

What’s the easiest way to resize an image on Dreamhost? Which image  
software? (i.e. ideally one that is already installed on the DH  
servers).

For example, which of the image tool options mentioned in this article  
would  
DH RoR developers recommend? (I’m a unix novice note) -  
[http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu](http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu) . Extract  
below:

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## ImageScience [http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html): A light inline-Ruby library that _only_ resizes images. (Wraps the FreeImage library.)

## RMagick [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/): The grand-daddy, both in terms of advanced image processing features and memory usage. (Wraps the ImageMagick library.)

minimagick [http://rubyforge.org/projects/mini-magick/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mini-magick/): It’s much  
easier on memory than RMagick because it runs the ImageMagick command  
in a  
shell.

Thanks