Intervention Image VS imageflow

If still not confident you can still with other packages for images, such intervention https://github.com/Intervention/image

Not sure of any package that handles that specific use case perse. But if you're thinking of showing a preview, and don't want to load the original file, take a look at an image handling library like intervention

Apple released a new image format called HEIC/HEIF, and it broke many apps that handle image processing. The PHP library Intervention Image caught up to it and added support for the new image format, but somehow, it isn't working at the time of this writing. So we had to come up with a solution.

Glide is actually built on top of Intervention so I'd start looking there. If Intervention has what you need but Glide doesn't, you can probably write your own custom manipulation.

The Intervention Image package is incredibly powerful, however it hasn't been updated since early November 2020 and has open PRs for PHP 8 support for several months, with no response from any collaborators.

If you use Composer I suggest this package: https://image.intervention.io/, it has a sleek API for cropping and resizing.

Intervention Image is a PHP image handling and manipulation library providing an easier and expressive way to create, edit, and compose images. The package includes ServiceProviders and Facades for easy Laravel integration.

Storage is via your chosen database of choice, this system is designed to compute the images at time of upload and then store them rather than at client request (because that can lead to significantly higher load at large throughputs and increase latency) I might consider adding other storage backends like a standard file system backend but probably not till other things are done. If you want custom resizing at clients request it might be worth looking at https://github.com/imazen/imageflow which does the sizing / manipulations at request time rather than ahead of time.