Glide VS Intervention Image

We use https://glide.thephpleague.com/. It's dead easy to crop and resize with it too.

Best library for image manipulation is https://glide.thephpleague.com/

A solution for self hosted in PHP is Glide: https://glide.thephpleague.com

You should check out Glide. It provides an easy to use RESTful API for dynamically transforming images on the fly, handles caching them in Flysystem automatically, is easy to integrate in most modern frameworks, and allows you to secure the endpoint via signed URLs, presets and maximum sizes.

This is some pretty powerful stuff. Here's a more information-dense and up-to-date rundown of srcset and sizes: https://bitsofco.de/the-srcset-and-sizes-attributes/

Notably, it shows how it's possible to use different images based on a portrait or landscape layout of the viewport, which OP doesn't cover. That's not always useful but it's good to know it's there when you might want to use it.

I was recently (well, several months ago) tasked with improving the Google PageSpeed scores on mobile for a site which has a lot of image-heavy pages. The end solution involved adapting all images to use a image with a WebP alternative for browsers that can show it (Google's tools like it when you use their near-proprietary image format; go figure), plus using srcset and sizes (which can be used on tags inside of tags as well as tags) plus a script which resizes and caches resized versions of large images based on URL parameters (basically an ersatz Glide [0]; I wish I had known it existed when I started). The end result severely reduced page weight for mobile visitors and was successful in raising our PageSpeed scores and appeasing my client.

[0]: https://glide.thephpleague.com

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.