Manual:$wgUseImageMagick

Details
Resizing can be done using PHP's internal image libraries, or using ImageMagick or another third-party converter, e.g. GraphicMagick.

These latter converters support more file formats than PHP, which only supports PNG, GIF, JPG, XBM and WBMP.

Set   to true to use ImageMagick instead of the builtin functions.

For more information on how to set up ImageMagick, see 1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Installing third-party tools#Image thumbnailing|Manual:Installing third-party tools#Image thumbnailing.

Related settings
You may also need to set   to be able to use ImageMagick, although this is sometimes done automatically by the installer.

To fine-tune the output of ImageMagick, set   and  .

  sets YUV chroma subsampling mode for JPEG thumbnails to reduce file size.

Some old MediaWiki installations may have   set to false.

ImageMagick requires that this setting be set to true, or else it will not work.