Title: Disabling image crunching???
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Disabling image crunching???

 *  [peter_100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter_100/)
 * (@peter_100)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-image-crunching/)
 * Dear all,
    after several attempts and searches here and on the entire web, I 
   am starting this post: Being a photographer, I want to switch OFF wp’s (3.4.2)
   feature to process jpgs after upload, as I am doing this a lot more efficient
   myself. I started worrying about that in particular, when wp started giving me
   memory allocation error codes “out of memory…media.php on line 258” when uploading
   larger images (above 250kb jpgs). Even working around the standard media uploader
   with the “add from server”-plugin, I still receive that error (cause wp is still
   crunching?!), so I simply need to switch that compression feature off completely,
   I guess.
 * Any ideas?
 * Thank you.

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 *  [Phil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/owendevelopment/)
 * (@owendevelopment)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-image-crunching/#post-3061822)
 * Have you tried improving image quality of resized images via the functions.php
   file (BACKUP this file before trying):
 *     ```
       function ajx_sharpen_resized_files( $resized_file ) {
   
           $image = wp_load_image( $resized_file );
           if ( !is_resource( $image ) )
               return new WP_Error( 'error_loading_image', $image, $file );
   
           $size = @getimagesize( $resized_file );
           if ( !$size )
               return new WP_Error('invalid_image', __('Could not read image size'), $file);
           list($orig_w, $orig_h, $orig_type) = $size;
   
           switch ( $orig_type ) {
               case IMAGETYPE_JPEG:
                   $matrix = array(
                       array(-1, -1, -1),
                       array(-1, 16, -1),
                       array(-1, -1, -1),
                   );
   
                   $divisor = array_sum(array_map('array_sum', $matrix));
                   $offset = 0;
                   imageconvolution($image, $matrix, $divisor, $offset);
                   imagejpeg($image, $resized_file,apply_filters( 'jpeg_quality', 90, 'edit_image' ));
                   break;
               case IMAGETYPE_PNG:
                   return $resized_file;
               case IMAGETYPE_GIF:
                   return $resized_file;
           }
   
           return $resized_file;
       }   
   
       add_filter('image_make_intermediate_size', 'ajx_sharpen_resized_files',900);
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [peter_100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter_100/)
 * (@peter_100)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-image-crunching/#post-3061824)
 * Hi Phil,
    thank you, your suggestion won’t solve my initial problem of good image
   quality (200-300 kb jpgs 1200×1600 or so sized sharpened to the point in photoshop…)
   that cause the WP crunching process to run out of memory. I am trying to get 
   rid of all the automatism instead but cannot find where to switch it off.
 *  [Phil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/owendevelopment/)
 * (@owendevelopment)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-image-crunching/#post-3061826)
 * Have you tried increasing PHP memory limit in your server? Check your php.ini
   file to see what it is set as and try increasing it to 256M or 512M. I’ve had
   issues before when it was set at 32M by default. Rather than modifying WordPress
   core files (which will only reappear when you update WP), try tackling this from
   the other way.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-image-crunching/#post-3061829)
 * 32M is the absolute minimum for a WP 3.4.2 site. and then only if you have zero
   plugins, run something like Twenty Eleven and don’t upload larger images (eg 
   over about 100k). Ideally you should have at least 64M memory.
 *  Thread Starter [peter_100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter_100/)
 * (@peter_100)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-image-crunching/#post-3061848)
 * looks like that is my issue 🙁
 * Thanks Esmi
 *  [Phil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/owendevelopment/)
 * (@owendevelopment)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-image-crunching/#post-3061849)
 * ?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-image-crunching/#post-3061851)
 * I think it was Phil that first suggested that it could be a memory issue. I just
   had some hard numbers that I thought might help 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-image-crunching/#post-3061851)
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