Hi, You can resize the image by mentioning the image quality . I think this may work in your case convert -resize 51x37 -quality 100% sanal.jpg san.JPEG http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-graf/ <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-graf/>Refer this link for details.. 2010/3/18 sanalkumar mr <sanalmadatheth@xxxxxxxxx> > > Dear all......I' ve to convert a passport size photo to stamp size. I tried > $ convert -resize 51x37 sanal.jpg san.JPEG > giving a low quality image.Any option to get a good quality image...? > And the properties of the input image is given below > $ identify sanal.jpg > sanal.jpg JPEG 260x300 260x300+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 35.0488kb > I also tried GIMP that also was in vain.Thanks in advance....Sanalkumar > -- > പറയാതെ പരിഭവം നീയൊന്നു മുടി കോതി- > ക്കഴിയുമ്പൊഴായുസ്സു തീരും > പറയാതെ പരിഭവം ഞാനൊന്നു നെടുവീര്പ്പിട്ടു- > കഴിയുമ്പോള് ലോകവും തീരും.......... > -- Sharafudheen VK OnMobile Global Ltd. GNU/Linux user #500521 Registered at http://counter.li.org.