title: Image file size differences between Imagemagick and GD library
body: <p>I have been doing some tests and found out that Imagemagick creates larger file sized images compared to GD library.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried using thumbnailImage method and also resizeImage method (with different filters) of Imagemagick for creating an image of max dimension 1024x680 jpeg with JPEG compression and quality 80 and at 72 pixels per inch resolution and am also using stripImage method to remove unneeded meta data. The file size created by Imagemagick is always in the range of 700KB to 800KB depending upon various filters. On the other hand GD library produces an image of size 1024x680 which is only 41KB in size.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone please explain the difference in file sizes. I opened up the 2 files in Photo shop and checked to see any differences but could not find any (DPI, color profile, 8 bit channel etc), but still cant explain the difference in file sizes.</p>