Improve your images: Sharpens resized JPG image uploads via ImageMagick so it keeps quality, EXIF information, color profiles and crops.
As of April 2026, ImageMagick Sharpen Resized Images is a WordPress image plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 36K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 10% this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
Tired of having blurry lifeless WordPress images? This plugin sharpens resized JPG image uploads and it works with ImageMagick so it keeps quality, EXIF information and color profiles. It also maintains the crops and other image proportions.
Bonus: It enables you to have automatic contrast leveling too.
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Works well out of the box. I am using it with Shortpixel and Regenerate Thumbnails Advanced, and the thumbnails now look super-clear, yet they are half the size of the original blurry images. This is a must for every product review website.
My photos looks awesome again thanks to this. You should look into the settings being reset, if the plugin was disabled. That’s the only downside I can think of.
Really sharpens image.
Quality is not like into Photoshop, but default setting works pretty fine.
This Plugin is fantastic! Such a shame that the imagick library is so rare in shared hosting. Just installed everything on my XAMPP and your Plugin did a fantastic job. Thanks a bunch for this masterpeace.
Reseting values by reactivating plugin is very, VERY bad idea and I believe it’s against all WordPress values and procedures. But to be honest it’s very good plugin. After this review I have to go figure out all the values again.
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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