Magento's image helper is bloated and the performance impact is quite significant. Some of the complexity can also be removed because the gain is not that significant (example: the hash part of the image url). I would like to be able to use a replacement with the following features: - lightweight - support for gd and imagemagick - has nicer image paths Optional: - use a queueing system for the resize job If others are interested we can spec this out further. Update by Admin: https://github.com/magento-hackathon/Perfect_Watermarks https://github.com/monsieurbiz/Mbiz_ImageCrop