I was literally scanning my entire PC yesterday for an alternative. timThumb reminded me of an alternative that a Wordpress theme I have, uses. It's basically SO much more feature rich, easier to use/install, configure, etc. And I found it earlier today. Have a look:
http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/

Yep, can work with remote, local, or database images. Can watermark your thumbnails. And of course, a huge array of all sorts of filters. Have a look.

I'll see if I can modify timthumb to support remote images. Though am not so confident, but hey, I'll give it a shot anyway.
Lifetalk Reviewed by Lifetalk on . timthumb problem Hey, I had this scrip from sometime now in the first skin, but it didn't work on the second so i had to get another, but This one is killing my site! When I add a JPG image it resizes it and convert it to .PNG which is much larger and heavier, could somebody please make it keep the images as they are? jpg to jpg, png to png...etc? Thanks a lot! <?php /* Rating: 5