diff --git a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/imageprocessor/imageio/IIOImageProcessor.java b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/imageprocessor/imageio/IIOImageProcessor.java
index 5e0ea8ec3..455a3f601 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/imageprocessor/imageio/IIOImageProcessor.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/imageprocessor/imageio/IIOImageProcessor.java
@@ -9,16 +9,20 @@ import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
 import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
+import javax.imageio.IIOImage;
+import javax.imageio.ImageWriter;
+import javax.imageio.ImageWriteParam;
 import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
 import javax.imageio.stream.MemoryCacheImageInputStream;
-import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
-import java.awt.image.AffineTransformOp;
+import javax.imageio.stream.MemoryCacheImageOutputStream;
 import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
+import java.awt.image.BufferedImageOp;
 import java.awt.image.ColorConvertOp;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import com.twelvemonkeys.image.ResampleOp;
 
 /**
  * Crop the main image as specified, and scale it to the correct size for a
@@ -147,10 +151,10 @@ public class IIOImageProcessor implements ImageProcessor {
 	}
 
 	private BufferedImage scaleImage(BufferedImage image, float scaleFactor) {
-		AffineTransform transform = AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(
-				scaleFactor, scaleFactor);
-		AffineTransformOp atoOp = new AffineTransformOp(transform, null);
-		return atoOp.filter(image, null);
+		int newX = (int) (image.getWidth() * scaleFactor);
+		int newY = (int) (image.getHeight() * scaleFactor);
+		BufferedImageOp resampler = new ResampleOp(newX, newY, ResampleOp.FILTER_LANCZOS);
+		return resampler.filter(image, null);
 	}
 
 	private CropRectangle adjustCropRectangleToScaledImage(CropRectangle crop,
@@ -167,8 +171,14 @@ public class IIOImageProcessor implements ImageProcessor {
 	}
 
 	private byte[] encodeAsJpeg(BufferedImage image) throws IOException {
-		ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-		ImageIO.write(image, "JPG", bytes);
+		ImageWriter writer = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("jpeg").next();
+		ImageWriteParam param = writer.getDefaultWriteParam();
+		param.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT); 
+		param.setCompressionQuality(0.8f); 
+		ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); 
+		writer.setOutput(new MemoryCacheImageOutputStream(bytes)); 
+		writer.write(null, new IIOImage(image,null,null),param);
+		writer.dispose();
 		return bytes.toByteArray();
 	}
 }