Well, not exactly, since it can't allocate the extra 12288 bytes

you sir, are correct

/me hangs head in shame for not adding the 2 numbers

Right, I have gone crazy and upped the php.ini to: memory_limit = 48M, and that seems to have fixed GD2 now, fingers crossed. Many thanks.

Seems I will have to stick with GD2, could never get ImageMagick to work, it did not write the images into the gallery directories for some reason. I could get it to work from the terminal and the paths were definitely correct, does it need any permission changes or anything? All gallery directories were set to cmod 777.

Then I edited the following value on php.ini: upload_max_filesize = 35M (was 2M)

Don't do that.

Ah, OK thanks Gizmo, changed that back now.

By doing that, you'd be giving people some pretty large range to fill your server up :x