How would TIMTHUMB.PHP affect the SEO of a website, or Image SEO

Question

If I use timthumb.php for reducing images and posting them automatically with the appropiate size on my website sounds fantastic. Saves a lot of work.

But would that affect the results in http://images.google.com ? Let's say I have a photo named "my-dalmatian-dog.jpg" and then I apply tinthumb.php..it would be changed to some other name...and I dont know if the search results would be that great.

what would be the result of using this, in terms of SEO ?

Answer 1

You can always rewrite your URLs so that they look like the original. For example, you could make timthumb.php?filename=my-dalmatian-dog.jpg look like /images/thumb/my-dalmatian-dog.jpg using an Apache rewrite rule like this:

RewriteRule ^images/thumb/(.*) timthumb.php?filename=$1