diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 61a3cd7cf..62207ebd8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 2006-04-11  Martin Hawlisch  <Martin.Hawlisch@gmx.de>
 	* src/images/mk_blue_marble.py: Properly exit on error to let `make`
-	stop in that case.
+	stop in that case; Provide fallback if jpegtrans does not work/exist.
 
 2006-04-10  Martin Hawlisch  <Martin.Hawlisch@gmx.de>
 	* src/DataViews/_MapView.py: Reworked to display multiple smaller
diff --git a/src/images/mk_blue_marble.py b/src/images/mk_blue_marble.py
index f8c51bb1c..e93f24289 100644
--- a/src/images/mk_blue_marble.py
+++ b/src/images/mk_blue_marble.py
@@ -29,7 +29,12 @@ def process_file( imagefile, image_width, image_height, map_x, map_y, map_width,
 					(tile_size,tile_size,x*tile_size,y*tile_size,outfile,imagefile)
 				print cmd
 				if os.system( cmd):
-					sys.exit("ERROR, image crop using jpegtran (part of libjpeg-progs) failed.")
+					print("WARNING: lossless crop using jpegtran (part of libjpeg-progs) failed. Trying lossy fallback")
+					cmd = "convert %s -crop %dx%d+%d+%d %s" %\
+						(imagefile,tile_size,tile_size,x*tile_size,y*tile_size,outfile)
+					print cmd
+					if os.system( cmd):
+						sys.exit("ERROR, image crop using jpegtran (part of libjpeg-progs) and imagemagick failed.")
 			else:
 				print "tile %s already exists" % outfile
 			tile_width = map_width/(image_width/tile_size)