Thanks Kurt. Unfortunately my server only has gd 1.6.2 (gd 1.8.3 required
aparantly) and I can't change that. Never mind.
- seb
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 22 July 2001 00:26
To: 'Seb Frost'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Image color quality problems
Yes, it does, through the use of the GD and freetype libraries. (the
freetype library is required for the imageTTFText function I used below)
www.php.net/imagecreatefromjpeg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seb Frost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 3:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Image color quality problems
>
>
> Not an answer I'm afraid but does PHP has the ability to do
> this with JPEGs? Would be VERY useful to me if it does!
>
> - seb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 21 July 2001 23:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Image color quality problems
>
>
> I have the following code that takes an existing image,
> creates a new one from it and writes some white text on top
> of that image:
>
> <?php
> header("Content-type: image/png");
>
> $startingImage = "leftphoto_01.png";
>
> $image = imageCreateFromPNG($startingImage);
>
> //$white = imageColorAt($image, 30, 215);
>
> $white = imageColorAllocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
>
> imageTTFText($image, 24, 0, 10, 25, $white, "arialbd.ttf",
> "This is a test");
>
> imagePNG($image);
>
> imagedestroy($image);
> ?>
>
> Problem is, the "white" text isn't white -- it's a dingy gray
> color. From reading around, I thought maybe if I took an
> existing white pixel in the image and used that to set white,
> that might help (hence the commented out //$white =
> imageColorAt... line in my code above) That didn't help
> either. (and the pixel I sampled is exactly the shade of
> white I want)
>
> I am almost completely unfamiliar with color pallettes and
> how to manipulate them. Can someone shed some light on how I
> can get some clean, bright white text on my image?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --kurt
>
>
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