Image Question

At the moment, i am plying with the GD functions using Jpegs and the Image
Resample function.
I was wondering if there is a way to add a second image over an existing
image.

I am working on a shopping cart system with thumbnail images and I want to
do one of the following depending on which looks better:

Create a "SOLD OUT" Image over the existing image
Turn the image to a Black and White Picture
Turn the image Black and White and cover the image with a sold out
image/text

Any help or suggestios would be grateful

Craig

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:58:31 +0100, "Craig Keightley" <craig@sitedesign.net>
wrote:

>At the moment, i am plying with the GD functions using Jpegs and the Image
>Resample function.
>I was wondering if there is a way to add a second image over an existing
>image.
>
>I am working on a shopping cart system with thumbnail images and I want to
>do one of the following depending on which looks better:
>
>Create a "SOLD OUT" Image over the existing image

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecopy.php

>Turn the image to a Black and White Picture

If a paletted image, http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecolorset.php ,
using a standard RGB->greyscale conversion function (different weights for each
primary colour - search Google, the formula for the weightings is on hundreds
of sites).

If truecolour, you'll probably have to loop over each pixel and
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagesetpixel.php them accordingly.
(Depending how GD truecolour images work with regards to the allocated colours
- not really worked with them much).

>Turn the image Black and White and cover the image with a sold out
>image/text

Both above.

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"Craig Keightley" <craig@sitedesign.net> wrote in message news:<3f72ae33$0$270$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> ...
> At the moment, i am plying with the GD functions using Jpegs and the Image
> Resample function.
> I was wondering if there is a way to add a second image over an existing
> image.
>
> I am working on a shopping cart system with thumbnail images and I want to
> do one of the following depending on which looks better:
>
> Create a "SOLD OUT" Image over the existing image
> Turn the image to a Black and White Picture
> Turn the image Black and White and cover the image with a sold out
> image/text
>
> Any help or suggestios would be grateful
>
> Craig


I think you need to look at the following.

imagecreate your new image in black and white.

imagecopyresized your thumbnail to this image.

imagecopyresized your 'sold out' image to a portion of your imagecreated image.

Maybe

TOmH