GD Libarary Question

I've looked up several documents online to try and figure this out. So far
I've seen that with the GD library I can use a background image and modify
it by adding text and shapes.

What I would like to do though is create an image from a background image
then bring in other smaller images and place them overtop in different
locations. In essence I want to create an image from 2 or more already
created images.

Is that possible?

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:32:09 -0400, Smiley wrote:

>I've looked up several documents online to try and figure this out. So far
>I've seen that with the GD library I can use a background image and modify
>it by adding text and shapes.
>
>What I would like to do though is create an image from a background image
>then bring in other smaller images and place them overtop in different
>locations. In essence I want to create an image from 2 or more already
>created images.
>
>Is that possible?

Do you need to create a composite image? Can't you do it with just CSS
positioning? If you need *transparency* then you may need to use .png
format.

Adam.

You should look at the imagecopy() function. From what you said, you
should be able to use that. I used it before for a client that wanted
to make one of them smiley face gens.

- Nick

Adam wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:32:09 -0400, Smiley wrote:
>
> >I've looked up several documents online to try and figure this out. So far
> >I've seen that with the GD library I can use a background image and modify
> >it by adding text and shapes.
> >
> >What I would like to do though is create an image from a background image
> >then bring in other smaller images and place them overtop in different
> >locations. In essence I want to create an image from 2 or more already
> >created images.
> >
> >Is that possible?
>
> Do you need to create a composite image? Can't you do it with just CSS
> positioning? If you need *transparency* then you may need to use .png
> format.
>
> Adam.