Re: [PHP] imagecreate() question

2007-04-02 Thread Edward Vermillion
Did you try making it transparent first, before adding the circle? Only a question because I'm not sure if it will make a difference. I know I had problems trying to get the alpha blending to actually look decent in png's (ended up looking like a very poor gif with a non- antialiased mask)

Re: [PHP] imagecreate() question

2007-04-02 Thread tedd
At 4:27 PM +0100 4/2/07, Richard Davey wrote: tedd wrote: In the php manual it says: imagecreate() returns an image identifier representing a blank image of specified size. We recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor(). Q: Why the recommendation? Because the need to create 256 colour (or

Re: [PHP] imagecreate() question

2007-04-02 Thread Richard Davey
tedd wrote: In the php manual it says: imagecreate() returns an image identifier representing a blank image of specified size. We recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor(). Q: Why the recommendation? Because the need to create 256 colour (or less) images grows less year by year. If you

[PHP] imagecreate() question

2007-04-02 Thread tedd
Hi gang: A couple of image questions: In the php manual it says: imagecreate() returns an image identifier representing a blank image of specified size. We recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor(). Q: Why the recommendation? imagecreate() returns a "blank" page whereas imagecreatetruecol