Smart anti-aliasing

Hi: I know how to create a watermark by simply imposing one image on another via imagecopy() or imagecopymerge(). However, is there a way to place a watermark on a image such that the watermark is actually anti-aliased against the background of the base image? For example, please review: http://xn--ovg.com/watermark2 The centered watermark is clearly problematic because it was originally generated with anti-aliasing ON over a white background -- and thus white pixels are shown mixed throughout. I could turn off the original anti-aliasing in generating the original watermark, but then I get a jagged watermark that looks just about as bad. So, what I am asking is there a way to place text on an existing image such that the anti-aliasing adjust (i.e., smart) to the background of the image? One of the possible solutions I was thinking was to create an image and then draw text on top of it, via something like this: <?php Header ("Content-type: image/gif"); $im = imagecreate (150, 150); $background = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 238, 238, 238); $text_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 00, 51, 102); ImageTTFText ($im, 20, 45, 30, 130, $text_color, "arial.ttf","copyright 2006"); ImageGif ($im); ImageDestroy ($im); ?> But, it's not an image that's imported and the background in only one color. So, is there a way to load an image and then draw smart anti-aliased text on top of it? Many thanks to all who reply. tedd -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://sperling.com/