Re: How to add a new color to JPEG

has this problem check the annoted manual on php.net. i believe there is a work arround posted on imagecolorallocate() and i reposted the same thing under imagecreatefromjpeg. basically you create and image, allocate colors, and then copy your jpeg on it. Thank You, Jon Yaggie www.design-monster.com And they were singing . . . '100 little bugs in the code 100 bugs in the code fix one bug, compile it again 101 little bugs in the code 101 little bugs in the code . . .' And it continued until they reached 0 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Loff" <matt@willetts.com> To: "'Jennifer'" <toxlists@canada.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:01 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] How to add a new color to JPEG > > I don't know a way around the problem you're describing with your > version of PHP, but PHP 4.0.6 with GD 2.0.1 allows you to call > ImageCreateTrueColor(), which eliminates the 256-color limitation with > JPEG files-- solved my problem right away. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jennifer [mailto:toxlists@canada.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 5:55 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] How to add a new color to JPEG > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: SED [mailto:sed@sed.is] > > > > According to the manual, you can only get closest value of your > > > > desired color by letting the ImageColorClosest() find it. > > > > Therefore, if the image is totally black, you can not get the > > > > yellow color. I have not found a way to do this though I believe I > > > > > have tried everything. And yet, I have not found any documents > > > > covering this other than PHP-manual. > > I didn't get this from reading the manual, but I struggled with this > problem for days and finally gave up. I posted to some other forums > when this one was done and found no answers. > > Now, I know it isn't just me and I know what the problem is, but I still > don't know a solution. > > I am creating an image on the fly and I have no problem if I am just > using a background color and adding text to it or if I use > ImageCreateFromPNG, but if I use ImageCreateFromJPEG and try to add text > on top of that or even a rectangle or anything on top, it seems to > ignore the color that I specify and always came out grey. (Of course now > if I use ImageColorClosest(), some colors work because they are in my > image.) > > It doesn't matter what I output it as, only what I read it in as. > > And if I read it in as a png, the image quality is horrible which I also > don't understand. It seems to have drastically reduced the number of > colors used. > > My phphinfo says GD version 1.6.2 or higher I'm using PHP Version > 4.0.1pl2 > > Here is my test page. > http://216.122.251.174/test/test.php > > Here is the source for the graphic > http://216.122.251.174/test/button.phps > > Any idea on how solutions? > > Jennifer > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To > contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net