RE: [PHP] Image color quality problems

Thanks Kurt. Unfortunately my server only has gd 1.6.2 (gd 1.8.3 required aparantly) and I can't change that. Never mind. - seb -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:php@internalcombustion.com] Sent: 22 July 2001 00:26 To: 'Seb Frost'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Image color quality problems Yes, it does, through the use of the GD and freetype libraries. (the freetype library is required for the imageTTFText function I used below) www.php.net/imagecreatefromjpeg > -----Original Message----- > From: Seb Frost [mailto:seb@raceshoot.com] > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 3:59 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Image color quality problems > > > Not an answer I'm afraid but does PHP has the ability to do > this with JPEGs? Would be VERY useful to me if it does! > > - seb > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:kurt@lieber.org] > Sent: 21 July 2001 23:27 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Image color quality problems > > > I have the following code that takes an existing image, > creates a new one from it and writes some white text on top > of that image: > > <?php > header("Content-type: image/png"); > > $startingImage = "leftphoto_01.png"; > > $image = imageCreateFromPNG($startingImage); > > //$white = imageColorAt($image, 30, 215); > > $white = imageColorAllocate($image, 255, 255, 255); > > imageTTFText($image, 24, 0, 10, 25, $white, "arialbd.ttf", > "This is a test"); > > imagePNG($image); > > imagedestroy($image); > ?> > > Problem is, the "white" text isn't white -- it's a dingy gray > color. From reading around, I thought maybe if I took an > existing white pixel in the image and used that to set white, > that might help (hence the commented out //$white = > imageColorAt... line in my code above) That didn't help > either. (and the pixel I sampled is exactly the shade of > white I want) > > I am almost completely unfamiliar with color pallettes and > how to manipulate them. Can someone shed some light on how I > can get some clean, bright white text on my image? > > Thanks. > > --kurt > > > -- > 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 > > -- 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