note 101611 deleted from function.imagecopymerge by danbrown

Note Submitter: smalltux at yahoo dot com ---- Sina Salek suggested an excelent (yet simple) workaround for PNG images with alpha channel, but I had to tune it a little bit more (the original code did not work properly for me): function imagecopymerge_alpha($dst_im, $src_im, $dst_x, $dst_y, $src_x, $src_y, $src_w, $src_h, $opacity){ $w = imagesx($src_im); $h = imagesy($src_im); $cut = imagecreatetruecolor($src_w, $src_h); imagecopy($cut, $dst_im, 0, 0, $dst_x, $dst_y, $src_w, $src_h); imagecopy($cut, $src_im, 0, 0, $src_x, $src_y, $src_w, $src_h); imagecopymerge($dst_im, $cut, $dst_x, $dst_y, $src_x, $src_y, $src_w, $src_h, $opacity); imagedestroy($cut); } This worked perfectly. I have a huge collection of movies and a catalogue maintained in PHP/MySQL. I have a poster (jpg/giff/png file) for each movie. I got an idea to create a mosaic poster of all Top#250 IMDB movies consisting of scaled down versions of individual posters. The only problem I had was how to add watermark with an alpha channel. Now, it's solved. (Thanx, Sina!) If you want to take a look, here is the final version of the poster created with PHP only (5500x3200px). Yes, it's that huge: http://www.luka.in.rs/poster.php