[RESOLVED] binding two images

BIOSTALL

Hey... i have a photo that a user has uploaded.. Now, when its displayed on one of my pages i want one of my own images to be placed on top of the users photo in the bottom left hand corner.

If another user then goes to save the photo, the saved photo will contain both images. Is there anyway to do this??

An example can be found here: http://vampirefreaks.com/profile.php?user=under_these_tears Can you see how the bit saying: 'VampireFreaks.com' has been added to the original image??

Any help with this would be appreciated 🙂 Many Thanks, BIOSTALL

_RL_Ian

BIOSTALL wrote:
Hey... i have a photo that a user has uploaded.. Now, when its displayed on one of my pages i want one of my own images to be placed on top of the users photo in the bottom left hand corner.

If another user then goes to save the photo, the saved photo will contain both images. Is there anyway to do this??

An example can be found here: http://vampirefreaks.com/profile.php?user=under_these_tears Can you see how the bit saying: 'VampireFreaks.com' has been added to the original image??

Any help with this would be appreciated 🙂 Many Thanks, BIOSTALL

What you are trying to do is called "watermarking". It is an overlay of one image over another.

The process is relatively simple if you use GD library (bulit in with PHP).

Try this article for some assistance: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/watermark-images-php

BIOSTALL

Cheers (RL)Ian 🙂 That article was very helpful

BIOSTALL

Well.. i used the code the site, changed what was necessary and i'm getting this output:

ÿØÿàJFIFÿþ>CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), default quality ÿÛC $.' ",#(7),01444'9=82<.342ÿÛC 2!!...

This goes for about another 100 lines, lol. Heres what i'm using:

$getlocation = mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT image_location FROM Galleries WHERE image_id='$imageid'",$connection),0);

header('content-type: image/jpeg');

	$watermark = imagecreatefrompng('Watermark.png');  
	$watermark_width = imagesx($watermark);  
	$watermark_height = imagesy($watermark);  
	$image = imagecreatetruecolor($watermark_width, $watermark_height);  
	$image = imagecreatefromjpeg('Photos/'.$getlocation.'');  
	$size = getimagesize('Photos/'.$getlocation.'');
	$dest_x = $size[0] - $watermark_width - 5;  
	$dest_y = $size[1] - $watermark_height - 5;  
	imagecopymerge($image, $watermark, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $watermark_width, $watermark_height, 100);
imagejpeg($image);  

		imagedestroy($image);  

		imagedestroy($watermark);

Anyone know why it outputing this gibberish please?? Cheers, BIOSTALL

acidbox

What version of PHP are you running?