Using PNG-24 in PHP GD

unknown365

Hi Everyone!
I want to use PNG-24 in GD so that I would get a better image quality.
My problem is that whenever I use PNG-24, the image that i try to call using "imagecreatefrompng" becomes a different image. Also, the image that I use has a transparent background but whenever I use the PNG-24 image, the background becomes white.

However in using a PNG-8 image, I don't encounter these two problems.

Below are the images that I used
PNG-8 (the original look of the image)

PNG-24

As can be seen above, the PNG-24 is totally different from the PNG-8. Please help!
Btw I am currently using PHP 5.

Kudose

Please post your code.

Also, check into Alpha blending for transparency.

The comments on http://us.php.net/imagecreatefrompng are very useful.

unknown365

This is the code that I used:

$background = imagecreatetruecolor(76,84);

$image = imagecreatefrompng("bronze/1-plateborder.png");
$width_x = imagesx($image);
$height_y = imagesy($image);
imagecopymerge($background,$image,0,0,0,0,$width_x,$height_y,100);
imagedestroy($image);

imagepng($background);
imagedestroy($background);

Thank you for trying to help me. I really appreciate it.