Re: Combining two images

alistair.calder@gmail.com wrote:

>I use a PHP script as a random image selector. I would like to add a
>small 'footer' image to the bottom of each one at runtime. I change
>the pool of images regularly so it is not something I want to do in
>photoshop, rather, I would like to find a way to do this in PHP.
>
>Is there a way to attach two images together in this way so that they
>are rendered as a single image?
>
>+--------------+
>| Main Image |
>+ -------------+
>| Footer Image |
>+--------------+

This requires that you actually modify the JPEG image itself. To do that,
you have to uncompress the JPEGs, combine the images, and recompress it to
a JPEG.

There are command line or scripting solutions for this, but I don't think
you'll want to do it on the fly in PHP.

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