Question

My website (coded in html and php in entirety) includes a feature which allows certain users to upload pictures. The picture is resized and watermarked using this code:

function watermarkpic($filename) {

ini_set('max_input_time', 300);

require 'config.php';  

$watermark = imagecreatefrompng('watermarknew.png');
$watermarkwidth = imagesx($watermark);
$watermarkheight = imagesy($watermark);

if(preg_match('/[.](jpg)$/', $filename)) {  
        $originalimage = imagecreatefromjpeg($path_to_image_directory . $filename);  
    } else if (preg_match('/[.](gif)$/', $filename)) {  
        $originalimage = imagecreatefromgif($path_to_image_directory . $filename);  
    } else if (preg_match('/[.](png)$/', $filename)) {  
        $originalimage = imagecreatefrompng($path_to_image_directory . $filename);  
    }  

$originalwidth = imagesx($originalimage);
$originalheight = imagesy($originalimage);

$maxsize = 800;
$imgratio = $originalwidth / $originalheight;

if($imgratio > 1) {
    $finalwidth = $maxsize;
    $finalheight = $maxsize / $imgratio;
}
else {
    $finalheight = $maxsize;
    $finalwidth = $maxsize * $imgratio;
}   

$finalimage = imagecreatetruecolor($finalwidth,$finalheight);

imagecopyresampled($finalimage, $originalimage, 0,0,0,0,$finalwidth,$finalheight,$originalwidth,$originalheight);

imagecopymerge($finalimage, $watermark, 0, 0, 0, 0, $watermarkwidth, $watermarkheight, 100);

//now move the file where it needs to go
if(!file_exists($path_to_medimage_directory)) {  
        if(!mkdir($path_to_medimage_directory)) {  
                die("There was a problem. Please try again!");  
        }  
     } 

 imagejpeg($finalimage, $path_to_medimage_directory . $filename);   
}

The issue is that the watermark has a transparent background, but it shows up as having a black background on the image. I have seen stuff about alpha blending, etc. but I do not really know what this is. I want to understand what I am doing, as well as fix the problem so that the watermark is transparent as it should be. The real picture should fill the space.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

So I figured it out; instead of using imagecopymerge() I used imagecopy() and it worked fine.

I saw somewhere that there may be a bug with imagecopymerge()that causes this in PHP5.