DJ Mike's Tutorials: PHP

Imagick Functions

Imagick::newImage

Description:

bool Imagick::newImage ( int $width , int $height , mixed $background [, string $format ] )

Creates a new image and associates ImagickPixel value or string as background color.

Parameters:

width

Width of the new image

height

Height of the new image

background

String or ImagickPixel object representing the background color.

format

Image format. This parameter was added in Imagick version 2.0.1.

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success.

Errors/Exceptions

Throws ImagickException on error.

Example

<?
$text = "DJ Mike";
$font = "Bookman-DemiItalic";
$pointsize = 100;
$depth = 4;

# make a transparent pallete
$pallete = new Imagick;
$pallete->newimage(450,105, "transparent");
# set pallet format to gif
$pallete->setimageformat("gif");

# make a draw object with settings
$draw = new imagickdraw();
$draw->setgravity(imagick::GRAVITY_CENTER);
$draw->setfont("$font");
$draw->setfontsize($pointsize);

# set font color white
$draw->setfillcolor("#ffffff");
# offset annotate
$pallete->annotateImage ( $draw,$depth ,-$depth-3, 0, $text );
$pallete->annotateImage ( $draw,-$depth ,-$depth-3, 0, $text );

# set font color black
$draw->setfillcolor("#000000");
# offset annotate
$pallete->annotateImage ( $draw,-$depth ,$depth-2, 0, $text );
$pallete->annotateImage ( $draw,$depth ,$depth-3, 0, $text );

# set font color blue
$draw->setfillcolor("#0000ff");
# center annotate on top of offset annotates
$pallete->annotateImage ( $draw,0 ,0, 0, $text );

# blur
$pallete->gaussianBlurImage( 2, 1.5 ); 

# output to browser
$pallete->setImageFormat("gif");
header( "Content-Type: image/gif" );
echo $pallete;
?>

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