add a stripe on an image

[Bob Bedford]

I've an image that is 300x225 pixels.
I've to send this image to mobile phones using the mms. For this the best
result is given using 120x160 pixels.
So I may generate a 120 pixels large image, but I've a lot of unused space
under the image, as scaling proportionally, my image is then 120x90.

how to enlarge the image in order to get the picture 120x90 and then a white
stripe where I may write the website (or put the logo).

The resulting image should be 120x160, 120x90 used by the picture, 120x70 a
white stripe where I may put the logo or a text.

Thanks

Bob

[NC]

Bob Bedford wrote:

I've an image that is 300x225 pixels.
I've to send this image to mobile phones using the mms. For this
the best result is given using 120x160 pixels.
So I may generate a 120 pixels large image, but I've a lot of
unused space under the image, as scaling proportionally,
my image is then 120x90.

how to enlarge the image in order to get the picture 120x90
and then a white stripe where I may write the website (or put
the logo).

1. Create a blank 120x160 image with imagecreate().
2. Open the existing 120x90 image with imagecreatefrom X().
3. Copy the existing 120x90 image opened in Step 2 into
the blank image created in Step 1 with imagecopy().
4. Output the newly generated 120x160 image with imageX().

X, of course, stands for the image type (gif, jpeg, png, etc.)

Cheers,
NC

[Erwin Moller]

Bob Bedford wrote:

I've an image that is 300x225 pixels.
I've to send this image to mobile phones using the mms. For this the best
result is given using 120x160 pixels.
So I may generate a 120 pixels large image, but I've a lot of unused space
under the image, as scaling proportionally, my image is then 120x90.

how to enlarge the image in order to get the picture 120x90 and then a
white stripe where I may write the website (or put the logo).

The resulting image should be 120x160, 120x90 used by the picture, 120x70
a white stripe where I may put the logo or a text.

Thanks

Bob

Hi Bob,

Start reading here:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

It boils down to:
1) Make sure you have GD2-support on your PHP-machine. Check via phpinfo()

2) Open the image (from file eg) with functions like imagecreatefrom gif or
imagecreatefrom jpg, etc. You can look them up, I don't know your format.

3) Resample your image (resampling is better than resizing) and copy it to
another slightly larger image you first create.
Look at functions like imagecopyresamp led()

4) write your text under it.

Good luck.

Regards,
Erwin Moller