People say that ImageMagick is much faster. At best just compare both libraries and measure that. Prepare 1000 typical images. Write two scripts — one for GD, one for ImageMagick. Run both of them a few times. Compare results (total execution time, CPU and I/O usage, result image quality). Something which the best everyone else, … Read more
According to Wikipedia, GraphicsMagick is a fork from ImageMagick 5.5.2. As far as I can see, GMagick comes with no new features; the fork is concentrating on better performance and stability, which as @Col says you should test and compare yourself. From a feature perspective, if a library is needed for more than just basic … Read more
Install GD Library Which OS you are using? http://php.net/manual/en/image.installation.php Windows http://www.dmxzone.com/go/5001/how-do-i-install-gd-in-windows/ Linux http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-linux-install-or-add-php-gd-support-to-apache/
I have installed php7, I did the following to solve exactly the same error sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd sudo apt-get install php7.0-intl sudo apt-get install php7.0-xsl
imagealphablending( $targetImage, false ); imagesavealpha( $targetImage, true ); did it for me. Thanks ceejayoz. note, the target image needs the alpha settings, not the source image. Edit: full replacement code. See also answers below and their comments. This is not guaranteed to be be perfect in any way, but did achieve my needs at the … Read more