Im wondering if I'm doing something wrong, or if this is as good a result as im going to get. Both PNGs on the left are 95x111. The image of the robot has a 5px or so padding of transparent pixels around it, but it seems to be causing problems when they merge?
$avatar = imagecreatefrompng("../guy.png");
$borderImg = imagecreatefrompng("../frame.png");
imagealphablending( $borderImg, false );
imagesavealpha( $borderImg, true );
imagecopyresampled($avatar,$borderImg, 0, 0, 0, 0, 95, 111,95, 111);
imagepng($avatar, $newfilenameBig);
Ive tried every combo of imagealphablending and imagesavealpha I can think of. When I set $avatar to imagesavealpa= true, then it doesnt even show the image as all, just the frame. Doesn't that seem strange? Is this as far as i'm gonna get using PHP GD?
UPDATE: The desired result can be achieved when both images are created manually in PS using 24 bit mode. Is there a way to do this using imagecopy or similar?