How to watermark an image with phMagick

August 9, 2009 by nuno costa no comments

phMagick :: Watermarks

It's easy to add watermarks to an image, you can set the postion and opacity of the overlaped image

I've seen a lot of confusion with this function, you need specify 3 files :

  • The source and destination in phMagick constructor
  • The watermark image (the first parameter in the function) this will be the image that will be placed above the source imace

Function reference

$phMagick->watermark($image_to_use_as_watermark, $watermark_placement, $opacity);

 

Watermarks examples

 

From an existing image

$phMagick = &new phMagick('original.png', 'destination.png');
$phMagick->watermark('watermark-source.png', phMagickGravity::Center, 60);
Original Image Watermark Source Result
Original Image Watermark Source  Result

 

Draw text and use it as watermark

//adding text format
$format = new phMagickTextObject();
$format->fontSize(10)
 ->font('Arial.ttf')
 ->color('#000')
 ->background('#f0f0f0');
 
//creating an image that will serve as watermak source
$phMagick = &new phMagick('', 'wm_text.png');
$phMagick->fromString(html_entity_decode('© francodacosta.com'), $format);
 
 
 
//watermarking image
$phMagick = &new phMagick('original.png', 'watermark.png');
$phMagick->watermark('wm_text.png', phMagickGravity::NorthEast, 50);

 

Original Image Watermark Source Result
Original Image  

 

 

A more complex example

$format = new phMagickTextObject();
$format->fontSize(12)
 ->font('Arial.ttf')
 ->color('#000')
 ->background('none')
;
 
$phMagick = &new phMagick('', 'wm_text1.png');
$phMagick->debug = true ;
$phMagick->fromString(html_entity_decode('© francodacosta.com '), $format)
 ->rotate(-45); //rotating text 45 degrees
 
$phMagick = &new phMagick('resize_porp_wh.png', 'watermark3.png');
$phMagick->watermark('wm_text1.png', phMagickGravity::Center,70);

 

Original Image Watermark Source Result
Original Image Watermark Source  Result

 

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