Home - PHP Image Magician

PHP Image Magician It'll make you love GD

PHP Image Magician is an open source project that uses PHP GD to perform image manipulation in an easy, succinct way.

Resizing, cropping, watermarking, adding text - we got it all and more!

Features

Examples

Download PHP Image Magician, it's FREE!

PHP Image Magician is open source, so you don't have to worry about how you use it.

Download

Easy resize

Resize to landscape, portrait, or auto; then crop in one fell swoop!

Watermark

Add watermarks to your precious photos. Photo theft is serious. Preserves transparency.

Shadows & Reflections

Add gloss and/or depth to you image. Apple would be proud.

Transparency support

Supports and preserves transparency where possible.

Full crop capabilites

Choose the region to crop with a shortcode (t=top, tl=top left, etc) and crop away!

Text

Caption that image. Then caption it again.

Borders, Rounded corners, Rotation

Add borders. Not a 1px black border, a real'ish border. Rotate and sand off 'em corners.

Image type conversion

Convert from one image format to another, including BMP.

BMP support

Read and write BMP support is offered for you legacy, Window love'n bumpkins!

EXIF metadata

Reads EXIF metadata from your digital photos.

Effects & Filters

Grey scale, black & white, sepia, negative and vintage.

PSD read support

We've added a PSD reader library for PSD support. This file is not maintained by us.

Resize & Crop Example

  // *** Include PHP Image Magician library
  require_once('php_image_magician.php');

  // *** Open JPG image
  $magicianObj = new imageLib('racecar.jpg');

  // *** Resize to best fit then crop
  $magicianObj -> resizeImage(100, 200, 'crop');

  // *** Save resized image as a PNG
  $magicianObj -> saveImage('racecar_small.png');

Watermark Example

  // *** Include PHP Image Magician library
  require_once('php_image_magician.php');

  // *** Open JPG image
  $magicianObj = new imageLib('racecar.jpg');

  // *** Add watermark to bottom right, 50px from the edges
  $magicianObj -> addWatermark('monkey.png', 'br', 50);

  // *** Save watermarked image as a PNG
  $magicianObj -> saveImage('racecar_small.png');