Hi,
I wrote the function below. It switches out one color for another. The pictures going in are css sprites with various colors and a white background.
So.. sprite 1 might by blue and sprite 2 might be green.
The function would be run twice to replace the blue + green with whatever colors were required.
/**
* Changes the color of a graphic.
* $settings = array (
* 'icon'
* 'new_icon'
* 'old_color' = array
* 'new_color' = array
* );
*/
function updateIconColor($settings=array()) {
// Create Image
$image = imagecreatefrompng($settings['icon']);
// Convert True color image to a palatte
imagetruecolortopalette($image, false, 255);
// Restore Alpha
$white = imagecolorclosest($image, 255, 255, 255);
imagecolortransparent($image, $white);
// Find + Set color
$index = imagecolorclosest($image, $settings['old_color'][0],$settings['old_color'][1],$settings['old_color'][2]);
imagecolorset($image, $index, $settings['new_color'][0], $settings['new_color'][1], $settings['new_color'][2]);
// Restore Alpha
imageAlphaBlending($image, true);
imageSaveAlpha($image, true);
// Save
imagepng($image, $settings['new_icon']); // save image as gif
imagedestroy($image);
}
How could this be updated to allow some dithering (is that what it is called?) - the thing that smooths out an image to avoid pixelation around the edges?
Minor question.
1) Is there any reason why imagecolorexact doesn't work in this function. When I use imagecolorexact nothing happens and the picture remains the same.