trying to place text on an image

[aebstract]

<?php

$file = 'image.jpg';
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($file);
list($width, $height) = getimagesize($file);

$font = 'arial.ttf';
$size = 8;

$title = 'Last played:';
$artist = 'artist name';
$song = 'song name';

$colorHex = '000000';

list($tr, $tg, $tb) = sscanf($colorHex, '%02X%02X%02X');

$textColor = imagecolorallocate($image, $tr, $tg, $tb);

imagettftext($image, $size, 0, 4, $height-29, $textColor, $font, trim($title));
imagettftext($image, $size, 0, 4, $height-17, $textColor, $font, trim($song));
imagettftext($image, $size, 0, 4, $height-5, $textColor, $font, trim($artist));

imagejpeg($image, 'image2.jpg', 95);

?>

Trying to place text on top of an existing image and create a new image from that. Once I figure out how to reference values from another website, it should be able to update automatically with certain bits of information.. as it changes on that site. Right now it isn't working really at all. Could someone possibly help on this?

[ShiloVir]

hows this?:

 

<?php
//use existing image as a canvas
$myImage = ImageCreateFromPNG ("baseimage.png");

//allocate the color white
$white = ImageColorAllocate ($myImage, 255, 255, 255);

//draw on the new canvas
ImageFilledEllipse($myImage, 100, 70, 20, 20, $white);
ImageFilledEllipse($myImage, 175, 70, 20, 20, $white);
ImageFilledEllipse($myImage, 250, 70, 20, 20, $white);

//output the image to the browser
header ("Content-type: image/png");
ImagePNG($myImage);

//clean up after yourself
ImageDestroy($myImage);
?>

[aebstract]

Didn't do anything :/