Allie's code for Drawing Text on an Image
SLAVE CODE FOLLOWS
<?php // combine two images (i.e., jpg/png) to create a watermark
$name = "Allie";
// get the images from files
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg("../images/chopstick.jpg");
// get sizes
$width = imagesx($image);
$height = imagesy($image);
$font = "../fonts/arial.ttf";
// sets the current foreground color to RGB (0, 0, 0), which is BLACK
$black = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
// combines the image with text using the following specs
// (image, font-size, angle-rotation, x-coord, y-coord, text-color, font-name, text)
imagettftext($image, 20, 0, 10, $height - 4, $black, $font, $name);
//=== display the image
// tell the server that a PNG image follows
header("Content-type: image/png");
// display the image
imagepng($image);
// destroy the image (i.e., release memory)
imagedestroy ($image);
?>