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# imagecreate

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

imagecreate -- Create a new palette based image

## Description

resource imagecreate ( int x_size, int y_size)

imagecreate() returns an image identifier representing a blank image of size `x_size` by `y_size`.

Example 1. Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.

    <?php
    header ("Content-type: image/png");
    $im = @imagecreate (50, 100)
        or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
    $background_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
    $text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);
    imagestring ($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
    imagepng ($im);
    ?>

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