Phpimageworkshop.com Website Review

imageworkshop is a php 5.3+ library that helps you to manage images, based on gd library php image workshop is an open source clas* using gd library that helps you to manage images with php. this clas* is thought like photo editing software (photoshop, gimp...): you can superimpose many layers or even layer groups, each it is thought to do simple tasks like creating thumbnails or pasting watermarks and also to do more complex tasks (multiple here is a none exhaustive list of what you can do with: pasting an image (or multiple) on another one, cropping, moving, resizing, group layer: a layer that includes multiple sublayers at different level in its stack, all leveled on the top of its background. if you perform an action on the group, all its sublayers (and subgroups) will be affected ! understand that an imageworkshop object is a layer and a group at the same time, unlike photoshop (a group doesn't have a background): it has got a background image (transparent by default) and a stack of sublayers (empty by default) on the top of its background. when you have finished manipulating your layers, you just have to execute a method to get the merged image of all layer backgrounds ! right, we will add a watermark on my picture taken on my trip to norway: these layers are created from pictures: they have now the images as a background and their width and height ! $norwaylayer is used like a group: you can superimpose multiple layers on its stack, each layer is leveled on the top of its background we chose the $watermarklayer position thanks to the 4rth parameter lb (left bottom) and we applied translations of 12px from the left