imagecreate
    (PHP 3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)
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.
   
    We recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor().
   
    
Example 1. 
      Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.
      
<?php header("Content-type: image/png"); $im = @imagecreate(100, 50)     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); imagedestroy($im); ?>
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    See also imagedestroy() and
    imagecreatetruecolor().