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| imagecreate imagecreate    (PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5) imagecreate -- Create a new palette based imageDescriptionresource 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.
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<?phpheader("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().
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