Make a better image library

[zombor]

The current one sucks. It should be driver based to use different engines like GD and Image Magick.

Syntax to be decided.

[jonathangordon]

Here are some tips on transparent image tricks with GD2 so you can make bland and work with transparent PNG files and suck.

Of particular interest are imagecreatetrucolortransparent(), and blankpng().

http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?p=233028

Read around.

[Lick]

I was thinking of an object-oriented approach using an Image base class. The main uses of an image library would be the following: 1) generation of captchas 2) rendering of text-images (like a custom-font paragraph header) 3) resizing/cropping of photos (like forum avatars)

So if we'd provide a simple Image base class, from which CaptchaImage/TextImage/PhotoImage? could derive, that would simplify the API for each class.

Not sure if this would fit in KohanaPHP's design.

[Shadowhand]

r1830 is the first functional GD driver. Please test!

[Shadowhand]

Fully working GD driver added in r1849.