watari_exd:

In the docs for GD::Simple, it says that the $img->clear method clears the canvas by painting over it with the current background color. So I'd expect you should simply be able to do something like:

   $img->bgcolor($your_color_variable);
   $img->clear();
   ... the rest of your drawing code ...
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