I'm trying to just draw a string over an existing image loaded from disk.

I'm using the GD module from cpan.

I managed to draw the string fine, but the string shows in this weird transparent like color instead of plain black. I see the POD for colorAllocate and colorExact but I really don't get what theyr'e supposed to do, and how I should draw a black coloured string?

This is my code:

$to_print = "some string";
my $im = newFromJpeg GD::Image("somefile.jpg");
my $black = $im->colorExact(0,0,0);
#also tried $im->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
$im->stringFT($black, '/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Bold.ttf' ,12, 0, 100, 50, 
+$to_print);

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The color returned is also a -1, So what is the right way to set black as a color?

It just prints a wierd transparent color, that looks a lot like the background of the image. (The background is a texture). And changing the RGB values doesn't help in any way!

Any help appreciated! :)

In reply to how can I set a real color while drawing text with GD by gideondsouza

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