Hi Mr. M, Thanks for the response... I've gotten rid of the indirect syntax (at least I think I've gotten rid of all of it), which certainly is aesthetically pleasing to me :-). However, I'm still not able to get the script working. I'm all for creating the image without bringing trueColor() into the mix separately. But in order to know the height and width of the image, I need to be able to getbounds() on the source image. The code I've pieced together does this after making $buildable. Is there another way to get the height and width of the original image? Cheers, K.

In reply to Re^2: GD::Image trueColor() hangup... by kalchas
in thread GD::Image trueColor() hangup... by kalchas

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