imagecreate Create a new palette based image &reftitle.description; resourceimagecreate intwidth intheight imagecreate returns an image identifier representing a blank image of specified size. In general, we recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor instead of imagecreate so that image processing occurs on the highest quality image possible. If you want to output a palette image, then imagetruecolortopalette should be called immediately before saving the image with imagepng or imagegif. &reftitle.parameters; width The image width. height The image height. &reftitle.returnvalues; &gd.return.identifier; &reftitle.examples; ]]> &example.outputs.similar; Output of example : Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image. &reftitle.seealso; imagedestroy imagecreatetruecolor