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Hi all,

Here's the scenario - I have a rectangular image with a shape placed in the centre of it. Between the shape and the border, is an opaque white (50% transparent) color. What I'm trying to do is crop the image around a shape using the php gd library. So i thought I could try replace the opaque white color outside of the shape with transparent, (feel free to suggest a better approach).

I'm beginning to tear my hair out now so any help would be much appreciated! Please help!

Thanks in advance

bubs81