How to convert PNG to 8-bit PNG using PHP GD library
To convert any PNG image to 8-bit PNG use this function, I've just created
function convertPNGto8bitPNG ()
function convertPNGto8bitPNG ($sourcePath, $destPath) {
$srcimage = imagecreatefrompng($sourcePath);
list($width, $height) = getimagesize($sourcePath);
$img = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
$bga = imagecolorallocatealpha($img, 0, 0, 0, 127);
imagecolortransparent($img, $bga);
imagefill($img, 0, 0, $bga);
imagecopy($img, $srcimage, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height);
imagetruecolortopalette($img, false, 255);
imagesavealpha($img, true);
imagepng($img, $destPath);
imagedestroy($img);
}
Parameters
- $sourcePath - Path to source PNG file
- $destPath - Path to destination PNG file
Note
I recommend to make sure that $sourcePath
exists and $destPath
is writable before running this code. Maybe this function won't work with some transparent images.
Usage
convertPNGto8bitPNG ('pfc.png', 'pfc8bit.png');
Example (original -> 8-bit)
(Source: pfc.png) ORIGINAL PNG IMAGE
(Destination: pfc8bit.png) CONVERTED PNG IMAGE (8-bit)
Hope someone finds this helpful.
Instead of GD library I strongly recommend using pngquant 1.5+ commandline using exec()
or popen()
functions.
GD library has very poor-quality palette generation code.
Same image as in the other answer, same file size as GD library, but converted using pngquant
to merely 100 colors (not even 256):
pngquant supports alpha transparency very well.