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I am having to use system commands in PHP, how would I resize the top layer to fit both height and width (even if the top layer is cropped slightly) it also needs to keep aspect ratio.

system('convert background.png overlay.php \
\( -clone 0 -alpha extract \) \
\( -clone 0 -clone 1 -compose multiply -composite \) \
-delete 0,1 +swap -alpha off -compose copy_opacity -composite overlay_result.png');

I am really new to imagemagick so any help would be grateful, kindest regards.

When resizing one image to the size of another, if they have different aspect ratios then you have a choice of either resizing exactly or keeping the original aspect ratio. You can't do both.

Please show sample input images. ".php" is not a format known to IM.

Hi snibgo, sorry the format is actually PNG that is a typo. Please can you show me an example for both (exact resize, and keeping aspect ratio)? Both would be useful, I thought we could possibly resize but keeping the aspect ratio > then crop ? then overlay?

For exact resizing, and other options, see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... p#geometry

Yes, after resizing, one image may be cropped. Or the other could be extended. See options on http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... ptions.php

So if my small image is 500x800px and my large image is 2000x2000 I should probably use
500x800^ ?

That depends on what you want. I encourage you to try it out: The result is 800x800 pixels.