[gnznroses]

yeah, pretty much:

     $white = imagecolorallocate($mygraphic, 255, 255, 255);
      $black = imagecolorallocate($mygraphic, 0, 0, 0);

$bgcolor = imagecolortransparent($mygraphic, $white);
imagefilledrectangle($mygraphic, 0, 0, $width, $$height, $bgcolor);

imagettftext($mygraphic, $textsize, 0, $curX, $curY, $curcolor, $font, $txt);

      imagegif($mygraphic, $username . ".gif");
      imagedestroy($mygraphic);