Newbie Question About JPEGs, GD, and Text

I currently have a postcard application running on my web site that sends out an email message with a "card" attached that the sender chose to accompany the message. It is a simple application.

I want to make it so the text is written on the JPG itself and then attatched to the text mail message and sent off to the recipient. Very much like Apple's iCards. I have searched all over the place to find a tutorial on this or something similar. But haven't had any luck. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

i would just look through the available image functions, which can be found here

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

hope that helps.

I was looking for a tutorial. The functions are great...but I am a newbie and need a little coaching to get it together. thanks for the page though.

Well, you can check out the GD library tutorial here. That will show you how the functions work. The one function that you will need to use that isn't demonstrated in their is imagecreatefromjpeg()...