I was about to kill myself....
any one of you trying to merge a SEMI transparent png...
use imagecopy :)
<?
$flag = imagecreatefrompng('flags/images/flagWhiteFill.png');
$mask = imagecreatefrompng('flags/images/flag_transparent.png');
imagealphablending($flag, 1);
imagealphablending($mask, 1);
imagecopy($flag, $mask, 0,0,0,0,25,43);
Header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
imagepng($flag);
?>
ImageSaveAlpha(resource, bool); made the transparent color - not transparent... dunno why :)