{"id":14913,"date":"2011-05-19T22:51:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14913"},"modified":"2011-05-19T22:51:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T20:51:43","slug":"color-image-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/19\/color-image-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Image Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today, I had to create a simplistic tool for one of my side projects. \u00a0What I needed was a quick way to create an image of a specific size, filled with specific color. \u00a0If it was just for me, I could have survived with the Linux command line, of course. \u00a0But there are other, non-technical people involved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/color_image_generator.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14914\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/19\/color-image-generator\/color_image_generator\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/color_image_generator.png?fit=443%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"443,318\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Color Image Generator\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/color_image_generator.png?fit=443%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14914\" title=\"Color Image Generator\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/color_image_generator.png?resize=443%2C318&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I coded a quick prototype in PHP with ImageMagick, which I called <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/color-image-generator\/\">Color Image Generator<\/a>. \u00a0Once the functionality was there, I cleaned it up a bit and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mamchenkov\/Color-Image-Generator\">published to GitHub<\/a>. \u00a0You can grab the sources and use them any way you like, or you can use the hosted version. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today, I had to create a simplistic tool for one of my side projects. \u00a0What I needed was a quick way to create an image of a specific size, filled with specific color. \u00a0If it was just for me, I could have survived with the Linux command line, of course. \u00a0But there are other, non-technical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/19\/color-image-generator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Color Image Generator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[918,38,1157],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-announcements","tag-php","tag-web-design"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today, I had to create a simplistic tool for one of my side projects. 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