Matt,
If you make your png with the oval white fill on black background instead of black fill with transparent background the following function does it.
<?php
// Load source and mask
$source = imagecreatefrompng( '1.png' );
$mask = imagecreatefrompng( '2.png' );
// Apply mask to source
imagealphamask( $source, $mask );
// Output
header( "Content-type: image/png");
imagepng( $source );
function imagealphamask( &$picture, $mask ) {
// Get sizes and set up new picture
$xSize = imagesx( $picture );
$ySize = imagesy( $picture );
$newPicture = imagecreatetruecolor( $xSize, $ySize );
imagesavealpha( $newPicture, true );
imagefill( $newPicture, 0, 0, imagecolorallocatealpha( $newPicture, 0, 0, 0, 127 ) );
// Resize mask if necessary
if( $xSize != imagesx( $mask ) || $ySize != imagesy( $mask ) ) {
$tempPic = imagecreatetruecolor( $xSize, $ySize );
imagecopyresampled( $tempPic, $mask, 0, 0, 0, 0, $xSize, $ySize, imagesx( $mask ), imagesy( $mask ) );
imagedestroy( $mask );
$mask = $tempPic;
}
// Perform pixel-based alpha map application
for( $x = 0; $x < $xSize; $x++ ) {
for( $y = 0; $y < $ySize; $y++ ) {
$alpha = imagecolorsforindex( $mask, imagecolorat( $mask, $x, $y ) );
$alpha = 127 - floor( $alpha[ 'red' ] / 2 );
$color = imagecolorsforindex( $picture, imagecolorat( $picture, $x, $y ) );
imagesetpixel( $newPicture, $x, $y, imagecolorallocatealpha( $newPicture, $color[ 'red' ], $color[ 'green' ], $color[ 'blue' ], $alpha ) );
}
}
// Copy back to original picture
imagedestroy( $picture );
$picture = $newPicture;
}
?>