So what happens if you don't have an application like Adobe Fireworks to make your watermark image? All is not lost. You can still create a watermark image manually and then paste it in using a similar technique. For this next demo, we're going to create a second image using ColdFusion 8 that has a gray box with the text, Kinky Solutions, centered on it. Then just as we did in the previous example, we're going to paste it over the original image:

<!--- Read in the original image. --->
<cfset objImage = ImageRead( "./blue_eyes.jpg" ) />

<!---

Create a new image for the watermark with the given dimensions and give it a very light gray canvas color.

--->
<cfset objWatermark = ImageNew(
     "",
     100,
     20,
     "rgb",
     "##F0F0F0"
     ) />

<!---

Set the drawing color. This will be the color for all image manipulations going forward.

--->
<cfset ImageSetDrawingColor(
     objWatermark,
     "##666666"
     ) />

<!--- Draw the rectangle. --->
<cfset ImageDrawRect(
     objWatermark,
     0,
     0,
     (objWatermark.GetWidth() - 1),
     (objWatermark.GetHeight() - 1)
     ) />

<!---

Set text drawing anti-aliasing. This will give the text a smoother rendered look (rather than the jagged text you'd see on a Web page).

--->
<cfset ImageSetAntialiasing(
     objWatermark,
     "on"
     ) />

<!--- Create text attributes. --->
<cfset objAttributes = {
     Font = "Verdana",
     Size = "10",
     Style = "Italic"
     } />

<!--- Draw the watermark text onto our watermark image. --->
<cfset ImageDrawText(
     objWatermark,
     "Kinky Solutions",
     11,
     14,
     objAttributes
     ) />

<!---

When we paste the watermark onto the photo, we don't want it to be fully visible. So let's set the drawing transparency to 50% before we paste.

--->
<cfset ImageSetDrawingTransparency(
     objImage,
     50
     ) />

<!---

Paste the manually created watermark image onto the photo. This time, we don't need to turn on any anti-aliasing since the watermark has solid borders. The anti-alisasing only helps us when the pasted image has an anti-aliased perimeter.

--->
<cfset ImagePaste(
     objImage,
     objWatermark,
     (objImage.GetWidth() - objWatermark.GetWidth() - 3),
     (objImage.GetHeight() - objWatermark.GetHeight() - 3)
     ) />

<!--- Write the image with the new watermark to the browser. --->
<cfimage
     action="writetobrowser"
     source="#objImage#"
     />

Now instead of reading in a watermark image, we're creating an entirely new image canvas using ImageNew(), which takes the target image (left blank since we're creating it from scratch), the width and height, the image type, and the canvas color. For this image we use an RGB color set. This method can also take an ARGB color set, but the documentation isn't very clear on what that is. I assume that the "A" stands for Alpha, but I couldn't figure out how to make a transparent canvas (we'll discuss this later on).