php - How can I replace one color with another in a png 24 alpha transparent image with GD

Question

I have tried:

$index = imagecolorresolve ( $im,  0,0,0 ); // get black
imagecolorset($im, $index, 255, 0, 255); // SET NEW COLOR

This seems to work with png 8 but not 24, and if I do it with 8 it turns out all weird because of the anti-aliasing.

Here is the full test code I'm using. (this is just test code, so be gentle).

function LoadPNG($imgname, $color = false)
{        
    $im = @imagecreatefrompng($imgname);
    imagealphablending($im, false); 

    if($color) {
      $index = imagecolorresolve ( $im,  0,0,0 ); // get black
      imagecolorset($im, $index, 255, 0, 255); // SET NEW COLOR
    }

    imageAlphaBlending($im, true);
    imageSaveAlpha($im, true);

    return $im;
}

header('Content-Type: image/png');

$img = LoadPNG("head.png", "red");

imagepng($img);
imagedestroy($img);

Answer 1

Based on the solution of inti, i made a script that works:

$imgname = "yourimage.png";
$im = imagecreatefrompng($imgname);
imagealphablending($im, false);
for ($x = imagesx($im); $x--;) {
    for ($y = imagesy($im); $y--;) {
        $rgb = imagecolorat($im, $x, $y);
        $c = imagecolorsforindex($im, $rgb);
        if ($c['red'] < 40 && $c['green'] < 40 && $c['blue'] < 40) { // dark colors
            // here we use the new color, but the original alpha channel
            $colorB = imagecolorallocatealpha($im, 255, 0, 255, $c['alpha']);
            imagesetpixel($im, $x, $y, $colorB);
        }
    }
}
imageAlphaBlending($im, true);
imageSaveAlpha($im, true);
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

I'd like a way to optimize it, because it is quite slow