Okay, so sometimes it's really IMPORTANT to get the exact color you want, only it's not *IN* the Image, and ImageColorResolve just isn't "close enough".The following code is a disgustingly gross hack, rather slow, but it does that.$colorcount = array();for ($x = 0; $x < $width; $x++){ for ($y = 0; $y < $height; $y++){ $colorindex = imagecolorat($jpg, $x, $y); if (!isset($colorcount[$colorindex])){ $colorcount[$colorindex] = 1; } else{ $colorcount[$colorindex]++; } }}asort($colorcount);reset($colorcount);$black = imagecolorexact($jpg, 0, 0, 0);if ($black == -1){ $goner = key($colorcount); $rgb = imagecolorsforindex($jpg, $goner); #error_log("Need black: About to kill $goner ($rgb[red], $rgb[green], $rgb[blue]) which was only used in $colorcount[$goner] pixels", 0); unset($colorcount[$goner]); imagecolordeallocate($jpg, $goner); $black = imagecolorallocate($jpg, 0, 0, 0);}if ($black == -1){ $black = imagecolorresolve($jpg, 0, 0, 0); #error_log("Damn! STILL couldn't allocate the color!", 0);}