imagecopymerge() copies all (or a portion) of an image and merges it with another canvas by $percent

imagecopymerge($dest_r, $src_r, $dest_x, $dest_y, $src_x, $src_y, $src_w, $src_h, $percent);

<?php
    define("SRC_FILE", "php.png");
    
    $img = imagecreatefrompng(SRC_FILE);
    $img_copy = imagecreatefrompng(SRC_FILE);
    
    imagecopymerge($img_copy, $img, 10, 10, 0, 0,
                   imagesx($img), imagesy($img), 50);
    
    header("Content-Type: image/png");
    imagepng($img_copy);
?>