Imagecopymerge() returns TRUE, but with invalid image resource

PHP
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I have the following code:

$final_image = imagecopymerge($base_image, $watermark_image, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $watermark_width, $watermark_height, 100);

It gives me no errors (and it actually returns TRUE), but when I try to use $final_image in any other function (such as imagedestroy() which only takes 1 parameter) I get the error that the supplied argument is not a valid Image resource.

GD is installed. Also all the parameters in the code above ($base_image, $watermark_image, $dest_x, etc) are valid and working.

What am I missing here!? How can the function return TRUE but not actually create a valid image resource?

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What do you get when you var_dump($final_image); ?

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bool(true)

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Are you saving the image after performing imagecopymerge()?

imagecopymerge($base_image, $watermark_image, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $watermark_width, $watermark_height, 100);

imagepng($base_image,'new_image.png');
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Ah! It seems I had a fundamental misunderstanding of how the function worked. I was passing $final_image along as the image resource in the functions that followed.

Makes sense in retrospect. Thanks tgavin!