Andrew Heebner, formerly of EvilWalrus.com, has sent in a note today about the release of some software he's created to help create "blog-style images" quickly and easily - BlogButton.

BlogButton is a dynamic set of classes with a small footprint that automatically generates on-the-fly blog-style images for use anywhere.

Full example seen here: http://pear.upear.com/misc/example.php
Docs: http://pear.upear.com/misc/bbdocs/
Download: link here

Also, a PEAR server is setup for PEAR 1.4.0b1 users, so all they have to do is the following:

pear channel-discover pear.upear.com
pear install --alldeps upear/BlogButton

After that, see the examples directory in the @PHP-DIR@/PEAR/UPEAR/BlogButton directory

As of the posting of this, I couldn't get to the example site to check it out, though...