image manipulation

imagine.php

public function show() {

        // Begin capturing the byte stream
        ob_start();

        // generate the byte stream
        imagejpeg($this->image, NULL, 100);

        // and finally retrieve the byte stream
        $rawImageBytes = ob_get_clean();

        echo "<img src='data:image/jpeg;base64," . base64_encode( $rawImageBytes ) . "' />";

}