Counterpart To Pil's Image.paste In Php

I was asked to port a Python application to PHP (and I'm not very fond of PHP). The part I'm having trouble to port uses a set of monochromatic 'template' images based on the wonde

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As per my comments, ImageMagick would be able to do this. However you've indicated that this may not be non-optimal for your use case, so consider using GD2. There's a demo on how to do image merging on the PHP site.

I would guess that this can be done on any (fairly recent) default PHP installation.