Forum stats into an image? (like http://www.mygamercard.net/)

[Bowromir]

Hi people,

I'm thinking of a possible feature for the members on my forum like on http://www.mygamercard.net/, where you;

1:select a theme (background image)
2:an image gets generated with for example your forum name, postcount etc which updates live or at least once a day..

How is this made? Is it php script that gets info from the database and then converts it into an image? I googled for: "convert text to jpg" but did'nt got me far . Does it take a programming expert to make this?

Any help would be appreciated!