Intervention/image · error · InvalidArgumentException

Frame #${position} could not be found in the image

Error message

Frame #${position} could not be found in the image

What it means

Core::frame($position) looks up the frame collection with at() and requires a hit. Under the GD driver the core holds multiple frames only for animated GIF decodes; any other image has exactly one frame at position 0. Requesting any other position — including 1 — throws this InvalidArgumentException naming the missing index.

Source

Thrown at src/Drivers/Gd/Core.php:76

    {
        $this->clear()->push(new Frame($native));

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     *
     * @see CoreInterface::frame()
     *
     * @throws InvalidArgumentException
     */
    public function frame(int $position): FrameInterface
    {
        $frame = $this->at($position);

        if ($frame === null) {
            throw new InvalidArgumentException('Frame #' . $position . ' could not be found in the image');
        }

        return $frame;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     *
     * @see CoreInterface::loops()
     */
    public function loops(): int
    {
        return $this->loops;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     *

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Solutions

1. Check the count first: $image->core()->count() and iterate for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++)
2. Remember positions are 0-based — the first frame is frame(0)
3. For formats other than GIF under the GD driver, treat the image as single-frame; switch to the Imagick driver if you need TIFF/animated WebP frames

Example fix

// before
for ($i = 0; $i <= $image->core()->count(); $i++) {
    $frame = $image->core()->frame($i); // throws on last iteration
}

// after
for ($i = 0, $n = $image->core()->count(); $i < $n; $i++) {
    $frame = $image->core()->frame($i);
}

$position = max(0, $position);
if ($position >= $image->core()->count()) {
    // frame does not exist; static GD images only have frame 0
    $position = 0;
}

use Intervention\Image\Exceptions\InvalidArgumentException;

try {
    $frame = $image->core()->frame($i);
} catch (InvalidArgumentException $e) {
    $frame = $image->core()->first(); // graceful single-frame fallback
}

When it happens

Trigger: $image->core()->frame(1) or higher on a static JPEG/PNG/WebP; looping frame($i++) over an image without checking the frame count; assuming Imagick-style multi-frame cores (TIFF/animated WebP) exist under GD.

Common situations: Generic animation-handling code run against the GD driver, which only animates GIFs; off-by-one loops written as for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++); processing animated GIFs after an operation collapsed the core to a single frame.

Related errors

• Offset is not in the range of frames
• Trim modifier cannot be applied to animated images
• Failed to apply {class}, unable to re-apply image frame
• Offset is not in the range of frames
• Normalized color value must be in range 0 to 1

AI-assisted analysis of Intervention/image@5598b9e397 (2026-08-23). Data as JSON: /api/errors/aa913abfc341d31b. Report an issue: GitHub.