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Brightening or Darkening an RGB Buffered Image

In this tutorial we are going to see all that is necessary in order to brighten or darken an RGB Buffered Image from a source. This is one of the most basic image processing techniques that you will use when developing applications that involve images.

Basically, to brighten or darken a buffered image one should take the following steps:

  • Load an image from a URL using Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage method
  • Use an ImageObserver to monitor the loading of the image. When the image is fully load the user will be notified
  • Create a buffed image from the source image with a format more close to the custom display environment using GraphicsEnvironmentGraphicsDevice and GraphicsConfiguration to perform several image configurations
  • Draw the image into the buffered image
  • Use RescaleOp to set up the darkening or the brightening factor
  • And simply paint the buffered image in a new Frame
as you can see in the code snippet that follows:
package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.desktop;

import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.GraphicsConfiguration;
import java.awt.GraphicsDevice;
import java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.Transparency;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.ImageObserver;
import java.awt.image.RescaleOp;

public class BufferedImageSaturation {

    static BufferedImage image;
    static boolean imageLoaded = false;

    public static void main(String[] args) {

  // The ImageObserver implementation to observe loading of the image

  ImageObserver myImageObserver = new ImageObserver() {

    public boolean imageUpdate(Image image, int flags, int x, int y, int width, int height) {

if ((flags & ALLBITS) != 0) {

  imageLoaded = true;

  System.out.println("Image loading finished!");

  return false;

}

return true;

    }

  };

  // The image URL - change to where your image file is located!

  String imageURL = "image.png";

  /**

   * This call returns immediately and pixels are loaded in the background

   * We use an ImageObserver to be notified when the loading of the image

   * is complete

   */

  Image sourceImage = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(imageURL);

  sourceImage.getWidth(myImageObserver);

  // We wait until the image is fully loaded

  while (!imageLoaded) {

try {

    Thread.sleep(100);

} catch (InterruptedException e) {

}

  }

  // Create a buffered image from the source image with a format that's compatible with the screen

  GraphicsEnvironment graphicsEnvironment = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();

  GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice = graphicsEnvironment.getDefaultScreenDevice();

  GraphicsConfiguration graphicsConfiguration = graphicsDevice.getDefaultConfiguration();

  // If the source image has no alpha info use Transparency.OPAQUE instead

  image = graphicsConfiguration.createCompatibleImage(sourceImage.getWidth(null), sourceImage.getHeight(null), Transparency.BITMASK);

  // Copy image to buffered image

  Graphics graphics = image.createGraphics();

  // Paint the image onto the buffered image

  graphics.drawImage(sourceImage, 0, 0, null);

  graphics.dispose();

  // Brighten the image by 20%

  float scaleFactor = 1.2f;

  RescaleOp op = new RescaleOp(scaleFactor, 0, null);

  image = op.filter(image, null);

  // Darken the image by 5%

  scaleFactor = 0.5f;

  op = new RescaleOp(scaleFactor, 0, null);

  image = op.filter(image, null);

  // Create frame with specific title

  Frame frame = new Frame("Example Frame");

  // Add a component with a custom paint method

  frame.add(new CustomPaintComponent());

  // Display the frame

  int frameWidth = 300;

  int frameHeight = 300;

  frame.setSize(frameWidth, frameHeight);

  frame.setVisible(true);

    }

    /**
     * To draw on the screen, it is first necessary to subclass a Component and
     * override its paint() method. The paint() method is automatically called
     * by the windowing system whenever component's area needs to be repainted.
     */
    static class CustomPaintComponent extends Component {

  public void paint(Graphics g) {

// Retrieve the graphics context; this object is used to paint

// shapes

Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;

/**

 * Draw an Image object The coordinate system of a graphics context

 * is such that the origin is at the northwest corner and x-axis

 * increases toward the right while the y-axis increases toward the

 * bottom.

 */

int x = 0;

int y = 0;

g2d.drawImage(image, x, y, this);

  }

    }

}

 
This was an example on how to Brighten or Darken an RGB Image in Java.

Ilias Tsagklis

Ilias is a software developer turned online entrepreneur. He is co-founder and Executive Editor at Java Code Geeks.
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