[SOLVED] Storing an image in the system as a file

[sruthi_2009]

hi all

I have been trying to store an image in the system. The problem I am encountering is that I have to convert an object of Image class into an object of BufferedImage class.

Here is the sample code I have written:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

public class mig3{
public static void main(String args[]){
//loading an image
Image one=null;
int iw,ih,i;
int pixels[];
try { 
File f = new File("C:/One.jpg");
BufferedImage sl = ImageIO.read(f);
one= (Image)sl;

}catch(Exception en){en.printStackTrace(); System.out.println("Error! "+en);}

//transforming to an array

iw=one.getWidth(null);
ih=one.getWidth(null);
pixels = new int[iw * ih];
try{
PixelGrabber grabber = new PixelGrabber(one, 0, 0, iw, ih, pixels,0,iw); 
grabber.grabPixels();
} catch (InterruptedException ie) { }
/*System.out.println("The pixel values are:\n");
for(i=0;i<iw*ih;i++)
       System.out.println("\t"+pixels[i]);*/

int [] pix = (int [])pixels;
Canvas c=new Canvas();
Image one1=c.createImage(new MemoryImageSource(iw,ih,pix,0,iw));
//Storing
try{
File fil = new File("C:/One1.jpg");
[COLOR="Red"]//I need the buffered image to use the write method here[/COLOR]

ImageIO.write([COLOR="Red"]/*Buffered Image must come here*/[/COLOR], "jpg", fil);
}catch(Exception en){en.printStackTrace(); System.out.println("Error! "+en);}
}
}

Is there any other method to store the image as a file?

Any help is appreciated!
Thank you.

[DarrylBurke]

If you want to add to your code, the easiest thing is to construct a new BufferedImage of the same size, and drawImage to its Graphics context.

But you should also be able to setRGB the pixel array to a BufferedImage and do away with the Image altogether.

db

[toadaly]

I agree with Daryl. Just construct the BufferedImage first, get its graphics context, and do a g.drawImage(...your image).

(of course, in the exmaple you gave, 'one' is already a BufferedImage, because it's really 's1', so you could have just manipulated it as a BufferedImage and then called ImageIO.write)

[sruthi_2009]

@ Darryl and @ toadaly

Thank you. I will try and let you know

[sruthi_2009]

Hello all!!

I have finally tried to do this to construct an image from the pixel array and store it as a file in the system.
I am doing a project on steganography.
I want to know if this code is right and will work for every other case.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
public class img{
public static void main(String args[]){
//loading an image
Image one=null;
int iw,ih,i;
int pixels[];
try { 
File f = new File("C:/Winter.jpg");
BufferedImage sl = ImageIO.read(f);
one= (Image)sl;

//transforming to an array

iw=one.getWidth(null);
ih=one.getHeight(null);
pixels = new int[iw * ih];
try{
	PixelGrabber grabber = new PixelGrabber(one, 0, 0, iw, ih, pixels,0,iw); 
	grabber.grabPixels();
    } catch (InterruptedException ie) { }

int [] pix = (int [])pixels;  //Here actually the array is modified. didnt write the code here
BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(iw,ih,sl.getType());
bi.setRGB (0, 0, iw, ih, pix, 0, iw); 
//Storing
try{
	File fil = new File("C:/y.jpg");
	ImageIO.write(bi, "jpg", fil);
     }catch(Exception en){en.printStackTrace(); System.out.println("Error! "+en);}
}catch(Exception en){en.printStackTrace(); System.out.println("Error! "+en);}
}
}

I am getting an OutOfMemoryException - something about insufficient heap space for images of 3296x2472 pixels(this is a pic taken from my digicam)

The winter image is the basic image found in sample pictures of Windows of 800x600 pixels

Please help me in this regard.

Any help is appreciated!

Thank you :)

[toadaly]

Increase your heap size with a -Xmx128m switch on the command line. If that still isn't enough, bump it to 256m.

[sruthi_2009]

Could you please explain in detail on how to increase the size of the heap?
Thank you

[toadaly]

java -Xmx128m....

[sruthi_2009]

@toadaly

thank you :)

@anyone

Can anyone please tell me if my code is correct?

[toadaly]

This is not going to work for all image types:

BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(iw,ih,sl.getType());

Since you used a pixel grabber constructor with the default RGB color model, your data is now in ARGB format regardless of what it originally was. You should explicitly set your BufferedImage to TYPE_INT_ARGB. It should then work with any color model type for input JPEGs.

By the way, it looks like you've reimplemented BufferedImage.getSubImage(). You could compress all this down to 3 lines of code and not have to worry about messing with various image types.

[sruthi_2009]

@ toadaly
Thanks for the reply!

I dont want a subimage. I want to manipulate the pixels of an original image and construct a new image from the manipulated pixel values. Thats the reason I used that.

Well, you said that the data would be in TYPE_INT_ARGB format for any color model type for input JPEG's. what if the input is bmps??

[toadaly]

Well, you said that the data would be in TYPE_INT_ARGB format for any color model type for input JPEG's. what if the input is bmps??

Any Image will be converted to ARGB format with the PixelGrabber constructor you are using. Since you are wanting to manipulate pixels, that's a good thing.

[sruthi_2009]

@toadaly

Thanks!

@anyone

OK. Well I have written a code as per the algorithm specified for steganography. It worked well for dummy pixel values which I gave.But on taking actual data from image, I am not getting the correct message while extracting.
Why is that? Any one got any ideas??
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[sruthi_2009]

hello all!!

I have manipulated the pixel values of an image and stored that image as a file.Now when I am extracting the pixels from the stored files, the pixels I have manipulated are not the same. I am getting some different values. why is this happening??

Anybody any ideas??
Please help me!! This is very urgent as I have to submit my project in a week and I am unable to figure this out!! :(
Any help is appreciated!!
Thank you

[DarrylBurke]

JPEG is a lossy compression.

db

[sruthi_2009]

@ Darryl
Thanks! I didnt know it would affect this. But my code is working fine for jpeg images. For BMP images - which is lossless compression, I am getting Null Pointer Exception. Why is that??

[toadaly]

@ Darryl
Thanks! I didnt know it would affect this. But my code is working fine for jpeg images. For BMP images - which is lossless compression, I am getting Null Pointer Exception. Why is that??

You need to be more specific and show your code. There could be 10,000 reaons for a NPE.