Image cropping

[pads]

Hi All,

I want to cut a particular shape of an image in java, for example an image which contains a man with white background, here I want to crop the man without the background. Don't want to make it as transparent image, want to cut with some coordinates. I think using the cropImageFilter we can only cut the rectangle region. Can anyone tel me how to do this?

Thanks is advance.

[Norm]

Don't want to make it as transparent image, want to cut with some coordinates

I don't know that you can have a none rectangular image. You want to have a polygon?
What's wrong with using transparent pixels for the jagged spots?

[pads]

I don't know that you can have a none rectangular image. You want to have a polygon?
What's wrong with using transparent pixels for the jagged spots?

can u please tel me how to convert a normal image into a transparent image?

[Maxideon]

1) Create a cropped BufferedImage of type INT_RGBA or 4BYTE_ABGR. All the pixels in this new image will already be transparent black.

2) Get a graphics object from this new BufferedImage and set the graphic's clip to the shape in question. You will have to translate the shape to the coordinate space of the new image.

3) Draw the old image onto the new image.

4) Dispose of graphics object.

You can also achieve a near identical effect using just the original image if that image allows for alpha values. It just wont be cropped.