Drawing monochrome/alpha channel sprites in different colors

[kjkrum]

Say I have one BufferedImage that is my canvas, and another BufferedImage that is a sprite sheet. I understand how to draw part of the sprite sheet onto the canvas. But I can't figure out how to draw the sprites in different colors, using the sprite sheet as an alpha mask.

Any pointers?

[DarrylBurke]

Would Graphics#setColor(...) followed by Graphics#setXORMode() do it?

If you can use JavaFX, it has Effects for this kind of stuff (javafx.scene.effect.ColorAdjust)

db