When scaling transparent png images, the colors are being negated. about thumbnailator

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thank you for reporting the issue.

I've tried to resize the provided PNG to a JPEG, but have not been able to 
reproduce the color distortion. 

My environment is as follows:

* Thumbnailator 0.3.9
* Windows XP
* Java 1.6.0_21

The code that was used was:

  Thumbnails.of("images/pic_admin.png")
    .size(200, 200)
    .outputFormat("jpg")
    .toFile("images/Result.jpg");

Could you provide the code used to produce the JPEG with the color distortion?

Thank you!

Original comment by [email protected] on 23 Sep 2011 at 3:27

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I'm not using the from file to file method, but taking a byte array and 
returning one.

InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(imageByteArray);

final BufferedImage bufferedImage = 
Thumbnails.of(inputStream).outputFormat("jpg").size(200, 200).asBufferedImage();

ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
imageIO.write(bufferedImage, "jpg", outputStream);

return outputStream.toByteArray();

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Sep 2011 at 8:30

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thank you for the follow up.

I was able to get an image with color distortion using the following, based on 
the information I got from your code:

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  BufferedImage bufferedImage =
    Thumbnails.of(new FileInputStream("images/pic_admin.png"))
      .outputFormat("jpg")
      .size(200, 200)
      .asBufferedImage();

  ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, "jpg", new FileOutputStream("images/Result.jpg"));

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It appears that the issue here is that you're using the `ImageIO.write` method 
to write the `BufferedImage` to the `ByteArrayOutputStream`.

It turns out, the JPEG codec that is provided with Image I/O will create JPEG 
images with transparency, but many applications will not recognize the 
transparency and will display with distorted colors. (The image with the 
transparency that is provided to the codec in this case is the `BufferedImage` 
from Thumbnailator.)

(If you're interested, refer to the following link for more information: 
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4836466)

To get around this problem, Thumbnailator internally removes the transparency 
before saving the image to a JPEG, which avoids the color distortion issue.

So, this is not quite an issue with Thumbnailator, but an issue with how the 
`ImageIO` class is being used.

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The following code should create an image which will not exhibit the color 
distortion problem:

  ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

  Thumbnails.of(new ByteArrayInputStream(imageByteArray))
    .outputFormat("jpg")
    .size(200, 200)
    .toOutputStream(outputStream);

  return baos.toByteArray();

Please let me know if that will solve the issue.

Original comment by [email protected] on 1 Oct 2011 at 4:57

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Solved the issue!
Thanks :)

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Oct 2011 at 11:26

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Good to hear it worked out. :)

I'll be closing this issue, as it doesn't require any work on Thumbnailator.

Original comment by [email protected] on 29 Oct 2011 at 11:02

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