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antialiasing in java image scaling library


I am currently using http://code.google.com/p/java-image-scaling/ this library to generate scaled images for my web app.But when I scale down the image to about 100x100 size there are some leftover artifacts visible in some images. Is this an issue with antialiasing? And how do I use antialiasing with this library.The api documentation doesn't say any thing about it.

Here is the code

File f = new File("C:\\Users\\ad min\\Pictures\\30-whisky-3d-wallpaper-1152x864.jpg");
        BufferedImage src = ImageIO.read(f);

        //ResampleOp resampleOp = new ResampleOp(76, 76);
        ResampleOp resampleOp = new ResampleOp(200,200);
        resampleOp.setUnsharpenMask(AdvancedResizeOp.UnsharpenMask.VerySharp);
        BufferedImage rescaled = resampleOp.filter(src, null);

        ImageIO.write(rescaled, "JPG", new File(
                "C:\\Users\\ad min\\Pictures\\scaleddown.jpg"));

what am I doing wrong?


Solution

  • I finally didn't need antialiasing I simply used this code given in the foloowing link and it worked :) whewww

    http://www.universalwebservices.net/web-programming-resources/java/adjust-jpeg-image-

    compression-quality-when-saving-images-in-java
            Iterator<ImageWriter> iter = ImageIO
                    .getImageWritersByFormatName("jpeg");
            ImageWriter writer = (ImageWriter) iter.next();
            // instantiate an ImageWriteParam object with default compression
            // options
            ImageWriteParam iwp = writer.getDefaultWriteParam();
            iwp.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
            iwp.setCompressionQuality(1); // an integer between 0 and 1
            // 1 specifies minimum compression and maximum quality
            File file = new File("C:\\Users\\ad min\\Pictures\\scaleddown.jpg");
            FileImageOutputStream output = new FileImageOutputStream(file);
            writer.setOutput(output);
            IIOImage image = new IIOImage(rescaled, null, null);
            writer.write(null, image, iwp);
            writer.dispose();