I have been playing with some of the imaging functionality in Java, trying to superimpose one image over another. Like so:
BufferedImage background = javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(
new ByteArrayInputStream(getDataFromUrl(
"https://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif"
))
);
BufferedImage foreground = javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(
new ByteArrayInputStream(getDataFromUrl(
"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Sunflower_as_gif_small.gif"
))
);
WritableRaster backgroundRaster = background.getRaster();
Raster foregroundRaster = foreground.getRaster();
backgroundRaster.setRect(foregroundRaster);
Basically, I was attempting to superimpose this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Sunflower_as_gif_small.gif
on this: https://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif
The product appears as: https://i.sstatic.net/ep3XE.png
From the examples I have seen, this seems to be the appropriate method. Am I missing a step? Is there a better way to handle this? Thank you for your responses.
Seems I was going about this in all the wrong ways. This solution outlined on the Sun forums works perfectly (copied here):
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.*;
class TwoBecomeOne {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
BufferedImage large = ImageIO.read(new File("images/tiger.jpg"));
BufferedImage small = ImageIO.read(new File("images/bclynx.jpg"));
int w = large.getWidth();
int h = large.getHeight();
int type = BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB;
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(w, h, type);
Graphics2D g2 = image.createGraphics();
g2.drawImage(large, 0, 0, null);
g2.drawImage(small, 10, 10, null);
g2.dispose();
ImageIO.write(image, "jpg", new File("twoInOne.jpg"));
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, new ImageIcon(image), "",
JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
}
}