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How can I add a border to an image in Java?

The border needs to be made out of the closest pixel of the given image, I saw some code online and came up with the following. What am I doing wrong? I'm new to java, and I am not allowed to use any methods.
/**
* TODO Method to be done. It contains some code that has to be changed
*
* #param enlargeFactorPercentage the border in percentage
* #param dimAvg the radius in pixels to get the average colour
* of each pixel for the border
*
* #return a new image extended with borders
*/
public static BufferedImage addBorders(BufferedImage image, int enlargeFactorPercentage, int dimAvg) {
// TODO method to be done
int height = image.getHeight();
int width = image.getWidth();
System.out.println("Image height = " + height);
System.out.println("Image width = " + width);
// create new image
BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(width, height, image.getType());
// copy image
for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) {
int pixelRGB = image.getRGB(x, y);
bi.setRGB(x, y, pixelRGB);
}
}
// draw top and bottom borders
// draw left and right borders
// draw corners
for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) {
int pixelRGB = image.getRGB(x, y);
for (enlargeFactorPercentage = 0; enlargeFactorPercentage < 10; enlargeFactorPercentage++){
bi.setRGB(width, enlargeFactorPercentage, pixelRGB * dimAvg);
bi.setRGB(enlargeFactorPercentage, height, pixelRGB * dimAvg);
}
}
}
return bi;

I am not allowed to use any methods.
What does that mean? How can you write code if you can't use methods from the API?
int enlargeFactorPercentage
What is that for? To me, enlarge means to make bigger. So if you have a factor of 10 and your image is (100, 100), then the new image would be (110, 110), which means the border would be 5 pixels?
Your code is creating the BufferedImage the same size as the original image. So does that mean you make the border 5 pixels and chop off 5 pixels from the original image?
Without proper requirements we can't help.
#return a new image extended with borders
Since you also have a comment that says "extended", I'm going to assume your requirement is to return the larger image.
So the solution I would use is to:
create the BufferedImage at the increased size
get the Graphics2D object from the BufferImage
fill the entire BufferedImage with the color you want for the border using the Graphics2D.fillRect(….) method
paint the original image onto the enlarged BufferedImage using the Graphics2D.drawImage(…) method.

Hello and welcome to stackoverflow!
Not sure what you mean with "not allowed using methods". Without methods you can not even run a program because the "thing" with public static void main(String[] args) is a method (the main method) and you need it, because it is the program starting point...
But to answer your question:
You have to load your image. A possibility would be to use ImageIO. Then you create a 2D graphics object and then you can to drawRectangle() to create a border rectangle:
BufferedImage bi = //load image
Graphics2D g = bi.getGraphics();
g.drawRectangle(0, 0, bi.getHeight(), bi.getWidth());
This short code is just a hint. Try it out and read the documentation from Bufferedimage see here and from Graphics2D
Edit: Please notice that this is not quite correct. With the code above you overdraw the outer pixel-line from the image. If you don't want to cut any pixel of, then you have to scale it up and draw with bi.getHeight()+2 and bi.getWidth()+2. +2 because you need one pixel more at each side of the image.

How to zoom a buffered image?

I am trying to create a Plagiarism checker software. Till now I have created a buffered Image which converts any text written in an text area into a png,jpg,jpeg, gif format.
When I open the image text written inside the image is shown too small and it is shown properly only when I manually zoom my screen from keyboard or Mouse.
I have tried several techniques to zoom out or reposition the image but failed. How could I achieve a zoomed in image?
Here is my Code.
String text = textArea.getText();
Font font = new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 40);
FontRenderContext frc = new FontRenderContext(null, true, true);
//get the height and width of the text
Rectangle2D bounds = font.getStringBounds(text, frc);
int w = (int) bounds.getWidth();
int h = (int) bounds.getHeight();
String[] parts = text.split("\n");
//create a BufferedImage object
BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(w, h * parts.length, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
//calling createGraphics() to get the Graphics2D
Graphics2D g = img.createGraphics();
//set color and other parameters
g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
g.setFont(font);
int index = 0;
for(String part : parts){
g.drawString(part, 4000, h * index++);
}
g.dispose();

Removing BufferedImage pixel values and or setting them transparent

I have been working with the polygon class and trying to set the pixel values inside of the polygon to transparent or remove them all together if this is possible, however I have hit a bit of a wall as I am trying to store the values as RGB int values and don't know how I would be able to make a pixel transparent/removed via this method.
Additionally to this I would also like to do the same thing but keeping pixels inside the polygon and deleting those outside if possible in order to be left with only the pixels contained within the polygon. I have searched around for this before but to no avail.
I did attempt to create a SSCCE for this to make it easier to work with and view for anyone taking the time to help however as its part of a much larger programme that I am working on creating one is proving to take some time, however once I have one working to better demonstrate this problem I will edit this post.
Thank you to anyone for taking the time to help me with this problem
Below I have some code for what I am currently using to segment the pixels that are contained within an already specified polygon. This is extremely similar to the way i do it for setting pixels outside the polygon to transparent only with the if statement arguments swapped around to remove a segment of the image and haveing a return for newImage rather than save image stuff and it works perfectly, however when I do it this way to save the pixels contained in the polygon it doesn't save for some reason.
public void saveSegment(int tabNum, BufferedImage img) {
segmentation = new GUI.Segmentation();
Polygon p = new Polygon();
Color pixel;
p = createPolygon(segmentation);
int height = img.getHeight();
int width = img.getWidth();
newImage = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
//loop through the image to fill the 2d array up with the segmented pixels
for(int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
for(int x = 0; x < width; x++) {
//If the pixel is inside polygon
if(p.contains(x, y) == true) {
pixel = new Color(img.getRGB(x, y));
//set pixel equal to the RGB value of the pixel being looked at
int r = pixel.getRed(); // red component 0...255
int g = pixel.getGreen(); // green component 0...255
int b = pixel.getBlue(); // blue component 0...255
int a = pixel.getAlpha(); // alpha (transparency) component 0...255
int col = (a << 24) | (r << 16) | (g << 8) | b;
newImage.setRGB(x, y, col);
}
else {
pixel = new Color(img.getRGB(x, y));
int a = 0; // alpha (transparency) component 0...255
int col = (a << 24);
newImage.setRGB(x, y, col);
}
}
}
try {
//then save as image once all in correct order
ImageIO.write(newImage, "bmp", new File("saved-Segment.bmp"));
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "New image saved successfully");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

An easier way is to use Java2D's clipping capability:
BufferedImage cutHole(BufferedImage image, Polygon holeShape) {
BufferedImage newImage = new BufferedImage(
image.getWidth(), image.getHeight(), image.getType());
Graphics2D g = newImage.createGraphics();
Rectangle entireImage =
new Rectangle(image.getWidth(), image.getHeight());
Area clip = new Area(entireImage);
clip.subtract(new Area(holeShape));
g.clip(clip);
g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);
g.dispose();
return newImage;
}
BufferedImage clipToPolygon(BufferedImage image, Polygon polygon) {
BufferedImage newImage = new BufferedImage(
image.getWidth(), image.getHeight(), image.getType());
Graphics2D g = newImage.createGraphics();
g.clip(polygon);
g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);
g.dispose();
return newImage;
}

Creating 3x3 checkerboard over a picture using Graphics2D

I want to create an overlay of a 3x3 checkerboard, where the non-solid squares should be transparent.
I don't want to iterate the pixels, but rather just draw squares using Graphics2D to create a checkerboard. (Do I need a for loop, an if statement, or both?)
Here's my code so far:
Picture myPict = new Picture(myPathName);
myPict.show();
Graphics2D graphicsObj = myPict.getGraphics2D();
final int WIDTH = myPict.getWidth() / 3;
final int HEIGHT = myPict.getHeight() / 3;
for (int i = 0; i > WIDTH; i = WIDTH * 2) {
Rectangle2D.Double shape1 = new Rectangle2D.Double(WIDTH, HEIGHT, 0, 0);
graphicsObj.draw(shape1);
}

I'd use a combined (double) for loop/if statement for drawing the solid parts of the checkerboard. In pseudo-code it might be expressed as:
draw image
for each row {
for each column {
if 'odd' square number {
graphics fill rectangle
}
}
}

Drawing on a transparent image using Java SWT

How do I create an in-memory fully transparent SWT image and draw a black line on it with antialias enabled?
I expect the result to include only black color and alpha values ranging from 0 to 255 due to antialias...
I googled and tried everything that I could... is this possible at all?

This is how I did and it works:
Image src = new Image(null, 16, 16);
ImageData imageData = src.getImageData();
imageData.transparentPixel = imageData.getPixel(0, 0);
src.dispose();
Image icon = new Image(null, imageData);
//draw on the icon with gc

I was able to make this work, although it feels a bit hacky:
Display display = Display.getDefault();
int width = 10;
int height = 10;
Image canvas = new Image(display, width, height);
GC gc = new GC(canvas);
gc.setAntialias(SWT.ON);
// This sets the alpha on the entire canvas to transparent
gc.setAlpha(0);
gc.fillRectangle(0, 0, width, height);
// Reset our alpha and draw a line
gc.setAlpha(255);
gc.setForeground(display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_BLACK));
gc.drawLine(0, 0, width, height);
// We're done with the GC, so dispose of it
gc.dispose();
ImageData canvasData = canvas.getImageData();
canvasData.alphaData = new byte[width * height];
// This is the hacky bit that is making assumptions about
// the underlying ImageData. In my case it is 32 bit data
// so every 4th byte in the data array is the alpha for that
// pixel...
for (int idx = 0; idx < (width * height); idx++) {
int coord = (idx * 4) + 3;
canvasData.alphaData[idx] = canvasData.data[coord];
}
// Now that we've set the alphaData, we can create our
// final image
Image finalImage = new Image(canvasData);
// And get rid of the canvas
canvas.dispose();
After this, finalImage can be drawn into a GC with drawImage and the transparent parts will be respected.

I made it by allocating an ImageData, making it transparent then creating the Image from the data :
static Image createTransparentImage(Display display, int width, int height) {
// allocate an image data
ImageData imData = new ImageData(width, height, 24, new PaletteData(0xff0000,0x00ff00, 0x0000ff));
imData.setAlpha(0, 0, 0); // just to force alpha array allocation with the right size
Arrays.fill(imData.alphaData, (byte) 0); // set whole image as transparent
// Initialize image from transparent image data
return new Image(display, imData);
}

To scale with transparency, I've found that I have to manually set the alpha byte array as shown below. So the alpha ends up with nearest-neighbor anti aliasing.
public static Image scaleImage(Device device, Image orig, int scaledWidth, int scaledHeight) {
Rectangle origBounds = orig.getBounds();
if (origBounds.width == scaledWidth && origBounds.height == scaledHeight) {
return orig;
}
ImageData origData = orig.getImageData();
ImageData imData = new ImageData(scaledWidth, scaledHeight, origData.depth, origData.palette);
if (origData.alphaData != null) {
imData.alphaData = new byte[imData.width * imData.height];
for (int row = 0; row < imData.height; row++) {
for (int col = 0; col < imData.width; col++) {
int origRow = row * origData.height / imData.height;
int origCol = col * origData.width / imData.width;
byte origAlpha = origData.alphaData[origRow * origData.width + origCol];
imData.alphaData[row * imData.width + col] = origAlpha;
}
}
}
final Image scaled = new Image(device, imData);
GC gc = new GC(scaled);
gc.setAntialias(SWT.ON);
gc.setInterpolation(SWT.HIGH);
gc.setBackground(device.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_WHITE));
gc.fillRectangle(0, 0, scaledWidth, scaledHeight);
gc.drawImage(orig, 0, 0, origBounds.width, origBounds.height, 0, 0, scaledWidth, scaledHeight);
gc.dispose();
return scaled;
}