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Ricardo
Ricardo

Reputation: 379

Golang making RGBA images display weird colors

So I'm making some rgba images pixel by pixel following a certain pattern and saving them as png later on and noticed that when alpha channel es changed with certain colors it changes the whole pixel color when stored as png.

I made a test to show what is currently happening:

    img := image.NewRGBA(image.Rect(0, 0, 250, 250))
    for y := 0; y < height; y++ {
        for x := 0; x < width; x++ {
            f.Read(b)
            img.SetRGBA(x, y, color.RGBA{
                249,
                214,
                133,
                255,
            })
        }
    }
    var buff bytes.Buffer
    err := png.Encode(&buff, img)
    if err != nil {
        log.Println(err)
        return
    }

This will print an image of color #F9D685. But if I change alpha into 200 it will print another one with #6844BC and transparency instead of printing the original color with it's transparency.

Is there a way to solve this? I believe that it's because I'm missing something but can't really figure it out and didn't find anything similar to what's happening to me on google/here.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4017

Answers (1)

Volker
Volker

Reputation: 42433

That one is simple:

go doc color.RGBA

package color // import "image/color"

type RGBA struct {
    R, G, B, A uint8
}

RGBA represents a traditional 32-bit alpha-premultiplied color, having 8 bits for each of red, green, blue and alpha.

An alpha-premultiplied color component C has been scaled by alpha (A), so has valid values 0 <= C <= A.

You might be looking for color.NRGBA.

(Always, really always, consult the documentation of the involved types and functions. Always.)

Upvotes: 4

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