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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 11357

Cut out image in shape of text

I need to cut out an image in the shape of the text in another image. I think it's best shown in images.

This is a photo of a cat:

Photo of a nice cat

and this is the text I wish to cut out:

Text to cut out of the cat photo

The resulting image would be this:

Resulting cut-out of the cat photo

The text image will always be black with a transparent background, and the resulting cut-out should too have a transparent background. Both input images will also be the same size.

Upvotes: 46

Views: 13718

Answers (6)

Andrew Thompson
Andrew Thompson

Reputation: 168845

Cat text

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.File;

class PictureText {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        URL url = new URL("https://i.sstatic.net/Nqf3H.jpg");
        BufferedImage originalImage = ImageIO.read(url);
        final BufferedImage textImage = new BufferedImage(
            originalImage.getWidth(),
            originalImage.getHeight(),
            BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        Graphics2D g = textImage.createGraphics();
        FontRenderContext frc = g.getFontRenderContext();
        Font font = new Font(Font.SANS_SERIF, Font.BOLD, 250);
        GlyphVector gv = font.createGlyphVector(frc, "Cat");
        Rectangle2D box = gv.getVisualBounds();
        int xOff = 25+(int)-box.getX();
        int yOff = 80+(int)-box.getY();
        Shape shape = gv.getOutline(xOff,yOff);
        g.setClip(shape);
        g.drawImage(originalImage,0,0,null);
        g.setClip(null);
        g.setStroke(new BasicStroke(2f));
        g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        g.setRenderingHint(
            RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
            RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
        g.draw(shape);

        g.dispose();

        File file = new File("cat-text.png");
        ImageIO.write(textImage,"png",file);
        Desktop.getDesktop().open(file);
    }
}

Upvotes: 39

Gabriel Archanjo
Gabriel Archanjo

Reputation: 4597

You can do it in Java with just a few lines of source code, using Marvin Framework

enter image description here

source code:

public class CutAndFill {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // 1. Load images
        MarvinImage catImage = MarvinImageIO.loadImage("./res/catImage.jpg");
        MarvinImage catText = MarvinImageIO.loadImage("./res/catText.png");

        // 2. Load plug-in, set parameters and process de image
        MarvinImagePlugin combine = MarvinPluginLoader.loadImagePlugin("org.marvinproject.image.combine.combineByMask");
        combine.setAttribute("combinationImage", catImage);
        combine.setAttribute("colorMask", Color.black);
        combine.process(catText.clone(), catText);

        // 3. Save the output image.
        MarvinImageIO.saveImage(catText, "./res/catOut.jpg");
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

Briguy37
Briguy37

Reputation: 8412

First, make the black portion of the "Cat" image transparent. See here for help with this. Then, composite that image over the picture of your favorite cat (mine is Sheeba).

The nice thing about this is you can make the transparent text image once, save it, and then apply it to all of Sheeba's family and friends!

Upvotes: -1

Martijn Courteaux
Martijn Courteaux

Reputation: 68907

Create a new BufferedImage and iterate over all the pixels of word cat and if they are black, copy the cat-image pixels to the new image.

Here is some code: (Final working code, supports anti-alias)

public static BufferedImage textEffect(BufferedImage image, BufferedImage text) {
    if (image.getWidth() != text.getWidth() ||
        image.getHeight() != text.getHeight())
    {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Dimensions are not the same!");
    }
    BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(image.getWidth(),
                                          image.getHeight(),
                                          BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB_PRE);

    for (int y = 0; y < image.getHeight(); ++y) {
        for (int x = 0; x < image.getWidth(); ++x) {
           int textPixel = text.getRGB(x, y);
           int textAlpha = (textPixel & 0xFF000000);
           int sourceRGB = image.getRGB(x, y);
           int newAlpha = (int) (((textAlpha >> 24) * (sourceRGB >> 24)) / 255d);
           int imgPixel = (newAlpha << 24) |  (sourceRGB & 0x00FFFFFF);
           int rgb = imgPixel | textAlpha;
           img.setRGB(x, y, rgb);

        }
    }
    return img;
}

Upvotes: 21

Dr. belisarius
Dr. belisarius

Reputation: 61056

No java here, but the needed image operations are easy to understand. In Mathematica:

enter image description here

Upvotes: 8

StanislavL
StanislavL

Reputation: 57421

Use GlyphVector. Use Font class

public GlyphVector layoutGlyphVector(FontRenderContext frc,
                                         char[] text,
                                         int start,
                                         int limit,
                                         int flags) {

You can get outline Shape from glyph vector by public abstract Shape getOutline()

Assign the outline Shape as a clip to your Graphics instance.

Draw the image on the graphics.

Only clipped shape will be filled.

Upvotes: 15

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