Gettin Pixel data from png image

Hi,
Has anyone worked with the byte data returned my the getSnapshot() method of the VideoControl (MMAPI). I believe the default is png( i have tested this on Nokia 3650 and 6600 and on Siemens SX1).
In all the devices that support Nokia UI library i can get the pixel values from the byte data by using the com.nokia.mid.ui library, specifically the DirectGraphics.getPixels() method.
In MIDP 2.0 devices i can do this using the Image.getRGB method.
But what about MIDP 1.0.3 devices that do not have the Nokia library ? i believe that the byte data returned by the camera is of raw png format. I have never done this before and so far my search on the web has not been fruitful.
Can anyone point me to information abt the raw png Image (number of bytes of header ... etc) so that i can write my own code to extract the information or better yet point me to the code that does this.

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Ok, for a start I will give some general description about the application I made.
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So I need to ask you guys for opinion or help me find the part where I actually did wrongly and caused the image pixel value to change.
Thanks. Please proceed and read below for the codes that I used. It is messy and I will sort it out later.
When alpha is set as 1 the barcode will appear to be overwrite onto the image. But when alpha is set as 0.1 the barcode will appear to be transparent and almost seems to be not there on the image when embedded.
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          System.out.println("Watermark green pixel: "+watermarkRGB[1]);
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          double imgGreenValue = (double) imagePixelValue[1];
          double imgBlueValue = (double) imagePixelValue[2];
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          double wmGreenValue = (double) watermarkPixelValue[1];
          double wmBlueValue = (double) watermarkPixelValue[2];
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          double embeddedGreen = ((1.0 - alpha) * imgGreenValue) + (alpha * wmGreenValue);
          double embeddedBlue = ((1.0 - alpha) * imgBlueValue) + (alpha * wmBlueValue);
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          int embeddedGreenValue = (int) embeddedGreen;
          int embeddedBlueValue = (int) embeddedBlue;
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               int yValue = Integer.parseInt(yCoordinate);
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                    int imageHeight = image.getHeight();
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                    int totalHeight = watermarkHeight + yValue;
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                         for (int h = yValue ; h < totalHeight; h++){
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                                   int[] imagePixelValue = getImagePixelValue(image, w, h);
                                   int[] watermarkPixelValue = getWatermarkPixelValue(watermark, wCounter, hCounter);
                                   int[] embeddedPixelRGBValue = getEmbeddedPixelValue(imagePixelValue, watermarkPixelValue, alphaDouble);
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                                   setGreen(image, w, h, embeddedPixelRGBValue[1]);
                                   setBlue(image, w, h, embeddedPixelRGBValue[2]);
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                                        wCounter = 0;
                                        hCounter++;
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               File inputImage = new File("removalTesting.jpg");
               //File inputWatermark = new File(watermarkPath);
               //Used a defined barcode for testing of removing barcode from embedded image
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               catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
                    System.out.println("NumberFormatException: " + nfe.getMessage());
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               //alphaDouble = 0.5;
               //Create x and y value for the starting coordinates of barcode embedded in the embedded image
               int xValue = 0;
               int yValue = 0;
               int wCounter = 0;
               int hCounter = 0;
               try{
                    //Define selected image as testPic and make java read the file selected
                    BufferedImage image= ImageIO.read(inputImage);
                    BufferedImage watermark= ImageIO.read(inputWatermark);
                    //Get height and width value from the selected image
                    int imageWidth = image.getWidth();
                    int imageHeight = image.getHeight();
                    //Get height and width value from the selected barcode
                    int watermarkWidth = watermark.getWidth();
                    int watermarkHeight = watermark.getHeight();
                    int totalWidth = watermarkWidth + xValue;
                    int totalHeight = watermarkHeight + yValue;
                    //Use nested for loop to get RGB value from every pixel that the barcode had been embedded in the embedded image
                    if(totalWidth <= imageWidth && totalHeight <= imageHeight){
                         for (int h = yValue ; h < totalHeight; h++){
                              for (int w = xValue; w < totalWidth; w++){
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                                   int[] watermarkPixelValue = getWatermarkPixelValue(watermark, wCounter, hCounter);
                                   int[] removedPixelRGBValue = getOriginalImagePixelValue(imagePixelValue, watermarkPixelValue, alphaDouble);
                                   setRed(image, w, h, removedPixelRGBValue[0]);
                                   setGreen(image, w, h, removedPixelRGBValue[1]);
                                   setBlue(image, w, h, removedPixelRGBValue[2]);
                                   wCounter++;
                                   if(wCounter == watermarkWidth){
                                        wCounter = 0;
                                        hCounter++;
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                    imageIcon = new ImageIcon(tempImage);
                    labelImage.setIcon(imageIcon);
                    imagePanel.add(labelImage);
                    container.add(imagePanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
                    setVisible(true);
                    System.out.println("Embedding completed");
               catch(Exception errorEmbedding){
                    //If there is any error, the try and catch function will tell you the error
                    System.out.println("The following error occured: "+errorEmbedding);
          }Sorry if the codes are in a mess, I did not had the time to sort it out yet but most likely do it when I got the removal of barcode done.
Follow this link to have a look of the result I see in my application when I got the barcode embedded into the image I selected:
[http://img356.imageshack.us/my.php?image=beforeremovalresultmg2.jpg]
Follow this link to have a look of the result I see in my application after I got the barcode removed:
[http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=removalresultmx4.jpg]
As you can see from the link, after I remove the barcode from the image. Some of the pixel actually went back to normal in the barcode area when the the barcode is embedded into the image. But some pixel in the barcode area had its value changed due to compression when I save the image file I think.
Anyone can help me find out the problem?
Thanks.

KamenRider wrote:
I suspect the problem lies in the code when I save the image. Because people said that PNG was loseless compression but when I saved in PNG some of the pixel went back to normal while some did not. This is obviously the cause from changing of pixel value when I saved the image.You are almost certainly wrong. This is trivially easy to check. Print out the color of a certain pixel immediately before you save it. Open the saved PNG in your favorite image manipulation program and check the saved value of that same pixel. When you re-load the saved PNG, print out the color again. It should be unchanged.
Thanks you for trying to help me spot the problem but the formula is correct. The alpha value i used in my application is used to set the transparency of the barcode that will be embedded in the image. Hence, when alpha = 1 the new pixel value should be the barcode value. ^^The formula isn't wrong, it's just not doing what you think it's doing. Remember that you're working with ints here, not floating point numbers, so they have finite precision. When you case from double to int, fractions are dropped. As morgalr pointed out, your formula is:
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How to get the pixel data so as to work on it?

Hi all,
I am trying to write a plug-in that will crop and scale the image, edit the selection in the image document based on image data. For this purpose I need the pixel data of the image. How to get the image data as different pixels and what is the data structure used to store this data?
Assumption: No layers i.e., only background
Thanks in advance,
Sailu

Hi Ilya,
Thank you for your post. In the plugin architecture you propose (automation + filter), do you have an idea about how to share the pixel data between the two plugins? I have found a post that gives details about how to get pixel data and show it using ADM components
Matthew Hollingworth, "ADM Color Managed Preview?" #1, 22 Oct 2007 11:53 pm but it supposes that you have a filter plug-in.
Again, does anyone knows how to preview the current image in a AUTOMATION plug in? This seems impossible.
Thank you all for your help
Cheers,
Chaker

Black background for transparent PNG images - Xcelsius 2008 SP4

Hi Experts,
I am using Xcelsius 2008 SP4. I have used Image component to show a PNG image with transparent background. When I export the flash, the image is being shown with a black background.
In Xcelsius 2008 SP3, this problem was not there. I am facing this issue after installing SP4.
Did anyone else face similar issue ? Is there any workaround ?
regards,
pasg

Hi all,
I was facing the very same issue. I succeeded in finding a solution to it. This is happening coz of the dimension and pixels of the .png image. I imported the image in the image component, which had the dimensions, 175 x 70, and was of 9.26 kb and the black background was visible. I then changed the dimension of the image to 428 x 140, and 19.2 kb (double the size), and VOILA!! to my surprise IT WORKED !
Don’t forget to “check” the “embed file” and “Hide SWF Background Color” check boxes in the image component's, general tab.
Try the same, I hope this helps.
Regards,
Sara

Removing all the hidden data from photos

If I export a photo to share, I often want to remove all the extra hidden stored data such as date taken exposures etc. Is this easy?
Rod

Hi rod,
By accident I found that a little app I use (ImageWell) to add connotations and text to my screenshots also strips most if not all the EXIF data from an image that you drag out of the Image well.
I just checked it out again. I dragged an image into the well, changed the name of the image and dragged it out. The EXIF data was gone when I opened it with Preview and did Tools/Get info.
ImageWell

Data from my old sync account (the one used on firefox 28) got replaced by data from my new sync account (the one used on firefox 34)

Disaster step by step:
1. Run old Firefox 28, using a separate profile named "Firefox 28", and log in to my old sync account (the one used on Firefox 28). In the old sync account i have saved tons of useful bookmarks and data. Got a device name "Admin's Firefox on HP-Laptop".
2. Check all my old bookmarks and they are fine. Stupid of me i didn't make a backup at that point.
3. Run new Firefox 34.0.5, using a separate profile named "default", and log in to my new sync account (the one used on Firefox 29 and on). In the new sync account i have saved a few bookmarks only. Got a device name "Admin's Firefox on HP-Laptop" again. Stupid of me i didn't pick another name. Didn't imagine what was about to happen.
4. What happened: All of my precious data which was stored on the old sync account got replaced by the few bookmarks of the new sync account. And by replaced i mean replaced ON THE SYNC SERVER. Now the old sync server has the very little data of the new sync account and i have lost all my precious data!!!
That little bug of Firefox cost me all of my data on the server.
People, please help me find a solution to recover my data that was stored on the old sync server and got replaced. I have no backup of the lost bookmarks nor backup of a profile that contains them.
P.S.: I used the default setting to sync, which was to merge data.
P.S.2: I don't maintain a personal old Firefox Sync server.
Who is the administrator of the old sync server maintained by Mozilla? Does he keep image backup? Maybe he could extract my data from an image backup. A pre-today date would be fine!

Hi,
Unfortunately Sync does not backup. However in Windows 7 you can right click on the profile folder and select to restore to a previous version.
I hope this helps, and I am very sorry about the lost data.

Captivate 5 - Inserted PNG images from Fireworks are pixelated

The PNG images I inserted from Fireworks are showing up pixelated when I play the file in a browser, but look fine while I'm working in Captivate. Any thoughts?
THANKS!
Birgit

Hello,
Did you try changing the publish quality? Because of the fact that CP when converting to SWF will still be doing some compression, I really would give that first of all a try.
PNG allows even partial transparency, and certainly its 24-bit version. That is one of the reasons that it is superior to JPEG (no transparency) and GIF (only 100% transparency). But I'm not really used to Fireworks, always using Photoshop for graphical assets.
Lilybiri

I am trying to use photomerge compose. I open one standard jpeg image and one image that is my business logo in a png format. When I select the png image, to extract the logo from it, it appears as all white and will not allow me to select the logo from

I am trying to use photomerge compose. I open one standard jpeg image and one image that is my business logo in a png format. When I select the png image, to extract the logo from it, it appears as all white and will not allow me to select the logo from it. It has worked in the past but I downloaded the update today and photomerge will not work correctly. Any ideas?

hedger,
How do you expect anyone to help when we don't know a darned thing about the file, abut your setup, exact version of Photoshop and your OS, machine specs, etc.?
BOILERPLATE TEXT:
Note that this is boilerplate text.
If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CS6", but something like CS6v.13.0.6) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far,
what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
a screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too.
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
Thanks!

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