For example, I have a transparent png file, the shape is a car.
In the png file, I only draw the white border shape.
Outside and inside the border are all transparent.
I want to use actionscript3 code to show the car object with different color, it means only fill color inside the border, and for the outside of the border, keep transparent.
How to do that?
So far, the simplest workaround is to prepare many images with PhotoShop, but it's not good enough for me. When I have many shapes and use many colors, I've to prepare many many images.
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(Because I'm using white border, you may not see the basic png file if your background of browser is white)
Change my boarder of shape to black, hope this is helpful to understand my question.
Since you're working with loaded images/pixels you can make use of BitmapData's floodFill() which pretty much does what you need. There's an example in bellow the method description as well.
It does pretty much what you need, although in some cases it might not be perfect. It's worth having a look at Jan's optimizing the floodFill() method article which goes more in depth.
A simple solution is to use multiple layers. The top layer would contain just the border. The lower layer would contain just the car with no border. You can adjust the colour of the car layer using a ColorTransform or ColorMatrixFilter.
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Simple I have UIImageView icon with two people and it looks like this:
but when I set tintColor to red it looks like this:
Is there any way to avoid covering every non zero-alpha pixel? I need to show the tie really there. One time I need people red, other time green.
The icon is simple png file. Rounded circle is simple background color of UIImageView. So the part of the image with tie cannot be zero-alpha.
Is there any way to achieve such effect WITHOUT creating images for every color?
This was similar to another idea I had been playing around with, so I did a little more fiddling...
Starting with these 3 images:
and then using them as .withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate) to give the desired colors... and then layering them via CALayer to get:
and an "exploded" view for clarity...
Create an image where the "people" are 100% transparent - effectively "holes" in the image.
Set the background color of the UIImageView to be the "fill" color.
You can still mask it with a circle (CAShapeLayer, for example), if you don't want a white bounding-box as part of the image.
Original images:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/eFrmB.png
https://i.stack.imgur.com/2GNDX.png
Use the CISpotColor filter:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Reference/CoreImageFilterReference/#//apple_ref/doc/filter/ci/CISpotColor
This allows you to specify a color in your image that is to be changed into another color. Thus, since you know the original color of the tie and the background, you can change either of them, or both, in a single move.
Hello: Currently in my project, I'm using OBShapedButton to process touches on a lot of objects that overlap (it's a map with each territory its own separate object). Basically, this library prevents a touch from being processed on a transparent point on the given view.
I'm attempting to add a border effect to just the edges of the opaque part of the UIImage (and adding a semi-transparent overlay above that). Something to the effect of this:
Which can be simplified to this (example of one image):
I am currently using MGImageUtilities to color in the opaque parts of territories using this line:
[territory setImage:[[territory image] imageTintedWithColor:tint]];
The problem is that I'm not sure how to just color the borders (which can be any shape). I've looked at this link already, but haven't been able to come up with anything.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Terribly hacky, but use MGImageUtilities' UIImage+ProportionalFill with scale resizing to create a slightly larger image, UIImage+Tint to red, and stack below.
The library you are using doesn't actually specify a shape layer. It uses alpha values from the PNGs that you give it.
Could you use a different 'highlighted' or 'selected' PNG that adds the border effect you are looking for?
Otherwise, it you will have to generate a UIBezierPath from your PNG image, which sounds like a very computationally intensive operation. At that point, I might question whether this library meets your needs.
I have been working with OpenGL in iOS, and setting the colors with glColor4f(r,g,b,a) and then drawing my own color on a white UIImageView. I basically have a brush, which is then moved around my user's touch, and then it paints the color onto the canvas. But this color needs to be water paint (like smudged color)
Does anyone understand/knows how to get a water color like this app does, and how the background UIImageView has a texture on it?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hello-watercolor/id539414526?mt=8
or checkout water paint in this. http://www.fiftythree.com/paper
I created a bounty on this as I am really having a hard time to grasp how to derive such smooth flowing colors out of the normal colors. Even if you guys point me in the right direction, or to some sample code on how I can get the effect of water-paint, it would be really helpful ^_^
And as a bonus, it would be also be helpful if you can point out to me how to get canvas on which it is painted on looks realistic, and blended with the paint? Does Blending/GLSL have to do with any of this?
Is there any sample project on this?
If you are still struggling with the basics of getting realistic looking water colors working, you may want to experiment/prototype in photoshop first.
http://www.zoepiel.com/tutorials/watercolor/ shows some very effective tricks for creating watercolor images with simple tools.
The most interesting one is to multiply a group of watercolor layers with a greyscale watercolor paper image. The texture of the paper makes some parts remain white, and other parts saturate with color, just like real watercolor.
Each layer remains 'wet' in the sense that the colors within it blend, but the layers are 'dry' with respect to each other.
She also explains some of her brush and blur settings and shows what they do.
Once you can produce the desired effect in photoshop, you'll have clear specifications of what you want to do and you'll be quite a bit closer to programming it out.
Looking at the examples you posted, it looks like they are using a simple Gaussian Blur with a radius of double your brush size. This may be an incomplete solution, but it's at least the first level.
I have been working with OpenGL in iOS, and setting the colors with glColor4f(r,g,b,a) and then drawing my own color on a white UIImageView. I basically have a brush, which is then moved around my user's touch, and then it paints the color onto the canvas. But this color needs to be water paint (like smudged color)
Does anyone understand/knows how to get a water color like this app does, and how the background UIImageView has a texture on it?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hello-watercolor/id539414526?mt=8
or checkout water paint in this. http://www.fiftythree.com/paper
I created a bounty on this as I am really having a hard time to grasp how to derive such smooth flowing colors out of the normal colors. Even if you guys point me in the right direction, or to some sample code on how I can get the effect of water-paint, it would be really helpful ^_^
And as a bonus, it would be also be helpful if you can point out to me how to get canvas on which it is painted on looks realistic, and blended with the paint? Does Blending/GLSL have to do with any of this?
Is there any sample project on this?
If you are still struggling with the basics of getting realistic looking water colors working, you may want to experiment/prototype in photoshop first.
http://www.zoepiel.com/tutorials/watercolor/ shows some very effective tricks for creating watercolor images with simple tools.
The most interesting one is to multiply a group of watercolor layers with a greyscale watercolor paper image. The texture of the paper makes some parts remain white, and other parts saturate with color, just like real watercolor.
Each layer remains 'wet' in the sense that the colors within it blend, but the layers are 'dry' with respect to each other.
She also explains some of her brush and blur settings and shows what they do.
Once you can produce the desired effect in photoshop, you'll have clear specifications of what you want to do and you'll be quite a bit closer to programming it out.
Looking at the examples you posted, it looks like they are using a simple Gaussian Blur with a radius of double your brush size. This may be an incomplete solution, but it's at least the first level.
Does anyone know if it's possible to have a gradient created using Fireworks to be really transparent at the bottom?
I'm trying to create a gradient which is truly transparent at the bottom, so it can be placed on top of another image. As far as I'm aware, even though the opacity of the bottom is 0, I still have to select a color for the bottom. This makes the top color blend into it (like below it's blending into white). So whenever the image is placed over a dark image the bottom is transparent but still white.
Hope that makes sense. Thanks for the help.
I usually achieve this effect by setting both color endpoints of the gradient to the same color, then adjusting the opacity endpoint to 0% (or whatever you want).
Here's the result: This is #666/100% to #666/0% on the left, #666/100% to white/0% on the right.
I was having the same problem you should try working with auto vector masks
Command>Creative>Auto Vector Mask
Great little tutorial here
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=b5f64
How are you defining "really transparent"?
You must choose a linear gradient, then a colour at each end of the gradient, and then make one end opacity 0%. It doesn't matter if it is a colour or not, you make it invisible anyway.
If you are comparing it to something like Photoshop or Illustrator, yes it's annoying that Adobe cannot be consistent with how each application handles opacity, but in Fireworks, it's still the same effect, just a different method of doing it.