How to change the brightness of an Image

Question

My Question: I want to be able to change the brightness of a resource image and have three instances of it as ImageIcons. One at 50% brightness (so darker), ano

Answer 1

Basic logic is take RGB value of each pixel ,add some factor to it,set it again to resulltant matrix(Buffered Image)

    import java.io.*;
    import java.awt.Color;
    import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
    import java.io.*;
    import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;



        class psp{

    public static void main(String a[]){
    try{

    File input=new File("input.jpg");
    File output=new File("output1.jpg");
            BufferedImage picture1 = ImageIO.read(input);   // original
    BufferedImage picture2= new BufferedImage(picture1.getWidth(), picture1.getHeight(),BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);      
            int width  = picture1.getWidth();
            int height = picture1.getHeight();

    int factor=50;//chose it according to your need(keep it less than 100)
    for (int y = 0; y < height ; y++) {//loops for image matrix
    for (int x = 0; x < width ; x++) {

    Color c=new Color(picture1.getRGB(x,y));

    //adding factor to rgb values
int r=c.getRed()+factor;
    int b=c.getBlue()+factor;
    int g=c.getGreen()+factor;
    if (r >= 256) {
     r = 255;
    } else if (r < 0) {
    r = 0;
    }

    if (g >= 256) {
    g = 255;
    } else if (g < 0) {
    g = 0;
    }

     if (b >= 256) {
    b = 255;
    } else if (b < 0) {
    b = 0;
     }
    picture2.setRGB(x, y,new Color(r,g,b).getRGB());


    }
    }
     ImageIO.write(picture2,"jpg",output);       
    }catch(Exception e){
    System.out.println(e);
    }
     }}