How to replace color with another color in BufferedImage

Question

So I have an image file that has a volcano on it. Everything else is 0xFFFF00FF (opaque magenta). I want to replace every pixel that contains that color with 0 (transparent)

Answer 1

While I haven't had a chance to test this thoroughly yet, using a LookupOp may well benefit from acceleration:

public class ColorMapper
extends LookupTable {

    private final int[] from;
    private final int[] to;

    public ColorMapper(Color from,
                       Color to) {
        super(0, 4);

        this.from = new int[] {
            from.getRed(),
            from.getGreen(),
            from.getBlue(),
            from.getAlpha(),
        };
        this.to = new int[] {
            to.getRed(),
            to.getGreen(),
            to.getBlue(),
            to.getAlpha(),
        };
    }

    @Override
    public int[] lookupPixel(int[] src,
                             int[] dest) {
        if (dest == null) {
            dest = new int[src.length];
        }

        int[] newColor = (Arrays.equals(src, from) ? to : src);
        System.arraycopy(newColor, 0, dest, 0, newColor.length);

        return dest;
    }
}

Using it is as easy as creating a LookupOp:

Color from = Color.decode("#ff00ff");
Color to = new Color(0, true);
BufferedImageOp lookup = new LookupOp(new ColorMapper(from, to), null);
BufferedImage convertedImage = lookup.filter(image, null);