Change Color

#1 Posted : Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:08:15 AM(UTC)

Annette

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I have a Black & White image (BitsPerPixel = 1).
How can I change Black to Red?

#2 Posted : Friday, March 10, 2017 3:02:12 PM(UTC)

Joe Z

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Annette,

To change your 1 BPP Black & White image to a Red & White image, you can use the RasterImage.GetPalette and RasterImage.SetPalette methods.

You first extract the current images palette and set that equal to a RasterColor array. This array now holds every unique color contained within the image. Since we are working with a 1 BPP image, the size of the array would be 2. Array index zero refers to the color white while array index one refers to the color black. Next we change the value at index one to RasterKnownColor.Red. This makes all pixels that were previously referring to the color black; now refer to the color red. Finally, we use the RasterColor array to set a new palette onto the image and save the result out.

I’ve included a snippet of code below so you can get a better understanding of this process.

C#

Code:

            using (RasterCodecs codecs = new RasterCodecs())
            {
                using (RasterImage image = codecs.Load(@"C:\Users\Public\Documents\LEADTOOLS Images\OCR1.TIF"))
                {
                    RasterColor[] pal = image.GetPalette();
                    int idx = 1; // if palette entry 1 is the black entry that you want to change
                    pal[idx] = RasterColor.FromKnownColor(RasterKnownColor.Red);
                    image.SetPalette(pal, 0, pal.Length);

                    codecs.Save(image, @"C:\Users\Desktop\result.png", RasterImageFormat.Png, 1);
                }
            }

Here are the before and after results from this process:
UserPostedImage

Edited by moderator Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:26:43 PM(UTC) | Reason: Not specified

Joe Zhan
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LEAD Technologies, Inc.


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