Set BufferedImage to be a color in Java

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Lily picture Lily · Sep 17, 2009 · Viewed 43.2k times · Source

I need to create a rectangular BufferedImage with a specified background color, draw some pattern on the background and save it to file. I don't know how to create the background.

I am using a nested loop:

BufferedImage b_img = ...
for every row
for every column
setRGB(r,g,b);

But it's very slow when the image is large.

How to set the color in a more efficient way?

Answer

Pete Kirkham picture Pete Kirkham · Sep 17, 2009

Get the graphics object for the image, set the current paint to the desired colour, then call fillRect(0,0,width,height). 

BufferedImage b_img = ...
Graphics2D    graphics = b_img.createGraphics();

graphics.setPaint ( new Color ( r, g, b ) );
graphics.fillRect ( 0, 0, b_img.getWidth(), b_img.getHeight() );

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