I am reading pixel color in a BufferedImage as follows:
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InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream(conn.getInputStream());
BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(is);
int color = image.getRGB(x, y);
int red = (colour & 0x00ff0000) >> 16;
int green = (colour & 0x0000ff00) >> 8;
int blue = colour & 0x000000ff;
Now this works fine except for png's with transparency. I find that if x,y refer to a transparent pixel with no color, i still read a color, generally the same color as used elsewhere in the image.
How do I detect that the pixel is actually transparent and not colored?
Thanks
int alpha = (colour>>24) & 0xff;
The result is also a value ranging from 0 (completely transparent) to 255 (completely opaque).