How to make glow effect around a bitmap?

Question

The following code is what I got so far. However, there are 2 issues:

1. I want both inner and outer glow effects, which look similar to the Photoshop's blending options. But I only managed to make the outer glow, if I set BlurMaskFilter.Blur.INNER or other value, the whole image is blocked, instead of just edges.

2. Despite I set "FF" as alpha value, the glow color is still very dark.

   Bitmap alpha = origin.extractAlpha();
   BlurMaskFilter blurMaskFilter = new BlurMaskFilter(5, BlurMaskFilter.Blur.OUTER);
   
   Paint paint = new Paint();
   paint.setMaskFilter(blurMaskFilter);
   paint.setColor(0xffffffff);
   
   Canvas canvas = new Canvas(origin);
   canvas.drawBitmap(alpha, 0, 0, paint);
   
   return origin;
   

Solution 1

Try this, based on XGouchet's answer.

private void setBackgroundGlow(ImageView imgview, int imageicon,int r,int g,int b)
{
    // An added margin to the initial image
    int margin = 24;
    int halfMargin = margin / 2;
    // the glow radius
    int glowRadius = 40;

    // the glow color
    int glowColor = Color.rgb(r, g, b);

    // The original image to use
    Bitmap src = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),imageicon);

    // extract the alpha from the source image
    Bitmap alpha = src.extractAlpha();

    // The output bitmap (with the icon + glow)
    Bitmap bmp =  Bitmap.createBitmap(src.getWidth() + margin, src.getHeight() + margin, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);

    // The canvas to paint on the image
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bmp);

    Paint paint = new Paint();
    paint.setColor(glowColor);

    // outer glow
    paint.setMaskFilter(new BlurMaskFilter(glowRadius, Blur.OUTER));//For Inner glow set Blur.INNER
    canvas.drawBitmap(alpha, halfMargin, halfMargin, paint);

    // original icon
    canvas.drawBitmap(src, halfMargin, halfMargin, null);

    imgview.setImageBitmap(bmp);


}

Solution 2

here is the solution:

http://www.shaikhhamadali.blogspot.ro/2013/06/highlightfocusshadow-image-in-imageview.html

 public Bitmap highlightImage(Bitmap src) {
        // create new bitmap, which will be painted and becomes result image
        Bitmap bmOut = Bitmap.createBitmap(src.getWidth() + 96, src.getHeight() + 96, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        // setup canvas for painting
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bmOut);
        // setup default color
        canvas.drawColor(0, PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR);
        // create a blur paint for capturing alpha
        Paint ptBlur = new Paint();
        ptBlur.setMaskFilter(new BlurMaskFilter(15, Blur.NORMAL));
        int[] offsetXY = new int[2];
        // capture alpha into a bitmap
        Bitmap bmAlpha = src.extractAlpha(ptBlur, offsetXY);
        // create a color paint
        Paint ptAlphaColor = new Paint();
        ptAlphaColor.setColor(0xFFFFFFFF);
        // paint color for captured alpha region (bitmap)
        canvas.drawBitmap(bmAlpha, offsetXY[0], offsetXY[1], ptAlphaColor);
        // free memory
        bmAlpha.recycle();

        // paint the image source
        canvas.drawBitmap(src, 0, 0, null);

        // return out final image
        return bmOut;
    }

this will dove your question for more image bitmap effects visit these links on blog:

www.shaikhhamadali.blogspot.com

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Solution 3

I think there is no method in android to create glow effects. you have to make them yourself from scratch or find some java library that supports this.

the simplest thing that i prefer to use is making layers of images. basically you define a relative layout and put 2 imageViews one on top of another. just create the photoshop effect in its own layer and rasterize that layer, save it to png place it on top of your image. But careful if you are using this method with large images you can easily get that VM exceeded exception. Resampling the bitmaps according to the view size is a pretty good solution for this issue.

the other method that comes to my mind is drawing gradients over your image (ex: radial gradient that is transparent in the middle and white among the edges- to get a white glow) but this way takes a lot of time to tune up to exactly what you need so in my opinion isn't worth the effort).

Also here is a link for a site that makes java image filters. maybe you can find something that does the job for you.

http://www.jhlabs.com/ip/filters/index.html

Solution 4

The way to do this is to create a color filter contour, then blur it. This example may help: Android Bitmap contour

Solution 5

BlurMaskFilter.Blur.NORMAL maybe fit your necessary.

Comments from official:
NORMAL(0),  //!< blur inside and outside of the original border
SOLID(1),   //!< include the original mask, blur outside
OUTER(2),   //!< just blur outside the original border
INNER(3);   //!< just blur inside the original border

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Comments

[Nik]

If you want to reduce the glow radius around the bitmap based on the requirement U have.

[Chad Bingham]

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