Java: Line appears when using AffineTransform to scale image

Question

Hi,

I'm having a problem with image scaling. When I use the following code to scale an image it ends up with a line either at the bottom or on the right side of the image.

double scale = 1;
if (scaleHeight >= scaleWidth) {
    scale = scaleWidth;
} else {
    scale = scaleHeight;
}
AffineTransform af = new AffineTransform();
af.scale(scale, scale);

AffineTransformOp operation = new AffineTransformOp(af, AffineTransformOp.TYPE_NEAREST_NEIGHBOR);
BufferedImage bufferedThumb = operation.filter(img, null);

The original image is here: http://tinyurl.com/yzv6r7h
The scaled image: http://tinyurl.com/yk6e8ga

Does anyone know why the line appears?

Thanks!

EDIT:

Added the complete method code:

public static final int SPINNER_MAX_WIDTH = 105;
public static final int SPINNER_MAX_HEIGHT = 70;

public void scaleImage(BufferedImage img, int maxWidth, int maxHeight, String fileName) {
    double scaleWidth = 1;
    double scaleHeight = 1;

    if (maxHeight != NOT_SET) {
        if (img.getHeight() > maxHeight) {
            scaleHeight = (double) maxHeight / (double) img.getHeight();
        }
    }

    if (maxWidth != NOT_SET) {
        if (img.getWidth() > maxWidth) {
            scaleWidth = (double) maxWidth / (double) img.getWidth();
        }
    }

    double scale = 1;

    if (scaleHeight >= scaleWidth) {
        scale = scaleWidth;
    } else {
        scale = scaleHeight;
    }

    AffineTransform af = new AffineTransform();
    af.scale(scale, scale);

    AffineTransformOp operation = new AffineTransformOp(af, AffineTransformOp.TYPE_NEAREST_NEIGHBOR);
    BufferedImage bufferedThumb = operation.filter(img, null);

    if (bufferedThumb != null) {
        File imageFile = new File(fileName);
        String fileType = fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf(".") + 1);
        try {
            ImageIO.write(bufferedThumb, fileType, imageFile);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            logger.error("Failed to save scaled image: " + fileName + "\n" + e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

The maxWidth and maxHeight parameters in the method call is set to the SPINNER_MAX_* constants.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Can you give us the rest of the code - how you manipulate the bufferedThumb, because if you just save it to to a file it should be fine.

ImageIO.write(bufferedThumb, "PNG", new File("img.png"));

What java version do you use?

EDITED:

What you can try is to construct the final image explicitly like this:

BufferedImage bufferedThumb = new BufferedImage(maxWidth, maxHeight, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
operation.filter(img, bufferedThumb);

to make sure what color mode is being used.

I think your issue may be related to this bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6725106

Another thing is to maybe use a differnt interpolation type like:

AffineTransformOp.TYPE_BILINEAR

For more information have a look at: http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/key=interpolation