Set BufferedImage alpha mask in Java

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I’m too late with this answer, but maybe it is of use for someone anyway. This is a simpler and more efficient version of Michael Myers’ method:

public void applyGrayscaleMaskToAlpha(BufferedImage image, BufferedImage mask)
{
    int width = image.getWidth();
    int height = image.getHeight();

    int[] imagePixels = image.getRGB(0, 0, width, height, null, 0, width);
    int[] maskPixels = mask.getRGB(0, 0, width, height, null, 0, width);

    for (int i = 0; i < imagePixels.length; i++)
    {
        int color = imagePixels[i] & 0x00ffffff; // Mask preexisting alpha
        int alpha = maskPixels[i] << 24; // Shift blue to alpha
        imagePixels[i] = color | alpha;
    }

    image.setRGB(0, 0, width, height, imagePixels, 0, width);
}

It reads all the pixels into an array at the beginning, thus requiring only one for-loop. Also, it directly shifts the blue byte to the alpha (of the mask color), instead of first masking the red byte and then shifting it.

Like the other methods, it assumes both images have the same dimensions.

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