Looking for some help working with premultiplied alpha
- by user315142
I am trying to update a source image with the contents of multiple destination images. From what I can tell using premultiplied alpha is the way to go with this, but I think I am doing something wrong (function below). the image I am starting with is initialized with all ARGB values set to 0. When I run the function once the resulting image looks great, but when I start compositing on any others all the pixels that have alpha information get really messed up. Does anyone know if I am doing something glaringly wrong or if there is something extra I need to do to modify the color values?
void CompositeImage(unsigned char *src, unsigned char *dest, int srcW, int srcH){
int w = srcW;
int h = srcH;
int px0;
int px1;
int px2;
int px3;
int inverseAlpha;
int r;
int g;
int b;
int a;
int y;
int x;
for (y = 0; y < h; y++) {
for (x= 0; x< w*4; x+=4) {
// pixel number
px0 = (y*w*4) + x;
px1 = (y*w*4) + (x+1);
px2 = (y*w*4) + (x+2);
px3 = (y*w*4) + (x+3);
inverseAlpha = 1 - src[px3];
// create new values
r = src[px0] + inverseAlpha * dest[px0];
g = src[px1] + inverseAlpha * dest[px1];
b = src[px2] + inverseAlpha * dest[px2];
a = src[px3] + inverseAlpha * dest[px3];
// update destination image
dest[px0] = r;
dest[px1] = g;
dest[px2] = b;
dest[px3] = a;
}
}
}
