java buffered image created with red mask

Question

I am having trouble reading an image. If I do the following

URL url = new URL("http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/gmm.jpg");
ImageInputStream stream = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(url.openStream());
ImageReader reader = ImageIO.getImageReaders(stream).next();
reader.setInput(stream, true, true);
BufferedImage image = reader.read(0);

ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageWriter writer = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("JPEG").next();
ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(bos);
writer.setOutput(ios);
IIOImage ioImage = new IIOImage(image, null, null);
writer.write(ioImage);
ios.close();
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("badimage.jpeg");
fos.write(bos.toByteArray());
fos.close();

the image is written with a red tint. Is there some option that needs to be set to read this image correctly?

Answer 1

The problem maybe related to ImageIO.read that fails to correctly read some JPG images. Here is a similar bug (Bug ID: 4881314) that may still be partially unresolved.

As an alternative you can try using Toolkit.createImage that seems to handle the specified image correctly. For example:

import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.net.URL;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

class TestImage {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        try {
            URL imageUrl = new URL(
                "http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/gmm.jpg");
            BufferedImage ioImage = ImageIO.read(imageUrl);
            Image toolkitImage = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(
                    imageUrl);

            JPanel panel = new JPanel();
            panel.add(new JLabel(new ImageIcon(ioImage)));
            panel.add(new JLabel(new ImageIcon(toolkitImage)));

            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, panel, "ImageIO vs Toolkit",
                    JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e.getMessage(), "Failure",
                    JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Here is the result:

Answer 2

Sorry. I don't have the answer to why there is a red tint.

This is how we read images in our software. In our case we are using the scalar library to resize the image.

URL url = new URL("http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/gmm.jpg");
BufferedImage source = javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(url);
BufferedImage manipulated = ...
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("badimage.jpeg");
javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(manipulated , "png", fos);