Saving An Image

Find an image and put it inside your project folder.

A note on image formats:

• .png is strongly recommended as an image format

• .jpg works, but it won't support transparency (lots of white backgrounds).

• .gif works and supports transparency, but it won't be animated

Loading an Image

An image is stored on your computer's hard drive. To use it, we first need to load it into the program's memory. This is a relatively slow process - you don't want to load an image every time you draw it.

In general, we'll use setup() to load our images then draw them later.

Code:

PImage capybara; // Declaring the image variable

void setup()

{

capybara = loadImage("capybara.png"); // Loads image into memory

}

Drawing an Image

• Once you have loaded an image, you can draw it by referencing the variable storing that image. It has two versions:

Version #1 - Fixed Size

void image(PImage name, int x, int y)

• Draws an image at x, y

Code:

image(capybara, 50, 50);

Version #2 - Scaling Size

void image(PImage name, int x, int y, int w, int h)

• Draws an image at x, y and resizes it to be sized w x h

Code:

image(capybara, 50, 50, 200, 200)