I have a function that loops through an image's pixels to determine the average "brightness" of the image as a number between 0 (black) - 255 (white).
The problem is during testing I found that while an image that's entirely black (#000000
) will correctly return 0, an image that's entirely white (#FFFFFF
) returns a number around 200 instead of 255. Am I missing something?
Here's my function, any help would be appreciated!
function getBrightness(imageSrc, callback) {
const img = document.createElement("img");
img.src = imageSrc;
img.style.display = "none";
document.body.appendChild(img);
let colorSum = 0;
img.onload = function() {
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = this.width;
canvas.height = this.height;
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
const imageData = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
const data = imageData.data;
let r, g, b, avg;
for(let x=0, len=data.length; x<len; x+=4) {
r = data[x];
g = data[x+1];
b = data[x+2];
avg = Math.floor((r+g+b) / 3);
colorSum += avg;
}
const brightness = Math.floor(colorSum / (this.width * this.height));
callback(brightness);
}
}
Sorry, but as the snippet below proves, the result for the image you mentioned is 255. Maybe you want to check out what file you were using in the tests ? you're probably using a wrong file...
function getBrightness(imageSrc, callback) {
const img = document.createElement("img");
img.src = imageSrc;
img.crossOrigin = 'anonymous';
img.style.display = "none";
document.body.appendChild(img);
let colorSum = 0;
img.onload = function() {
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = this.width;
canvas.height = this.height;
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
const imageData = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
const data = imageData.data;
let r, g, b, avg;
for(let x=0, len=data.length; x<len; x+=4) {
r = data[x];
g = data[x+1];
b = data[x+2];
avg = Math.floor((r+g+b) / 3);
colorSum += avg;
}
const brightness = Math.floor(colorSum / (this.width * this.height));
callback(brightness);
}
};
getBrightness(
'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Solid_white.svg/768px-Solid_white.svg.png',
(b)=>console.log(b));
I just included the line img.crossOrigin = 'anonymous';
in order to avoid the cors security message.