I have an image which is essentially a star-burst effect. The color of the star-burst is white, and the background is transparent (PNG w/ Alpha). I randomly generate these star-bursts onto an HTML5 canvas at random locations, and at the same time, generate random Hue, Saturation, and Light (HSL) values. These could be RGB values, if this simplifies things.
The goal is to re-colorize the PNG for display on the HTML5 canvas based on the randomly generated HLS values before rendering it to the canvas.
I've read some other posts on StackOverflow and other sites, but the only solutions I've seen involve rendering it to the canvas, grabbing the coordinates for where the image is displaying, and modify the color on a pixel-by-pixel basis. In theory this could work, however some of the images may overlap slightly. Also if there is a background already present, then from what I understand, the background's color would also be modified which isn't much of a solutions for me either.
If this is out of the realm of what Canvases are capable of, as a fallback I suppose I would be okay with having images dynamically re-colored via PHP using GD2 or Imagick, or via the command-line via Gimp, ImageMagick or some other image library...
Thanks much!
-- OUTCOME --
Special thanks to @jing3142 for initial suggestion of off-screen canvas rendering, and @Jarrod for providing the vital piece I was missing: globalCompositeOperation = "source-in"
Here is a working implementation of the concept: http://jsfiddle.net/fwtW2/2/
Works in:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- IE 9 (haven't tested other versions)