Add image to canvas using paper JS - javascript

I used normal javascript to add image to canvas and this is the code
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
context = canvas.getContext('2d');
canvas_image();
function canvas_image(){
can_img = new Image();
can_img.src = 'Chrysanthemum.jpg';
can_img.onload = function(){
context.drawImage(can_img, 100, 100);
}
}
How can i add image to canvas using paperJS library?

Quoting from the paperjs.org tutorial on rasters:
Images need to already be loaded when they are added to a Paper.js project. Working with local images or images hosted on other websites may throw security exceptions on certain browsers.
So you need an image somewhere that is preferably visually hidden:
<img id="mona" class="visuallyhidden" src="mona.jpg" width="320" height="491">
And the PaperScript code could look like this:
// Create a raster item using the image tag with id="mona"
var raster = new Raster('mona');
Then you can reposition, scale or rotate like so:
// Move the raster to the center of the view
raster.position = view.center;
// Scale the raster by 50%
raster.scale(0.5);
// Rotate the raster by 45 degrees:
raster.rotate(45);
And here is a paperjs.org sketch to play with.

First, If you want to work with JavaScript directly look at this tutorial.
Once you understand it, you would have something like this to load image in raster
paper.install(window);
window.onload = function() {
// Setup directly from canvas id:
paper.setup('myCanvas');
var raster = new paper.Raster({source: 'Chrysanthemum.jpg', position: view.center});
}

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drawing on top of the image using paperjs

I'm using Paper.js to draw lines on canvas.
I want to be able to upload local image to the paperjs canvas and then be able to draw on top of it.
What I did is:
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
function make_base()
{
var img = document.createElement("img");
img.src = "http://paperjs.org/tutorials/images/working-with-rasters/mona.jpg";
context.drawImage(img, 100, 100);
}
document.getElementById('imageUpload').addEventListener('click', function(){
make_base();
});
This successfully adds an image to my canvas, but when I draw on canvas, image disappears and the image is on top of the lines, should be behind them.
You can add the image to the paper project as a paperjs Raster item, as such
var raster = new Raster({
source: "http://paperjs.org/tutorials/images/working-with-rasters/mona.jpg",
position: view.center
});
It will be inserted into the project in the current layer. You can then use paperjs functions like sendToBack and bringToFront to manipulate what appears where. I would probably put the raster image on the first Layer then add a new Layer for the drawing to make it easy to keep track of.
If you don't need to change or working with the image, use background-image on canvas tag:
<canvas id="canvas"
style="background-image: url(http://paperjs.org/tutorials/images/working-with-rasters/mona.jpg);"></canvas>

Would drawing an image to a canvas be described as hotlinking if the image was from another site?

If you created an image object like so:
var imageObj = new Image();
imageObj.src = urlOfImageOnAnotherWebsite;
And then drew it to a canvas on my website like so:
var canvas = document.getElementById('cnv');
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
imageObj.onload = function() {
context.drawImage(imageObj, 0, 0);
drawText(statusquote,date);
};
Would this be hotlinking the image? I initially am thinking no because I'm actually redrawing the image, and not hosting it.
Yes, the principle is the same. You are loading it from another domain.
Hotlinking is the act of using someone else's server and bandwidth to display content to your viewers. Since in this scenario the JavaScript still obtains the image from their site, it's hotlinking.

simple HTML5 canvas image not displaying

I'm new to this - I just can't figure out why this isn't working. When I remove Display:none from HTML, the image works correctly so I know the path to the image is correct. But it's not drawing on the canvas. Thanks for your time.
HTML:
<canvas width="840" height="900" id="Canvas6">
Your browser does not support this feature.
</canvas>
<img src="image/logo.png" id="img1" width="825" height="272" style="display:none;">
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/main.js"></script>
Main.JS JAVASCRIPT:
var theCanvas = document.getElementById('Canvas6');
if (theCanvas && theCanvas.getContext) {
var ctx = theCanvas.getContext("2d");
if (ctx) {
//Create a variable to hold our image
var srcImg = document.getElementById("img1");
//Draw an image directly onto the canvas
ctx.drawImage(srcImg, 0,0);
//Draw a scaled down image
//drawImage(srcImg, dx, dy, dw, dh)
}
}
In html file, the first best thing you have done is used the 'script' tag right at the end of the html file.
This ensures that the "Critical Render Time" is minimized, and the display items in HTML are shown first. (Not a huge impact on this case, because here you are using the JS to draw/display, but this approach is really good when you use your js for other purposes like calculations etc., and you don't want to stop the other HTML items from displaying because of an ongoing calculation.)
Now that the canvas is ready, its time to throw the image on the canvas.
Try using the border property (style="border: 2px dotted black") to see the container area of the canvas.
Hmmm !! But the image doesn't show in canvas. WHY ??
Images(or any other files) take atleast some time to get processed. By the time they are getting processed to be loaded on the screen, your canvas is already getting displayed. Hence you see an empty canvas.
So, the solution is to make everything else wait, till the time image gets loaded.
How do we do that ? Just use the "Event Listener".
EventListener is the property of Window object. (window.addEventListener("load", some_func_to_run , false);). We generally use this, when we want our window/page/browser to wait for something, but hey , we can use it for our images as well.
var cvs = document.getElementById("canvas"); // Getting the control of the canvas
var ctx = cvs.getContext("2d"); //Getting the control of the useful HTML object getContext . This object brings in a lot of useful methods like drawImage, fillRect etc.
//create images
var bg = new Image(); // Creating image objects
bg.src = "images/bg.png"; //Setting the source file
//create images ends
//load images first
bg.addEventListener("load" , draw , false); //**IMPORTANT : Just remove this line and you will start facing this problem of empty canvas again
//loading images ends
function draw() {
ctx.drawImage(bg,0,0); // Putting the image and its coordinates on the canvas
}
draw(); // Calling the draw function to put the image on canvas
<html>
<body>
<canvas id="canvas" width="288" height="512" style="border: 2px dotted black"> </canvas>
<script src="flappyBird.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
So, it all about using Event Listener and asking everything to wait till the image gets loaded.
Hope this help. :)
If you try to place an image on a Canvas before it has loaded, it will not show. It is not like the img tag that will show the image whenever it loads. I surrounded your JS with an onload and it worked for me.
document.getElementById("img1").onload = function() { /* Your JS */ };
You have to wait for the image to load before you can draw it on the canvas, so set your drawing code to run on the window load event (by which time all images are loaded). Also, you don't need to include the markup for the image on the page, where you have to then prevent it from displaying with CSS. You can just create the image object and set the source attribute in the javascript. For example:
var img = document.createElement('img');
img.src = 'image/logo.png';
window.addEventListener('load', function(){
var theCanvas = document.getElementById('Canvas6');
if (theCanvas && theCanvas.getContext) {
var ctx = theCanvas.getContext("2d");
if (ctx) {
ctx.drawImage(img, 0,0);
}
}
});

canvas is cleared on mousedown, sketch.js & jquery 2.0.0

11I'm using sketch.js from here: http://intridea.github.io/sketch.js/ and jquery 2.0.0
On my page, I have a list of images presented like so:
<img src="http://url.to/image"><br><span class="background">click for background</span>
and a canvas, set up like so:
<canvas id="simple_sketch" style="border: 2px solid black;"></canvas>
relevant JavaScript:
var winwidth = 800;
var winheight = 600;
$('#simple_sketch').attr('width', winwidth).attr('height', winheight);
$('#simple_sketch').sketch();
$('.background').on('click', function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var imgurl = $(this).parent().attr('href');
console.log('imgurl: ' + imgurl);
var n = imgurl.split('/');
var size = n.length;
var file = '../webkort/' + n[size - 1];
var sigCanvas = document.getElementById('simple_sketch');
var context = sigCanvas.getContext('2d');
var imageObj = new Image();
imageObj.src = imgurl;
imageObj.onload = function() {
context.drawImage(this, 0, 0,sigCanvas.width,sigCanvas.height);
};
alert('background changed');
});
Backgrounds are changed just as I want them to, but whenever I click on the canvas, the backgound image is cleared. As per a suggestion on this thread: html5 canvas background image disappear on mousemove I commented out this.el.width = this.canvas.width(); on line 116 of sketch.js, but to no avail.
Any help appreciated!
EDIT: jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/RXFX4/1/
EDIT: Couldn't figure out how to do this with sketch.js, so instead went with jqScribble (link posted in comments) which has the ability to do this as a built-in function instead.
Find this line on the library - sketch.js and delete/comment it out.
this.el.width = this.canvas.width();
Good luck
Assign the url on the image source after the onload event. If the image is already loaded, the event is probably firing before you are hooking it. Which means that your drawImage is never being called.
var imageObj = new Image();
imageObj.onload = function() {
context.drawImage(this, 0, 0,sigCanvas.width,sigCanvas.height);
};
imageObj.src = imgurl;
EDIT: I'm going to take a shot in the dark here, since I'm not familiar with sketchjs
I'm thinking that your problem is that you are completely re-render the canvas when you click your 'change background' link. Notice that if you draw, then click the change background, you lose your drawing.
However, notice that once you click again, the background disappears, and you get your original drawing back again. This tells me that sketchjs is keeping track of what has been drawn on it's own in-memory canvas, and then it drops it onto the target. The problem, then, is that when this in-memory canvas is drawn, it completely replaces the contents of the target canvas with it's own.
I notice in some of the sketchjs examples, if you want a background they actually assign the canvas a background style. In your example, you are drawing the background directly onto the canvas. The prior probably works because sketchjs knows to incorporate the background style when it draws. However, it does not know that when you drew your fresh background image, it should be using that.
Can you just change the background style on the canvas element, instead of drawing directly on the canvas?

Fill image with a repeatable texture

Would it be possible to fill a png with transparency with a pattern (a repeatable texture)?
Here's a quick example of loading an image onto the canvas, just not sure how to fill it with a pattern, if that isn't possible then would there be a way to extract a path from the png?
<script>
var c = document.getElementById("a");
var ctx = c.getContext("2d");
var test= new Image();
test.src = "images/test.png";
test.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(test, 0, 0);
};
</script>
<body>
<canvas id="a"></canvas>
</body>
I've also created a jsfiddle with an actual loaded png
This is the effect I'm looking to achieve
Update
working example based on Simon Sarris' answer
http://jsfiddle.net/sergeh/G8egW/6/
First, draw the image to Canvas.
Then do globalCompositeOperation = 'source-in';
Then draw the pattern. It will only exist where the image was.
http://jsfiddle.net/G8egW/2/
If you had stuff already on the canvas before this time, you'll need to do the above operations on an in-memory canvas and then draw that canvas to your normal canvas. Like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/G8egW/5/
(notice the difference in the grid)

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