Saving a graphics to an image

[john kalaigian]

Say i have a regular BufferedImage and I draw a polygon ROI over it. I want to be able to save the ROI and the underlying image as a new jpg image - does anybody have simple code to do what I just described? Or at least can you tell me how I can get access to the Graphics2D objects themselves and burn them onto the image

[Dan Cranmer]

Take a look at this article, it might answer some of your questions:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2000/jw-0505-servlets.html

[Chad McGowan]

The java advanced imaging api should have everything you need. There are encoders and decoders available (including jpg). There is also a tutorial on how to use jai on sun's web site.
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