Getting Greyscale pixel value from RGB colourspace in Java using BufferedImage

Posted by Andrew Bolster on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Andrew Bolster
Published on 2010-03-23T11:47:10Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 11:53 UTC
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Anyone know of a simple way of converting the RGBint value returned from <BufferedImage> getRGB(i,j) into a greyscale value?

I was going to simply average the RGB values by breaking them up using this;

int alpha = (pixel >> 24) & 0xff;
int red = (pixel >> 16) & 0xff;
int green = (pixel >> 8) & 0xff;
int blue = (pixel) & 0xff;

and then average red,green,blue.

But i feel like for such a simple operation I must be missing something...

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