Merge Image using Javascript
Is it possible to merge pictures using javascript?
For example, if you have 2 rectangle .jpg or .png images files of the same size, is it possible that you can align it side by side and produce a merged copy of the two in a new .jpg or .png image file?
You can use JavaScript to 'merge' them into one canvas, and convert that canvas to image.
var c=document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctx=c.getContext("2d");
var imageObj1 = new Image();
var imageObj2 = new Image();
imageObj1.src = "1.png"
imageObj1.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(imageObj1, 0, 0, 328, 526);
imageObj2.src = "2.png";
imageObj2.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(imageObj2, 15, 85, 300, 300);
var img = c.toDataURL("image/png");
document.write('<img src="' + img + '" width="328" height="526"/>');
}
};
Due to security, your two images must be on the same domain with your JavaScript file (i.e http://123.com/1.png
, http://123.com/2.png
and http://123.com/script.js
) otherwise the function toDataURL()
will raise an error.
Updating this for 2019/2020+: there's an awesome npm package for this called merge-images
And its usage is very simple!
import mergeImages from 'merge-images';
mergeImages(['/body.png', '/eyes.png', '/mouth.png'])
.then(b64 => document.querySelector('img').src = b64);
// data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAA...
You can further customize it with positioning, opacity (both per-image) and the output's dimensions!
(I'm not related to this package in any way, I just wasted 3 days getting html2canvas
to work and then found this lifesaver!)