My question is, what is the best way to tint an image that is drawn using the drawImage method. The target useage for this is advanced 2d particle-effects (game development)
I would take a look at this: http://www.arahaya.com/canvasscript3/examples/ he seems to have a ColorTransform method, I believe he is drawing a shape to do the transform but perhaps based on this you can find a way to adjust a specific image.