Change color of non-transparent parts of png in Java

Question

I am trying to automatically change the color for a set of icons. Every icon has a white filled layer and the other part is transparent. Here is an example: (in this case it\'s

Answer 1

The problem is, that

Color originalColor = new Color(image.getRGB(xx, yy));

discards all the alpha values. Instead you have to use

 Color originalColor = new Color(image.getRGB(xx, yy), true);

to keep alpha values available.