title: Blending images in java
body: <p>Well I've got my game engine running smoothly, and perfectly on all machines! Before I continue adding functionality to the engine, I want to enhance the engine's graphical capabilities. The one I'm focused on is fading and blending images. I'm going to need some smooth transitions, so without using any 3rd party libraries like OpenGL, how does one apply opacity to images when drawing to a graphics object?</p>
  
  <p>thanks for any replies :D</p>