title: How do I increase the brightness of an image in java?
body: <p>What I'm trying to do is use for loops to increase the brightness of an image. I'm trying to use for loops to find each pixel and change the brightness by a certain amount. I want to create an array and save the image in that array and then it will print out the new image in the same folder. Also in my code I've made a reflection method which takes each pixel and reflects the image vertically. To run the program the user will have to type the image name and the name of the output file in CMD. Here's my entire code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import java.awt.Color;
  import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
  import java.io.*;
  import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
  
  public class ImageProcessor {
      public static void main(String[] args){
  
  
      if(args.length &lt; 3){
          System.out.println("Not enough arguments");
          System.exit(-1);
          }
          String function = args[0];
          if (function.equals("-reflectV"))
        {
        String inputFileName = args[1];
        String outputFileName = args[2];
  
         int [][] imageArr = readGrayscaleImage(inputFileName);
         int [][] reflectedArr = reflectV(imageArr);
  
         writeGrayscaleImage(outputFileName, reflectedArr);
        }
        else if (function.equals("-ascii")){
        String inputFileName = args[1];
        String outputFileName = args[2];
  
        int [][] imageArr = readGrayscaleImage(inputFileName);
        int [][] reflectedArr = reflectV(imageArr);
        try{
        PrintStream output = new PrintStream(new File("output.txt"));
        }
        catch (java.io.FileNotFoundException ex) {
        System.out.println("Error: File Not Found");
        System.exit(-1);
        }
        }
  
       else if (function.equals("-adjustBrightness")){
          String amount = args[1];
          int a = Integer.parseInt(amount);
          System.out.print(a)
   }
  
       public static int[][] reflectV(int[][] arr){
          int[][] reflected = new int[arr.length][arr[0].length];
          for(int i=0; i&lt; arr.length; i++){ 
              for(int j=0; j&lt;arr[i].length;j++){
                  reflected[i][j] = arr[i][arr[i].length-1-j];
              }
          }
  
          return reflected;
      }
  
      public static int[][] readGrayscaleImage(String filename) {
          int [][] result = null; //create the array
          try {
              File imageFile = new File(filename);    //create the file
              BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(imageFile);
              int height = image.getHeight();
              int width  = image.getWidth();
              result = new int[height][width];        //read each pixel value
              for (int x = 0; x &lt; width; x++) {
                  for (int y = 0; y &lt; height; y++) {
                      int rgb = image.getRGB(x, y);
                      result[y][x] = rgb &amp; 0xff;
                  }
              }
          }
          catch (IOException ioe) {
              System.err.println("Problems reading file named " + filename);
              System.exit(-1);
          }
          return result;  //once we're done filling it, return the new array
      }
  
  
      public static void writeGrayscaleImage(String filename, int[][] array) {
          int width = array[0].length;
          int height = array.length;
  
          try {
              BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(width, height,
                  BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);    //create the image
  
              //set all its pixel values based on values in the input array
              for (int x = 0; x &lt; width; x++) {
                  for (int y = 0; y &lt; height; y++) {
                      int rgb = array[y][x];
                      rgb |= rgb &lt;&lt; 8;
                      rgb |= rgb &lt;&lt; 16;
                      image.setRGB(x, y, rgb);
                  }
              }
  
              //write the image to a file
              File imageFile = new File(filename);
              ImageIO.write(image, "jpg", imageFile);
          }
          catch (IOException ioe) {
              System.err.println("Problems writing file named " + filename);
              System.exit(-1);
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>