Has anyone here have done clipping an image within an image? I've seen so far about clipping on the canvas but are all regular shapes(rectangle, circle, etc...). It would be nice if some have actually done it.
P.S. with fabric.js or just the regular canvas.
Sure, you can use compositing to draw a second image only where the first image exists:
ctx.drawImage(image1,0,0); // this creates the 'mask'
ctx.globalCompositeOperation='source-in';
ctx.drawImage(image2,0,0); // this image only draws inside the mask
Illustration: House image drawn first and second Grass image is drawn only where house pixels exist:
![](https://www.manongdao.com/static/images/pcload.jpg)
Example code an a Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/m1erickson/r71d8d8b/
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="css/reset.css" /> <!-- reset css -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<style>
body{ background-color: ivory; }
canvas{border:1px solid red;}
</style>
<script>
$(function(){
var canvas=document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx=canvas.getContext("2d");
// put the paths to your images in imageURLs[]
var imageURLs=[];
// push all your image urls!
imageURLs.push("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/139992952/stackoverflow/house100x100.png");
imageURLs.push("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/139992952/stackoverflow/mower_start.png");
// the loaded images will be placed in images[]
var imgs=[];
var imagesOK=0;
loadAllImages(start);
function loadAllImages(callback){
for (var i=0; i<imageURLs.length; i++) {
var img = new Image();
imgs.push(img);
img.onload = function(){
imagesOK++;
if (imagesOK>=imageURLs.length ) {
callback();
}
};
img.onerror=function(){alert("image load failed");}
img.crossOrigin="anonymous";
img.src = imageURLs[i];
}
}
function start(){
// the imgs[] array now holds fully loaded images
// the imgs[] are in the same order as imageURLs[]
ctx.drawImage(imgs[0],50,50);
ctx.globalCompositeOperation='source-in';
ctx.drawImage(imgs[1],0,0);
}
}); // end $(function(){});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h4>Second grass image is drawn only where<br>house pixels already existed<br>(Uses 'source-in' compositing)</h4>
<canvas id="canvas" width=300 height=300></canvas>
</body>
</html>