Hi folks,

I'm working on an image/animation editor. My editor needs to be able to import multiple images, stored as separate layers, which are eventually saved out in a custom file format.

Currently I have images being loaded in from their location on the filesystem:
I'd like to draw this image to a Canvas. The intent is to make it so I don't have to pass around a copy of every image used in each layer, but rather just one file, each containing a b64 copy of all images used.

for example:

I've seen a couple solutions that involve writing out to temporary files, but I'd like to avoid that.

I see in the documentation that at least existed at one point in time, but it seems to be deprecated in the version I'm using, as I only get errors when trying to use it.

Thanks!

Excuse me,
why Base64 ?   

 Base64 because I want it to save all contents of the layered image out to a human-readable file.

Switching from b64 to bytes is a function call away, so if it's easier to think about, I suppose I should have posed the question like:

I have read in a PNG as a string of bytes, and I am looking for a way to convert that string of bytes to an Image or Picture type, to display to a canvas.

Well, so I simply answer this your question:

computermouth said

I have read in a PNG as a string of bytes, and I am looking for a way to convert that string of bytes to an Image or Picture type, to display to a canvas.

…and this's my code: