--- old/src/java.desktop/share/classes/sun/java2d/pipe/DrawImage.java	2016-03-02 16:43:59.835456000 +0530
+++ new/src/java.desktop/share/classes/sun/java2d/pipe/DrawImage.java	2016-03-02 16:43:59.567322000 +0530
@@ -430,9 +430,9 @@
 
         if (isBgOperation(srcData, bgColor)) {
             // We cannot perform bg operations during transform so make
-            // an opaque temp image with the appropriate background
+            // a temp image with the appropriate background
             // and work from there.
-            img = makeBufferedImage(img, bgColor, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB,
+            img = makeBufferedImage(img, bgColor, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB,
                                     sx1, sy1, sx2, sy2);
             // Temp image has appropriate subimage at 0,0 now.
             sx2 -= sx1;
--- /dev/null	2016-03-02 14:33:16.377500000 +0530
+++ new/test/java/awt/image/DrawImage/ScaledImageAlphaTest.java	2016-03-02 16:44:00.303689999 +0530
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug     8139183
+ * @summary Test verifies whether alpha channel of a translucent
+ *          image is proper or not after scaling through drawImage.
+ * @run     main ScaledImageAlphaTest
+ */
+
+import java.awt.*;
+import java.awt.image.*;
+
+public class ScaledImageAlphaTest {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args){
+
+        int width = 50, height = 50;
+        // create BufferedImage of dimension (50,50)
+        BufferedImage img = new
+            BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
+        Graphics2D imgGraphics = (Graphics2D)img.getGraphics();
+
+        int scaleX = 5, scaleY = 5, scaleWidth = 40, scaleHeight = 40;
+        int translucentAlpha = 128;
+
+        /* scale image to smaller dimension and set background color
+         * to green with translucent alpha.
+         */
+        Color translucentGreen = new Color(0, 255, 0, translucentAlpha);
+        imgGraphics.
+            drawImage(img, scaleX, scaleY, scaleWidth, scaleHeight,
+                      translucentGreen, null);
+        imgGraphics.dispose();
+
+        /* get pixel information for background green color with
+         * scaled coordinates and extract alpha.
+         */
+        Color c = new Color(img.getRGB(scaleX, scaleY), true);
+        int alpha = c.getAlpha();
+
+        /* if alpha value is translucent, alpha channel is not lost
+         * while scaling otherwise we have lost alpha channel.
+         */
+        if(alpha != translucentAlpha) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Alpha channel is lost while scaling");
+        }
+    }
+}