[java] Resize a picture to fit a JLabel

I'm trying to make a picture fit a JLabel. I wish to reduce the picture dimensions to something more appropriate for my Swing JPanel.

I tried with setPreferredSize but it doesn't work.

I'm wondering if there is a simple way to do it? Should I scale the image for this purpose?

public static void main(String s[]) 
  {

    BufferedImage image = null;
    try 
    {
        image = ImageIO.read(new File("your image path"));

    } catch (Exception e) 
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon(fitimage(image, label.getWidth(), label.getHeight()));
    jLabel1.setIcon(imageIcon);
}


private Image fitimage(Image img , int w , int h)
{
    BufferedImage resizedimage = new BufferedImage(w,h,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
    Graphics2D g2 = resizedimage.createGraphics();
    g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
    g2.drawImage(img, 0, 0,w,h,null);
    g2.dispose();
    return resizedimage;
}

Assign your image to a string. Eg image Now set icon to a fixed size label.

image.setIcon(new javax.swing.ImageIcon(image.getScaledInstance(50,50,WIDTH)));

Or u can do it this way. The function u put the below 6 lines will throw an IOException. And will take your JLabel as a parameter.

BufferedImage bi=new BufferedImage(label.width(),label.height(),BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);

Graphics2D g=bi.createGraphics();

Image img=ImageIO.read(new File("path of your image"));

g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, label.width(), label.height(), null);

g.dispose();

return bi;

You can try it:

ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon(new ImageIcon("icon.png").getImage().getScaledInstance(20, 20, Image.SCALE_DEFAULT));
label.setIcon(imageIcon);

Or in one line:

label.setIcon(new ImageIcon(new ImageIcon("icon.png").getImage().getScaledInstance(20, 20, Image.SCALE_DEFAULT)));

The execution time is much more faster than File and ImageIO.

I recommend you to compare the two solutions in a loop.

i have done the following and it worked perfectly

try {
        JFileChooser jfc = new JFileChooser();
        jfc.showOpenDialog(null);
        File f = jfc.getSelectedFile();
        Image bi = ImageIO.read(f);
        image1.setText("");
        image1.setIcon(new ImageIcon(bi.getScaledInstance(int width, int width, int width)));

    } catch (Exception e) {
    } 

The best and easy way for image resize using Java Swing is:

jLabel.setIcon(new ImageIcon(new javax.swing.ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("/res/image.png")).getImage().getScaledInstance(200, 50, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH)));

For better display, identify the actual height & width of image and resize based on width/height percentage

public void selectImageAndResize(){    
    int returnVal = jFileChooser.showOpenDialog(this); //open jfilechooser
    if (returnVal == jFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {    //select image
        File file = jFileChooser.getSelectedFile();    //get the image
        BufferedImage bi;
        try {
            //
            //transforms selected file to buffer
            //
            bi=ImageIO.read(file);  
            ImageIcon iconimage = new ImageIcon(bi);

            //
            //get image dimensions
            //
            BufferedImage bi2 = new BufferedImage(iconimage.getIconWidth(), iconimage.getIconHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); 
            Graphics g = bi.createGraphics();
            iconimage.paintIcon(null, g, 0,0);
            g.dispose();

            //
            //resize image according to jlabel
            //
            BufferedImage resizedimage=resize(bi,jLabel2.getWidth(), jLabel2.getHeight()); 
            ImageIcon resizedicon=new ImageIcon(resizedimage);
            jLabel2.setIcon(resizedicon);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            System.out.println("problem accessing file"+file.getAbsolutePath());
        }
    }
    else {
        System.out.println("File access cancelled by user.");
    }
}