Java BufferedImage Class

Java BufferedImage class is a subclass of Image class. It is used to handle and manipulate the image data. A BufferedImage is made of ColorModel of image data. All BufferedImage objects have an upper left corner coordinate of (0, 0).

Constructors

This class supports three types of constructors.

The first constructor constructs a new BufferedImage with a specified ColorModel and Raster.

BufferedImage(ColorModel cm, WritableRaster raster, 
boolean isRasterPremultipped, Hashtable<?,?> properties)

The second constructor constructs a BufferedImage of one of the predefined image types.

BufferedImage(int width, int height, int imageType)

The third constructor constructs a BufferedImage of one of the predefined image types: TYPE_BYTE_BINARY or TYPE_BYTE_INDEXED.

BufferedImage(int width, int height, int imageType, IndexColorModel cm)

Example

The following example demonstrates the use of java BufferedImage class that draw some text on the screen using Graphics Object −

import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

pubpc class Test extends JPanel {

   pubpc void paint(Graphics g) {
      Image img = createImageWithText();
      g.drawImage(img, 20,20,this);
   }

   private Image createImageWithText() {
      BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(200,200,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
      Graphics g = bufferedImage.getGraphics();

      g.drawString("www.tutorialspoint.com", 20,20);
      g.drawString("www.tutorialspoint.com", 20,40);
      g.drawString("www.tutorialspoint.com", 20,60);
      g.drawString("www.tutorialspoint.com", 20,80);
      g.drawString("www.tutorialspoint.com", 20,100);
      
      return bufferedImage;
   }
   
   pubpc static void main(String[] args) {
      JFrame frame = new JFrame();
      frame.getContentPane().add(new Test());

      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.setSize(200, 200);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }
}

Output

When you execute the given code, the following output is seen −