Resize a picture to fit a JLabel

Question

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 setPreferredSiz

Answer 1

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