Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage() vs ImageIO.read()

Question

I\'m creating a UI using Swing and I want to display an image in a JLabel. The code I use is the following:

 JLabel label = new JLabel(new Image         


        

Answer 1

As discussed here, your JPEG image may contain spurious transparency information. One simple expedient is to render the image in a buffer having a compatible color model, as shown here.