how do I scale a BufferedImage

Question

I have viewed this question, but it does not seem to actually answer the question that I have. I have a, image file, that may be any resolution. I need to load that image

Answer 1

You can create a new BufferedImage of the size you want and then perform a scaled paint of the original image into the new one:

BufferedImage resizedImage = new BufferedImage(new_width, new_height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); 
Graphics2D g = resizedImage.createGraphics();
g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, new_width, new_height, null);
g.dispose();