How can I resize an image using Java?

FWIW I just released (Apache 2, hosted on GitHub) a simple image-scaling library for Java called imgscalr (available on Maven central).

The library implements a few different approaches to image-scaling (including Chris Campbell's incremental approach with a few minor enhancements) and will either pick the most optimal approach for you if you ask it to, or give you the fastest or best looking (if you ask for that).

Usage is dead-simple, just a bunch of static methods. The simplest use-case is:

BufferedImage scaledImage = Scalr.resize(myImage, 200);

All operations maintain the image's original proportions, so in this case you are asking imgscalr to resize your image within a bounds of 200 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall and by default it will automatically select the best-looking and fastest approach for that since it wasn't specified.

I realize on the outset this looks like self-promotion (it is), but I spent my fair share of time googling this exact same subject and kept coming up with different results/approaches/thoughts/suggestions and decided to sit down and write a simple implementation that would address that 80-85% use-cases where you have an image and probably want a thumbnail for it -- either as fast as possible or as good-looking as possible (for those that have tried, you'll notice doing a Graphics.drawImage even with BICUBIC interpolation to a small enough image, it still looks like garbage).

After loading the image you can try:

BufferedImage createResizedCopy(Image originalImage, 
            int scaledWidth, int scaledHeight, 
            boolean preserveAlpha)
    {
        System.out.println("resizing...");
        int imageType = preserveAlpha ? BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB : BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB;
        BufferedImage scaledBI = new BufferedImage(scaledWidth, scaledHeight, imageType);
        Graphics2D g = scaledBI.createGraphics();
        if (preserveAlpha) {
            g.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Src);
        }
        g.drawImage(originalImage, 0, 0, scaledWidth, scaledHeight, null); 
        g.dispose();
        return scaledBI;
    }

You don't need a library to do this. You can do it with Java itself.

Chris Campbell has an excellent and detailed write-up on scaling images - see this article.

Chet Haase and Romain Guy also have a detailed and very informative write-up of image scaling in their book, Filthy Rich Clients.

Java Advanced Imaging is now open source, and provides the operations you need.

If you are dealing with large images or want a nice looking result it's not a trivial task in java. Simply doing it via a rescale op via Graphics2D will not create a high quality thumbnail. You can do it using JAI, but it requires more work than you would imagine to get something that looks good and JAI has a nasty habit of blowing our your JVM with OutOfMemory errors.

I suggest using ImageMagick as an external executable if you can get away with it. Its simple to use and it does the job right so that you don't have to.

If, having imagemagick installed on your maschine is an option, I recommend im4java. It is a very thin abstraction layer upon the command line interface, but does its job very well.

You can use Marvin (pure Java image processing framework) for this kind of operation: http://marvinproject.sourceforge.net

Scale plug-in: http://marvinproject.sourceforge.net/en/plugins/scale.html

It turns out that writing a performant scaler is not trivial. I did it once for an open source project: ImageScaler.

In principle 'java.awt.Image#getScaledInstance(int, int, int)' would do the job as well, but there is a nasty bug with this - refer to my link for details.

Try this folowing method :

ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("image.png");
Image img = icon.getImage();
Image newImg = img.getScaledInstance(350, 350, java.evt.Image.SCALE_SMOOTH);
icon = new ImageIcon(img);
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "image on The frame", "Display Image", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE, icon);

you can also use

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("convert " + origPath + " -resize 75% -quality 70 " + largePath + "");
            p.waitFor();

Design jLabel first:

JLabel label1 = new JLabel("");
label1.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
label1.setBounds(628, 28, 169, 125);
frame1.getContentPane().add(label1);   //frame1 = "Jframe name"

Then you can code below code(add your own height and width):

ImageIcon imageIcon1 = new ImageIcon(new ImageIcon("add location url").getImage().getScaledInstance(100, 100, Image.SCALE_DEFAULT)); //100, 100 add your own size
label1.setIcon(imageIcon1);