Scale a BufferedImage the fastest and easiest way

Question

The task: I have some images, I scale them down, and join them to one image. But I have a little problem with the implementation:

The concr

Answer 1

Maybe this method will help:

public  BufferedImage resizeImage(BufferedImage image, int width, int height) {
         int type=0;
        type = image.getType() == 0? BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB : image.getType();
        BufferedImage resizedImage = new BufferedImage(width, height,type);
        Graphics2D g = resizedImage.createGraphics();
        g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, width, height, null);
        g.dispose();
        return resizedImage;
     }

Don't forget those "import" lines:

import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

And about casting:

The abstract class Imageis the superclass of all classes that represent graphical images. We can't cast Image to BufferedImage because every BufferedImage is Image but vice versa is not true.

Image im = new BufferedImage(width, height, imageType);//this is true

BufferedImage img = new Image(){//.....}; //this is wrong