What causes poor image quality in Java JLabel icons?

Question

Java JLabel icons are displaying with distorted pixels in JFrame. This is happening consistently with different png images (all 32x32). I am not sc

Answer 1

Answer is from this link to generate high quality image : https://componenthouse.com/2008/02/08/high-quality-image-resize-with-java/

The appropriate class from the link :

public class ImageResize {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            URL url = new URL("http://i.stack.imgur.com/L5DGx.png");
            BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(url);
            ImageIO.write(resizeImage(image, 32, 32), "png", new File("D:/picture3.png"));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static BufferedImage resize(BufferedImage image, int width, int height) {
        int type = image.getType() == 0? BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB : image.getType();
        BufferedImage resizedImage = new BufferedImage(width, height, type);
        Graphics2D g = resizedImage.createGraphics();
        g.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Src);
        g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
        g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
        g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
        g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, width, height, null);
        g.dispose();
        return resizedImage;
    }

    private static BufferedImage resizeImage(BufferedImage image, int width, int height) {
        image = createCompatibleImage(image);
        image = resize(image, 100, 100);
        image = blurImage(image);
        return resize(image, width, height);
    }

    public static BufferedImage blurImage(BufferedImage image) {
        float ninth = 1.0f/9.0f;
        float[] blurKernel = {
                ninth, ninth, ninth,
                ninth, ninth, ninth,
                ninth, ninth, ninth
        };

        Map map = new HashMap();
        map.put(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
        map.put(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING,RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
        map.put(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
        RenderingHints hints = new RenderingHints(map);
        BufferedImageOp op = new ConvolveOp(new Kernel(3, 3, blurKernel), ConvolveOp.EDGE_NO_OP, hints);
        return op.filter(image, null);
    }

    private static BufferedImage createCompatibleImage(BufferedImage image) {
        GraphicsConfiguration gc = BufferedImageGraphicsConfig.getConfig(image);
        int w = image.getWidth();
        int h = image.getHeight();
        BufferedImage result = gc.createCompatibleImage(w, h, Transparency.TRANSLUCENT);
        Graphics2D g2 = result.createGraphics();
        g2.drawRenderedImage(image, null);
        g2.dispose();
        return result;
    }

}