BufferedImage convert to Image

Question

Is there anyway to convert a BufferedImage into an Image. I've seen the other way around but not this way.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

thank you.
See, I've got this method (below), that actually creates this image for me.
private static BufferedImage loadImage(final URL url) throws Exception{ //IOException {
     BufferedImage image;
         // Load the image through Image I/O
     image = ImageIO.read(url);
     //image = imageIO.read(url);
        // Check that the image was loaded and that we can get a GC
         if (image != null && !GraphicsEnvironment.isHeadless()) {
            final GraphicsConfiguration gc = GraphicsEnvironment
                    .getLocalGraphicsEnvironment()
                    .getDefaultScreenDevice()
                    .getDefaultConfiguration();
            // This probably can't be null if it's not headless
            // Not sure though so check anyway
            if (gc != null) {
                // Attempt to create compatible image with same transparency
                final BufferedImage img = gc.createCompatibleImage(
                        image.getWidth(), image.getHeight(),
                        image.getTransparency());
                // Check that img was created and isn't the same type
                // If it's the same type we don't need to convert obviously
                if (img != null && image.getType() != img.getType()) {
                    // Use ColorConvertOp to convert the rasters from one
                    // color space to the other
                    // This is faster than using Graphics to draw on the new
                    // image in many cases, sometimes 100x faster
                    ColorConvertOp op = new ColorConvertOp(
                            image.getColorModel().getColorSpace(),
                            img.getColorModel().getColorSpace(), null);
                    op.filter(image, img);
                    image = img;
         return image;
     }But, I need to call this from within the same class:
URL base;     
               try{
               base = new URL ("http://home.cogeco.ca/~someplace/folder");
               catch(Exception n)
                    System.out.println("Can't construct URL, first time around.");
               try{
               ll = loadImage(base); // right exception after calling method???
               catch(Exception n)
                    System.out.println("problems");
               }For some reason, I can't figure out if I'm handling the exception properly. Any ideas why I'm getting the following error?
load: tetrisapp.PictureData.class can't be instantiated.
java.lang.InstantiationException: tetrisapp.PictureData
     at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:340)
     at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:778)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:707)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:361)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)Tell me if you need more code. I'm guessing that the error is coming from the improper handling of the exception.
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