JLabel Icon error

Hello to everyone,
I've recently tried to add a photo on JLabel within my project.. I opened a package for images, and I just linked then in JLabel properties -> Icon section.. But it gives an exception like "*Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException*
*at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<init>(ImageIcon.java:167)*"
. I googled it; some of webs say it is a bug.. I don't have any other things except a jlabel, and photos.. When I tried to add photo from a direct path; there's no problem; but I want to add it in project; because I'll make it a jar archive.. So they(images) have to be in project folder... Again, I didn't write any codes.. Just used GUI to add photo..
Thanx for advance..
With regards..

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Anyway We can't help because you don't know how to ask a question.
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