URGENT: Heap space problems with image resizing

Question

I'm creating a Swing program, with an InternalFrame-type interface. One of the frames contains a .gif file background and then primitive G2D objects are drawn on top of it.
The background image loads and displays fine at its original size, but I've added code for when the window resizes, and resizing the image causes the VM to give me an OutOfMemory exception.

Answer 1

I tried this without any problem (with a gif of 137 kb):
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class ImageFrame extends JFrame {
    public ImageFrame() {
        initComponents();
        Toolkit T=this.getToolkit();
        im0=T.getImage("C:\\sophie.gif");
        MediaTracker mediaTracker = new MediaTracker(this);
        mediaTracker.addImage(im0, 1);
        try {
            mediaTracker.waitForID(1);
        } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
            System.err.println(ie);
        jInternalFrame1.add(new MyPanel());
    private void initComponents() {
        jDesktopPane1 = new JDesktopPane();
        jInternalFrame1 = new JInternalFrame();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        jInternalFrame1.setResizable(true);
        jInternalFrame1.setVisible(true);
        jInternalFrame1.addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
            public void componentResized(ComponentEvent evt) {
                jInternalFrame1ComponentResized(evt);
        jInternalFrame1.setBounds(0, 0, width, height);
        jDesktopPane1.add(jInternalFrame1, JLayeredPane.DEFAULT_LAYER);
        getContentPane().add(jDesktopPane1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        setBounds((screenSize.width-800)/2, (screenSize.height-500)/2, 800, 500);
    private void jInternalFrame1ComponentResized(ComponentEvent evt) {
        width=jInternalFrame1.getWidth();
        height=jInternalFrame1.getHeight();
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        new ImageFrame().setVisible(true);
    private int width=500,height=300;
    private Image im0;
    private JDesktopPane jDesktopPane1;
    private JInternalFrame jInternalFrame1;
    class MyPanel extends JPanel {
        public void paint(Graphics g1) {
            g1.drawImage(im0,0,0,width,height,this);
            g1.dispose();
}