Java AWT

A rectangular 2D pixel arrays is an image, in Java 2D API.

• Color is presented by the pixel, at that position of image.
• Image’s vertical and horizontal extent is presented by the dimensions.

The class java.awt.image.BufferedImage is considered to be the most important image class to present images. For accessing image content directly, image’s content is stored by Java 2D API in memory.

BufferedImage object can be created directly by the applications. An external image format like GIF or PNG can be used to obtain image.