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Trail: 2D Graphics
Lesson: Overview of the Java 2D API

## Images

> The Java 2D API implements a new imaging model that supports the manipulation of fixed-resolution images stored in memory. A new `Image` class in the `java.awt.image` package, `BufferedImage`, can be used to hold and to manipulate image data retrieved from a file or a URL. For example, a `BufferedImage` can be used to implement double buffering--the graphic elements are rendered off-screen to the `BufferedImage` and are then copied to the screen through a call to `Graphics2D` `drawImage`. The classes `BufferedImage` and `BufferedImageOp` also enable you to perform a variety of image-filtering operations, such as blur and sharpen. The producer/consumer imaging model provided in previous versions of the JDK is supported for backward compatibility.

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