private void createThumbnail(String filename, int thumbWidth, int thumbHeight, int quality, String outFilename) throws InterruptedException, FileNotFoundException, IOException { // load image from filename Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(filename); MediaTracker mediaTracker = new MediaTracker(new Container()); mediaTracker.addImage(image, 0); mediaTracker.waitForID(0); // use this to test for errors at this point: System.out.println(mediaTracker.isErrorAny()); // determine thumbnail size from WIDTH and HEIGHT double thumbRatio = (double)thumbWidth / (double)thumbHeight; int imageWidth = image.getWidth(null); int imageHeight = image.getHeight(null); double imageRatio = (double)imageWidth / (double)imageHeight; if (thumbRatio < imageRatio) { thumbHeight = (int)(thumbWidth / imageRatio); } else { thumbWidth = (int)(thumbHeight * imageRatio); } // draw original image to thumbnail image object and scale it to the new size on-the-fly BufferedImage thumbImage = new BufferedImage(thumbWidth, thumbHeight, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); Graphics2D graphics2D = thumbImage.createGraphics(); graphics2D.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR); graphics2D.drawImage(image, 0, 0, thumbWidth, thumbHeight, null); // save thumbnail image to outFilename BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(outFilename)); JPEGImageEncoder encoder = JPEGCodec.createJPEGEncoder(out); JPEGEncodeParam param = encoder.getDefaultJPEGEncodeParam(thumbImage); quality = Math.max(0, Math.min(quality, 100)); param.setQuality((float)quality / 100.0f, false); encoder.setJPEGEncodeParam(param); encoder.encode(thumbImage); out.close(); }