java - making a imageicon have a transparent background

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 URL url2 = new URL("http://frizfraz.com/skin-view/render.php?user=z3nox");
image2 = new ImageIcon(ImageIO.read(url2));
image2 = new ImageIcon(image2.getImage().getScaledInstance(150, 297, BufferedImage.SCALE_SMOOTH));
FrontImage = new JLabel(image2);
FrontImage.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);
FrontImage.setVerticalAlignment(SwingConstants.TOP);
FrontImage.setBounds(10, 11, 151, 297);
contentPane.add(FrontImage);

the code code is fine, once I load the image that has a transparent background on the web, and I load it onto the program it goes pink for some reason and i don't know why, I want it to have a transparent background like it had on the web, can some one please help? and explain why its pink and not transparent, and also, can some one help me make it transparent?

Posted 22-Jul-13 1:21am

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TorstenH. 22-Jul-13 9:31am

"the program" ?

Some grafic programs like photoshop like to present transparent as pink. It's not pink, it just looks like that.
stick to *.GIF or *.PNG to keep the transparency

[no name] 23-Jul-13 6:02am

but it is a png file, but its loaded though a url

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Fredrik Bornander · Answer 1 · 2013-07-22T04:08:00

Solution 1

Darryl Burke has solved this issue rather neatly; http://tips4java.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/alpha-icons/[^]

Hope this helps,
Fredrik

Posted 22-Jul-13 4:08am

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[no name] 23-Jul-13 4:54am

tats very useful but I don't know how to implement it :(

Fredrik Bornander 23-Jul-13 5:22am

Just copy his class; http://www.camick.com/java/source/AlphaImageIcon.java
It inherits from ImageIcon so you should be able to just replace your current attempt with using that one instead.