How do you clone a BufferedImage

I do this:

public static BufferedImage copyImage(BufferedImage source){
    BufferedImage b = new BufferedImage(source.getWidth(), source.getHeight(), source.getType());
    Graphics g = b.getGraphics();
    g.drawImage(source, 0, 0, null);
    g.dispose();
    return b;
}

It works fairly well and it is simple to use.


Something like this?

static BufferedImage deepCopy(BufferedImage bi) {
 ColorModel cm = bi.getColorModel();
 boolean isAlphaPremultiplied = cm.isAlphaPremultiplied();
 WritableRaster raster = bi.copyData(null);
 return new BufferedImage(cm, raster, isAlphaPremultiplied, null);
}