Compress Image before Saving to disk in Java

Question

Is it possible to compress an image before saving it? I'm using the Robot class to capture images, and it returns a BufferedImage. How can I compress this image and then save it?

Answer 1

.png files are (losslessly) compressed images.

You can use ImageIO.write() to save a .png image:

ImageIO.write(myBufferedImage, "png", outputfile);