how to get image from JPanel

[Bobby Marvikuan]

So, as I understood(may be not correctly) in order to save an image I need a bufferedImage to read from some image like

BufferedImage bi = getMyImage();

or

 bi = ImageIO.read(new File("bld.jpg"));

but if I don't have an image I mean I have it but on my JPanel and it is exactly the image that I want to save how can I do then???

[Rob Spoor]

How did you get it onto your JPanel? Is it an ImageIcon wrapped in a JLabel? Or did you create it in paintComponent?