Java Utililty Methods Image Load

return new ImageIcon(getImageURL(imageName, path)).getImage();

URL url = System.class.getResource(path);
if (url == null) {
    System.err.println("Unable to load image: " + path);
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(url);
return icon.getImage();

URL url = System.class.getResource(path);
if (url == null) {
    System.err.println("Unable to load image: " + path);
return new ImageIcon(url).getImage();

JLabel lbl = new JLabel();
Font f = lbl.getFont();
f = f.deriveFont(Font.BOLD);
FontMetrics fm = lbl.getFontMetrics(f);
Color bg = new Color(1f, 1f, 1f, 0.0f);
Color fontColor = lbl.getForeground();
return getImage(text, clockwise, f, fm, bg, fontColor);

if (imgCache.containsKey(url))
    return imgCache.get(url);
URL imgURL = Main.class.getResource("/res/img/" + url);
if (imgURL != null) {
    imgCache.put(url, new ImageIcon(imgURL));
    return imgCache.get(url);
} else {
    System.err.println("Couldn't find file: " + url);
...

ImageIcon icon = getImageIcon(url);
return (icon != null) ? icon.getImage() : null;

if (cls == null || resource == null)
    return null;
java.net.URL imgURL = cls.getResource(resource);
if (imgURL != null) {
    return new ImageIcon(imgURL).getImage();
} else {
    return null;

try {
    final InputStream is = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(fileName);
    ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    int nRead;
    byte[] data = new byte[16384];
    while ((nRead = is.read(data, 0, data.length)) != -1) {
        buffer.write(data, 0, nRead);
    buffer.flush();
    return new ImageIcon(buffer.toByteArray());
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return null;

int width = dim.width;
int height = dim.height;
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics g = image.createGraphics();
Rectangle originalBounds = source.getBounds();
source.setBounds(0, 0, width, height);
source.updateUI();
source.paint(g);
...

try {
    return toBufferedImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(imagePath));
} catch (Throwable e) {
    return ImageIO.read(new File(imagePath));