Showing an Image

file path -> FileInputStream -> BufferedImage -> Image -> ImageIcon

   1 File imageFile=new File("C:\\garden.jpg");
   2 try {
   3     FileInputStream fis=new FileInputStream(imageFile);
   4     
   5     BufferedImage buffImg=ImageIO.read(fis);
   6     Image img=Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(buffImg.getSource());
   7     ImageIcon imgico=new ImageIcon(img);
   8     jLabel1.setIcon(imgico);
   9     
  10 } catch (Exception e) {
  11     System.out.println("Error : " + e.getMessage());
  12 }

JLabel only supports ImageIcon type.