If you want to make a copy of a "BufferedImage" object that does not

share any resources with the original image you can use this function:

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    static BufferedImage copyimage(BufferedImage bi) {

         ColorModel cm = bi.getColorModel();

         boolean isAlphaPremultiplied = cm.isAlphaPremultiplied();

         WritableRaster raster = bi.copyData(null);

         return new BufferedImage(cm, raster, isAlphaPremultiplied, null);

    }