hi ppl. I've done 8 frames on JAVA netbeans 6.7 with the default color but now i'm required to put a background picture(image), i have no idea how..

You can create an ImageIcon and display it as the content of a JLabel. Then put the JLabel in the content pane of your JFrame. Look here:

Tutorial

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