How do you clone a BufferedImage

I have an object which has many bufferedimages in it, I want to create a new object copying all the bufferedimages into the new object, but these new images may be altered and i don't want the original object images to be altered by altering the new objects images.

is that clear?

Is this possible to do and can anyone suggest a good way to do it please? I have thought of getSubImage but read somewhere that any changes to the subimage are relected back to the parent image.

I just want to be able to get a fresh entirely separate copy or clone of a BufferedImage

Something like this?

static BufferedImage deepCopy(BufferedImage bi) {
 ColorModel cm = bi.getColorModel();
 boolean isAlphaPremultiplied = cm.isAlphaPremultiplied();
 WritableRaster raster = bi.copyData(null);
 return new BufferedImage(cm, raster, isAlphaPremultiplied, null);
}

I do this:

public static BufferedImage copyImage(BufferedImage source){
    BufferedImage b = new BufferedImage(source.getWidth(), source.getHeight(), source.getType());
    Graphics g = b.getGraphics();
    g.drawImage(source, 0, 0, null);
    g.dispose();
    return b;
}

It works fairly well and it is simple to use.