Help me please !!!

i’m an undergraduate sstudent n i’ve a project from my school.
my project is to develope a puzzle games based on java…
this puzzle is we choose a picture, n then we divide them into coloumns we want…
i’m confuse to divide a picture into coloms…
can anybody help me…

Check out BufferedImage.getSubImage()

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/image/BufferedImage.html

Check in the API here. That should help.