How to add an image to a JPanel

In case of using Netbeans IDE Palettes for GUI building, in order to insert an image into JPanel, you have to change the layout of panel to "Border Layout". Then you have to use a JLabel to pass the image into JPanel.

I have tried many ways but this worked fine for me:

ImageIcon picturetoInsert = newImageIcon("C:/images/anyimage.gif");

JLabel label = new JLabel("",picturetoInsert,JLabel.CENTER);

pPanel.add(label,BorderLayout.CENTER);