See the discussion: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2016-March/006453.html

The request is to use image filters with multi-resolution images to produce resulted multi-resolution images.

For example it would be good if code below works without changes for multi-resolution images:
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 124     static Image generateLightenedImage(final Image image, final int percent) {
 125         final GrayFilter filter = new GrayFilter(true, percent);
 126         final ImageProducer prod = new FilteredImageSource(image.getSource(), filter);
 127         return Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(prod);
 128     }
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Note 1:
MediaTracker is able to load resolution variants if they are provided from a set (like multiResoltuinImage.getResolutionVariants() method and not from method multiResoltuinImage.getResolutionVariant(width, height))

Note2: 
The scheme multi-resolution image -> multi-resolution image producer + image filter -> multi-resolution image
should also provide information about resolution-variant scaling to the filter.

For example using CropImageFilter with given rectangle [x, y, width, height]  in such case will result that from each resolution variant will be cut an constructed an image with the same size which is not what is expected.