I'm making minesweeper so I have this big matrix of JButtons. I want to have it so that when you click the button is disabled and the ImageIcon is changed to whatever it should be, but when you disable a button it becomes grayscale so the pictures are hard to see/don't look like what they're supposed to.

Is there a way to disable the button and keep the images colorful, or does anyone have any other ideas?

(I've thought about just removing the ActionListener but that might get confusing to have blank buttons that do nothing. Maybe only disabling it if there's not a number or mine, but that might require a lot more code)