[c#] High Quality Image Scaling Library

I want to scale an image in C# with quality level as good as Photoshop does. Is there any C# image processing library available to do this thing?

Try the different values for Graphics.InterpolationMode. There are several typical scaling algorithms available in GDI+. If one of these is sufficient for your need, you can go this route instead of relying on an external library.

When you draw the image using GDI+ it scales quite well in my opinion. You can use this to create a scaled image.

If you want to scale your image with GDI+ you can do something like this:

Bitmap original = ...
Bitmap scaled = new Bitmap(new Size(original.Width * 4, original.Height * 4));
using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(scaled)) {
  graphics.DrawImage(original, new Rectangle(0, 0, scaled.Width, scaled.Height));
}

Try the different values for Graphics.InterpolationMode. There are several typical scaling algorithms available in GDI+. If one of these is sufficient for your need, you can go this route instead of relying on an external library.

When you draw the image using GDI+ it scales quite well in my opinion. You can use this to create a scaled image.

If you want to scale your image with GDI+ you can do something like this:

Bitmap original = ...
Bitmap scaled = new Bitmap(new Size(original.Width * 4, original.Height * 4));
using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(scaled)) {
  graphics.DrawImage(original, new Rectangle(0, 0, scaled.Width, scaled.Height));
}

You can try dotImage, one of my company's products, which includes an object for resampling images that has 18 filter types for various levels of quality.

Typical usage is:

// BiCubic is one technique available in PhotoShop
ResampleCommand resampler = new ResampleCommand(newSize, ResampleMethod.BiCubic);
AtalaImage newImage = resampler.Apply(oldImage).Image;

in addition, dotImage includes 140 some odd image processing commands including many filters similar to those in PhotoShop, if that's what you're looking for.

Tested libraries like Imagemagick and GD are available for .NET

You could also read up on things like bicubic interpolation and write your own.

I have some improve for Doctor Jones's answer.

It works for who wanted to how to proportional resize the image. It tested and worked for me.

The methods of class I added:

public static System.Drawing.Bitmap ResizeImage(System.Drawing.Image image, Size size)
{
    return ResizeImage(image, size.Width, size.Height);
}


public static Size GetProportionedSize(Image image, int maxWidth, int maxHeight, bool withProportion)
{
    if (withProportion)
    {
        double sourceWidth = image.Width;
        double sourceHeight = image.Height;

        if (sourceWidth < maxWidth && sourceHeight < maxHeight)
        {
            maxWidth = (int)sourceWidth;
            maxHeight = (int)sourceHeight;
        }
        else
        {
            double aspect = sourceHeight / sourceWidth;

            if (sourceWidth < sourceHeight)
            {
                maxWidth = Convert.ToInt32(Math.Round((maxHeight / aspect), 0));
            }
            else
            {
                maxHeight = Convert.ToInt32(Math.Round((maxWidth * aspect), 0));
            }
        }
    }

    return new Size(maxWidth, maxHeight);
}

and new available using according to this codes:

using (var resized = ImageUtilities.ResizeImage(image, ImageUtilities.GetProportionedSize(image, 50, 100)))
{
    ImageUtilities.SaveJpeg(@"C:\myimage.jpeg", resized, 90);
}

This might help

    public Image ResizeImage(Image source, RectangleF destinationBounds)
    {
        RectangleF sourceBounds = new RectangleF(0.0f,0.0f,(float)source.Width, (float)source.Height);
        RectangleF scaleBounds = new RectangleF();

        Image destinationImage = new Bitmap((int)destinationBounds.Width, (int)destinationBounds.Height);
        Graphics graph = Graphics.FromImage(destinationImage);
        graph.InterpolationMode =
            System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;

        // Fill with background color
        graph.FillRectangle(new SolidBrush(System.Drawing.Color.White), destinationBounds);

        float resizeRatio, sourceRatio;
        float scaleWidth, scaleHeight;

        sourceRatio = (float)source.Width / (float)source.Height;

        if (sourceRatio >= 1.0f)
        {
            //landscape
            resizeRatio = destinationBounds.Width / sourceBounds.Width;
            scaleWidth = destinationBounds.Width;
            scaleHeight = sourceBounds.Height * resizeRatio;
            float trimValue = destinationBounds.Height - scaleHeight;
            graph.DrawImage(source, 0, (trimValue / 2), destinationBounds.Width, scaleHeight);
        }
        else
        {
            //portrait
            resizeRatio = destinationBounds.Height/sourceBounds.Height;
            scaleWidth = sourceBounds.Width * resizeRatio;
            scaleHeight = destinationBounds.Height;
            float trimValue = destinationBounds.Width - scaleWidth;
            graph.DrawImage(source, (trimValue / 2), 0, scaleWidth, destinationBounds.Height);
        }

        return destinationImage;

    }

Note the InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic -> this is generally a good tradeoff between performance and results.

CodeProject articles discussing and sharing source code for scaling images:

• Two Pass Scaling using Filters
• Matrix Transformation of Images in C#, using .NET GDI+
• Resizing a Photographic image with GDI+ for .NET
• Fast Dyadic Image Scaling with Haar Transform

Try This basic code snippet:

private static Bitmap ResizeBitmap(Bitmap srcbmp, int width, int height )
{
    Bitmap newimage = new Bitmap(width, height);
    using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(newimage))
           g.DrawImage(srcbmp, 0, 0, width, height);
    return newimage;
}

You can try dotImage, one of my company's products, which includes an object for resampling images that has 18 filter types for various levels of quality.

Typical usage is:

// BiCubic is one technique available in PhotoShop
ResampleCommand resampler = new ResampleCommand(newSize, ResampleMethod.BiCubic);
AtalaImage newImage = resampler.Apply(oldImage).Image;

in addition, dotImage includes 140 some odd image processing commands including many filters similar to those in PhotoShop, if that's what you're looking for.

you could try this one if it's a lowres cgi 2D Image Filter

CodeProject articles discussing and sharing source code for scaling images:

• Two Pass Scaling using Filters
• Matrix Transformation of Images in C#, using .NET GDI+
• Resizing a Photographic image with GDI+ for .NET
• Fast Dyadic Image Scaling with Haar Transform

Use this library: http://imageresizing.net

Have a read of this article by the library author: 20 Image Sizing Pitfalls with .NET

You can try dotImage, one of my company's products, which includes an object for resampling images that has 18 filter types for various levels of quality.

Typical usage is:

// BiCubic is one technique available in PhotoShop
ResampleCommand resampler = new ResampleCommand(newSize, ResampleMethod.BiCubic);
AtalaImage newImage = resampler.Apply(oldImage).Image;

in addition, dotImage includes 140 some odd image processing commands including many filters similar to those in PhotoShop, if that's what you're looking for.

When you draw the image using GDI+ it scales quite well in my opinion. You can use this to create a scaled image.

If you want to scale your image with GDI+ you can do something like this:

Bitmap original = ...
Bitmap scaled = new Bitmap(new Size(original.Width * 4, original.Height * 4));
using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(scaled)) {
  graphics.DrawImage(original, new Rectangle(0, 0, scaled.Width, scaled.Height));
}

I have some improve for Doctor Jones's answer.

It works for who wanted to how to proportional resize the image. It tested and worked for me.

The methods of class I added:

public static System.Drawing.Bitmap ResizeImage(System.Drawing.Image image, Size size)
{
    return ResizeImage(image, size.Width, size.Height);
}


public static Size GetProportionedSize(Image image, int maxWidth, int maxHeight, bool withProportion)
{
    if (withProportion)
    {
        double sourceWidth = image.Width;
        double sourceHeight = image.Height;

        if (sourceWidth < maxWidth && sourceHeight < maxHeight)
        {
            maxWidth = (int)sourceWidth;
            maxHeight = (int)sourceHeight;
        }
        else
        {
            double aspect = sourceHeight / sourceWidth;

            if (sourceWidth < sourceHeight)
            {
                maxWidth = Convert.ToInt32(Math.Round((maxHeight / aspect), 0));
            }
            else
            {
                maxHeight = Convert.ToInt32(Math.Round((maxWidth * aspect), 0));
            }
        }
    }

    return new Size(maxWidth, maxHeight);
}

and new available using according to this codes:

using (var resized = ImageUtilities.ResizeImage(image, ImageUtilities.GetProportionedSize(image, 50, 100)))
{
    ImageUtilities.SaveJpeg(@"C:\myimage.jpeg", resized, 90);
}

You can try dotImage, one of my company's products, which includes an object for resampling images that has 18 filter types for various levels of quality.

Typical usage is:

// BiCubic is one technique available in PhotoShop
ResampleCommand resampler = new ResampleCommand(newSize, ResampleMethod.BiCubic);
AtalaImage newImage = resampler.Apply(oldImage).Image;

in addition, dotImage includes 140 some odd image processing commands including many filters similar to those in PhotoShop, if that's what you're looking for.

Tested libraries like Imagemagick and GD are available for .NET

You could also read up on things like bicubic interpolation and write your own.

There's an article on Code Project about using GDI+ for .NET to do photo resizing using, say, Bicubic interpolation.

There was also another article about this topic on another blog (MS employee, I think), but I can't find the link anywhere. :( Perhaps someone else can find it?

This might help

    public Image ResizeImage(Image source, RectangleF destinationBounds)
    {
        RectangleF sourceBounds = new RectangleF(0.0f,0.0f,(float)source.Width, (float)source.Height);
        RectangleF scaleBounds = new RectangleF();

        Image destinationImage = new Bitmap((int)destinationBounds.Width, (int)destinationBounds.Height);
        Graphics graph = Graphics.FromImage(destinationImage);
        graph.InterpolationMode =
            System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;

        // Fill with background color
        graph.FillRectangle(new SolidBrush(System.Drawing.Color.White), destinationBounds);

        float resizeRatio, sourceRatio;
        float scaleWidth, scaleHeight;

        sourceRatio = (float)source.Width / (float)source.Height;

        if (sourceRatio >= 1.0f)
        {
            //landscape
            resizeRatio = destinationBounds.Width / sourceBounds.Width;
            scaleWidth = destinationBounds.Width;
            scaleHeight = sourceBounds.Height * resizeRatio;
            float trimValue = destinationBounds.Height - scaleHeight;
            graph.DrawImage(source, 0, (trimValue / 2), destinationBounds.Width, scaleHeight);
        }
        else
        {
            //portrait
            resizeRatio = destinationBounds.Height/sourceBounds.Height;
            scaleWidth = sourceBounds.Width * resizeRatio;
            scaleHeight = destinationBounds.Height;
            float trimValue = destinationBounds.Width - scaleWidth;
            graph.DrawImage(source, (trimValue / 2), 0, scaleWidth, destinationBounds.Height);
        }

        return destinationImage;

    }

Note the InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic -> this is generally a good tradeoff between performance and results.

You could try the magic kernel. It produces less pixelation artifacts than bicubic resample when upscaling and it also gives very good results when downscaling. The source code is available in c# from the web site.

Try the different values for Graphics.InterpolationMode. There are several typical scaling algorithms available in GDI+. If one of these is sufficient for your need, you can go this route instead of relying on an external library.

Tested libraries like Imagemagick and GD are available for .NET

You could also read up on things like bicubic interpolation and write your own.

Tested libraries like Imagemagick and GD are available for .NET

You could also read up on things like bicubic interpolation and write your own.

When you draw the image using GDI+ it scales quite well in my opinion. You can use this to create a scaled image.

If you want to scale your image with GDI+ you can do something like this:

Bitmap original = ...
Bitmap scaled = new Bitmap(new Size(original.Width * 4, original.Height * 4));
using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(scaled)) {
  graphics.DrawImage(original, new Rectangle(0, 0, scaled.Width, scaled.Height));
}

This is an article I spotted being referenced in Paint.NET's code for image resampling: Various Simple Image Processing Techniques by Paul Bourke.

Try the different values for Graphics.InterpolationMode. There are several typical scaling algorithms available in GDI+. If one of these is sufficient for your need, you can go this route instead of relying on an external library.

CodeProject articles discussing and sharing source code for scaling images:

• Two Pass Scaling using Filters
• Matrix Transformation of Images in C#, using .NET GDI+
• Resizing a Photographic image with GDI+ for .NET
• Fast Dyadic Image Scaling with Haar Transform

There's an article on Code Project about using GDI+ for .NET to do photo resizing using, say, Bicubic interpolation.

There was also another article about this topic on another blog (MS employee, I think), but I can't find the link anywhere. :( Perhaps someone else can find it?

CodeProject articles discussing and sharing source code for scaling images:

• Two Pass Scaling using Filters
• Matrix Transformation of Images in C#, using .NET GDI+
• Resizing a Photographic image with GDI+ for .NET
• Fast Dyadic Image Scaling with Haar Transform

There's an article on Code Project about using GDI+ for .NET to do photo resizing using, say, Bicubic interpolation.

There was also another article about this topic on another blog (MS employee, I think), but I can't find the link anywhere. :( Perhaps someone else can find it?

This is an article I spotted being referenced in Paint.NET's code for image resampling: Various Simple Image Processing Techniques by Paul Bourke.

Use this library: http://imageresizing.net

Have a read of this article by the library author: 20 Image Sizing Pitfalls with .NET

Try This basic code snippet:

private static Bitmap ResizeBitmap(Bitmap srcbmp, int width, int height )
{
    Bitmap newimage = new Bitmap(width, height);
    using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(newimage))
           g.DrawImage(srcbmp, 0, 0, width, height);
    return newimage;
}

you could try this one if it's a lowres cgi 2D Image Filter

You could try the magic kernel. It produces less pixelation artifacts than bicubic resample when upscaling and it also gives very good results when downscaling. The source code is available in c# from the web site.

There's an article on Code Project about using GDI+ for .NET to do photo resizing using, say, Bicubic interpolation.

There was also another article about this topic on another blog (MS employee, I think), but I can't find the link anywhere. :( Perhaps someone else can find it?