How to resize an Image C#

Question

As Size, Width and Height are Get() properties of System.Drawing.Image;
How can I resize an Image object

Answer 1

In the application I made it was necessary to create a function with multiple options. It's quite large, but it resizes the image, can keep the aspect ratio and can cut of the edges to return only the center of the image:

/// 

    /// Resize image with a directory as source
    /// 
    /// Image location
    /// new height
    /// new width
    /// keep the aspect ratio
    /// return the center bit of the image
    /// image with new dimentions
    public Image resizeImageFromFile(String OriginalFileLocation, int heigth, int width, Boolean keepAspectRatio, Boolean getCenter)
    {
        int newheigth = heigth;
        System.Drawing.Image FullsizeImage = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(OriginalFileLocation);

        // Prevent using images internal thumbnail
        FullsizeImage.RotateFlip(System.Drawing.RotateFlipType.Rotate180FlipNone);
        FullsizeImage.RotateFlip(System.Drawing.RotateFlipType.Rotate180FlipNone);

        if (keepAspectRatio || getCenter)
        {
            int bmpY = 0;
            double resize = (double)FullsizeImage.Width / (double)width;//get the resize vector
            if (getCenter)
            {
                bmpY = (int)((FullsizeImage.Height - (heigth * resize)) / 2);// gives the Y value of the part that will be cut off, to show only the part in the center
                Rectangle section = new Rectangle(new Point(0, bmpY), new Size(FullsizeImage.Width, (int)(heigth * resize)));// create the section to cut of the original image
                //System.Console.WriteLine("the section that will be cut off: " + section.Size.ToString() + " the Y value is minimized by: " + bmpY);
                Bitmap orImg = new Bitmap((Bitmap)FullsizeImage);//for the correct effect convert image to bitmap.
                FullsizeImage.Dispose();//clear the original image
                using (Bitmap tempImg = new Bitmap(section.Width, section.Height))
                {
                    Graphics cutImg = Graphics.FromImage(tempImg);//              set the file to save the new image to.
                    cutImg.DrawImage(orImg, 0, 0, section, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);// cut the image and save it to tempImg
                    FullsizeImage = tempImg;//save the tempImg as FullsizeImage for resizing later
                    orImg.Dispose();
                    cutImg.Dispose();
                    return FullsizeImage.GetThumbnailImage(width, heigth, null, IntPtr.Zero);
                }
            }
            else newheigth = (int)(FullsizeImage.Height / resize);//  set the new heigth of the current image
        }//return the image resized to the given heigth and width
        return FullsizeImage.GetThumbnailImage(width, newheigth, null, IntPtr.Zero);
    }

To make it easier to acces the function it's possible to add some overloaded functions:

/// 

    /// Resize image with a directory as source
    /// 
    /// Image location
    /// new height
    /// new width
    /// image with new dimentions
    public Image resizeImageFromFile(String OriginalFileLocation, int heigth, int width)
    {
        return resizeImageFromFile(OriginalFileLocation, heigth, width, false, false);
    }

    /// 

    /// Resize image with a directory as source
    /// 
    /// Image location
    /// new height
    /// new width
    /// keep the aspect ratio
    /// image with new dimentions
    public Image resizeImageFromFile(String OriginalFileLocation, int heigth, int width, Boolean keepAspectRatio)
    {
        return resizeImageFromFile(OriginalFileLocation, heigth, width, keepAspectRatio, false);
    }

Now are the last two booleans optional to set. Call the function like this:

System.Drawing.Image ResizedImage = resizeImageFromFile(imageLocation, 800, 400, true, true);