Here's a nicely commented Image Manipulation helper class that you can look at and use. I wrote it as an example of how to perform certain image manipulation tasks in C#. You'll be interested in the ResizeImage function that takes a System.Drawing.Image, the width and the height as the arguments.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
namespace DoctaJonez.Drawing.Imaging
{
///
/// Provides various image untilities, such as high quality resizing and the ability to save a JPEG.
///
public static class ImageUtilities
{
///
/// A quick lookup for getting image encoders
///
private static Dictionary encoders = null;
///
/// A lock to prevent concurrency issues loading the encoders.
///
private static object encodersLock = new object();
///
/// A quick lookup for getting image encoders
///
public static Dictionary Encoders
{
//get accessor that creates the dictionary on demand
get
{
//if the quick lookup isn't initialised, initialise it
if (encoders == null)
{
//protect against concurrency issues
lock (encodersLock)
{
//check again, we might not have been the first person to acquire the lock (see the double checked lock pattern)
if (encoders == null)
{
encoders = new Dictionary();
//get all the codecs
foreach (ImageCodecInfo codec in ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders())
{
//add each codec to the quick lookup
encoders.Add(codec.MimeType.ToLower(), codec);
}
}
}
}
//return the lookup
return encoders;
}
}
///
/// Resize the image to the specified width and height.
///
/// The image to resize.
/// The width to resize to.
/// The height to resize to.
/// The resized image.
public static System.Drawing.Bitmap ResizeImage(System.Drawing.Image image, int width, int height)
{
//a holder for the result
Bitmap result = new Bitmap(width, height);
//set the resolutions the same to avoid cropping due to resolution differences
result.SetResolution(image.HorizontalResolution, image.VerticalResolution);
//use a graphics object to draw the resized image into the bitmap
using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(result))
{
//set the resize quality modes to high quality
graphics.CompositingQuality = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
graphics.InterpolationMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
graphics.SmoothingMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.SmoothingMode.HighQuality;
//draw the image into the target bitmap
graphics.DrawImage(image, 0, 0, result.Width, result.Height);
}
//return the resulting bitmap
return result;
}
///
/// Saves an image as a jpeg image, with the given quality
///
/// Path to which the image would be saved.
/// An integer from 0 to 100, with 100 being the
/// highest quality
///
/// An invalid value was entered for image quality.
///
public static void SaveJpeg(string path, Image image, int quality)
{
//ensure the quality is within the correct range
if ((quality < 0) || (quality > 100))
{
//create the error message
string error = string.Format("Jpeg image quality must be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the highest quality. A value of {0} was specified.", quality);
//throw a helpful exception
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(error);
}
//create an encoder parameter for the image quality
EncoderParameter qualityParam = new EncoderParameter(System.Drawing.Imaging.Encoder.Quality, quality);
//get the jpeg codec
ImageCodecInfo jpegCodec = GetEncoderInfo("image/jpeg");
//create a collection of all parameters that we will pass to the encoder
EncoderParameters encoderParams = new EncoderParameters(1);
//set the quality parameter for the codec
encoderParams.Param[0] = qualityParam;
//save the image using the codec and the parameters
image.Save(path, jpegCodec, encoderParams);
}
///
/// Returns the image codec with the given mime type
///
public static ImageCodecInfo GetEncoderInfo(string mimeType)
{
//do a case insensitive search for the mime type
string lookupKey = mimeType.ToLower();
//the codec to return, default to null
ImageCodecInfo foundCodec = null;
//if we have the encoder, get it to return
if (Encoders.ContainsKey(lookupKey))
{
//pull the codec from the lookup
foundCodec = Encoders[lookupKey];
}
return foundCodec;
}
}
}
Update
A few people have been asking in the comments for samples of how to consume the ImageUtilities class, so here you go.
//resize the image to the specified height and width
using (var resized = ImageUtilities.ResizeImage(image, 50, 100))
{
//save the resized image as a jpeg with a quality of 90
ImageUtilities.SaveJpeg(@"C:\myimage.jpeg", resized, 90);
}
Note
Remember that images are disposable, so you need to assign the result of your resize to a using declaration (or you could use a try finally and make sure you call dispose in your finally).
