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

This is the code that I worked out for a specific requirement ie: the destination is always in landscape ratio. It should give you a good start.

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;

}

Answer 2

Use below function with below example for changing image size :

//Example : 
System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image newImage = System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image.FromFile("SampImag.jpg");
System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image temImag = FormatImage(newImage, 100, 100);

//image size modification unction   
public static System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image FormatImage(System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image img, int outputWidth, int outputHeight)
{

    Bitmap outputImage = null;
    Graphics graphics = null;
    try
    {
         outputImage = new Bitmap(outputWidth, outputHeight, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format16bppRgb555);
         graphics = Graphics.FromImage(outputImage);
         graphics.DrawImage(img, new Rectangle(0, 0, outputWidth, outputHeight),
         new Rectangle(0, 0, img.Width, img.Height), GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

         return outputImage;
     }
     catch (Exception ex)
     {
           return img;
     }
}

Answer 3

Not sure what is so difficult about this, do what you were doing, use the overloaded Bitmap constructor to create a re-sized image, the only thing you were missing was a cast back to the Image data type:

public static Image resizeImage(Image imgToResize, Size size)
{
    return (Image)(new Bitmap(imgToResize, size));
}

yourImage = resizeImage(yourImage, new Size(50,50));

Answer 4

in this question, you'll have some answers, including mine:

public Image resizeImage(int newWidth, int newHeight, string stPhotoPath)
 {
     Image imgPhoto = Image.FromFile(stPhotoPath); 

     int sourceWidth = imgPhoto.Width;
     int sourceHeight = imgPhoto.Height;

     //Consider vertical pics
    if (sourceWidth < sourceHeight)
    {
        int buff = newWidth;

        newWidth = newHeight;
        newHeight = buff;
    }

    int sourceX = 0, sourceY = 0, destX = 0, destY = 0;
    float nPercent = 0, nPercentW = 0, nPercentH = 0;

    nPercentW = ((float)newWidth / (float)sourceWidth);
    nPercentH = ((float)newHeight / (float)sourceHeight);
    if (nPercentH < nPercentW)
    {
        nPercent = nPercentH;
        destX = System.Convert.ToInt16((newWidth -
                  (sourceWidth * nPercent)) / 2);
    }
    else
    {
        nPercent = nPercentW;
        destY = System.Convert.ToInt16((newHeight -
                  (sourceHeight * nPercent)) / 2);
    }

    int destWidth = (int)(sourceWidth * nPercent);
    int destHeight = (int)(sourceHeight * nPercent);


    Bitmap bmPhoto = new Bitmap(newWidth, newHeight,
                  PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb);

    bmPhoto.SetResolution(imgPhoto.HorizontalResolution,
                 imgPhoto.VerticalResolution);

    Graphics grPhoto = Graphics.FromImage(bmPhoto);
    grPhoto.Clear(Color.Black);
    grPhoto.InterpolationMode =
        System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;

    grPhoto.DrawImage(imgPhoto,
        new Rectangle(destX, destY, destWidth, destHeight),
        new Rectangle(sourceX, sourceY, sourceWidth, sourceHeight),
        GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

    grPhoto.Dispose();
    imgPhoto.Dispose();
    return bmPhoto;
}

Answer 5

You can use the Accord.NET framework for this. It provides a few different methods of resizing:

• Bicubic
• Bilinear
• Nearest Neighbour