ASP.Net MVC Image Upload Resizing by downscaling or padding

Question

A user will be able to upload an image. If the image is greater than a set size I want to downsize it to that size. Obviously it doesn\'t have to match exactly due to ratios, t

Answer 1

You can just load the file into a bitmap object:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.bitmap.aspx

Then just check the width on the object. For the second part of your problem, I would recommend using a tool like ImageMagick

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

to accurately resize the first image or to create the background image and merge the two images together.

Answer 2

Here's a snippet of code I quickly knocked up for resizing it based on the width. I'm sure you could figure out how to add a background color to the Bitmap. It's not complete code but just an idea of how to do things.

public static void ResizeLogo(string originalFilename, string resizeFilename)
{
    Image imgOriginal = Image.FromFile(originalFilename);

    //pass in whatever value you want for the width (180)
    Image imgActual = ScaleBySize(imgOriginal, 180);
    imgActual.Save(resizeFilename);
    imgActual.Dispose();
}

public static Image ScaleBySize(Image imgPhoto, int size)
{
    int logoSize = size;

    float sourceWidth = imgPhoto.Width;
    float sourceHeight = imgPhoto.Height;
    float destHeight = 0;
    float destWidth = 0;
    int sourceX = 0;
    int sourceY = 0;
    int destX = 0;
    int destY = 0;

    // Resize Image to have the height = logoSize/2 or width = logoSize.
    // Height is greater than width, set Height = logoSize and resize width accordingly
    if (sourceWidth > (2 * sourceHeight))
    {
        destWidth = logoSize;
        destHeight = (float)(sourceHeight * logoSize / sourceWidth);
    }
    else
    {
        int h = logoSize / 2;
        destHeight = h;
        destWidth = (float)(sourceWidth * h / sourceHeight);
    }
    // Width is greater than height, set Width = logoSize and resize height accordingly

    Bitmap bmPhoto = new Bitmap((int)destWidth, (int)destHeight, 
                                PixelFormat.Format32bppPArgb);
    bmPhoto.SetResolution(imgPhoto.HorizontalResolution, imgPhoto.VerticalResolution);

    Graphics grPhoto = Graphics.FromImage(bmPhoto);
    grPhoto.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;

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

    grPhoto.Dispose();

    return bmPhoto;
}