This is a pet project which I’ve had around for a while now, which started off as a simple wrapper for GDI+ which allows you to create thumbnails from images. It’s turning into something a bit more than that, with an extensible filter framework where filters can be chained together. Also supports image conversion to/from Jpeg, PNG, TIFF, Bmp and GIF.
The idea is that over time I will be developing more and more filters which can be plugged in, with support coming for batch processing and asynchronous processing. Finally, the entire project is all open-source and free!
All the documentation for how to use it is all contained within the project homepage (there is more technical documentation to come), so without further ado here are all the links you need:
Nuget Support
What’s more, the project is also hosted on Nuget – so if you run Visual Studio 2010 with the excellent Nuget extension you can just install the project from there. The package name is Simplicode.ImageProcessor.
I would love to hear any feedback or issues you have if you use the library – you can get in touch with me directly or post a review on the project site!
Installed this into our existing CMS system and also into the back office of a couple of larger sites and it works fantastic.
Love the new feature of being able to crop at various locations which is perfect when you have portrait pictures of people so you need to crop their faces.
Great tool
Hi,
This looks a great library Steve. I came across a nice image processing control. I just wonder what is the difference between yours and Aspose.Imaging for .NET library.
Here are some details about aspose library,
Aspose.Imaging for .NET is an image processing & manipulation component that allows developers to create, edit, draw or convert images in their .NET application. It allows developers to convert image files to PSD, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF formats. Moreover a set of pens, brushes and fonts can be used to draw images or add new elements & text to existing images. Aspose.Imaging for .NET works well with both web & windows applications. Moreover, it adds the support for Silverlight platform.
Thanks for your time
Hi
That library certainly looks a lot more comprehensive than mine. For example, mine doesn’t support .PSD files or allows you to draw arbitrary shapes onto your images.
My library does, however, provide a simple framework for applying one or many filters to your images, including resizing, cropping, watermarking, format conversion, greyscale and other pixel operations. It’s also designed to be extensible.
Also, it’s completely free (and always will be)!