Question

I have a question in regards to the code below. The code I have below successfully runs through a directory, and sets the resoultion of the picture to a smaller size. However, the file size is not changed. For example, an image with dimensions of 2400×1800 with file size of 1.5MB will be scaled to 800×600, but the 800×600 picture will still be 1.5MB file size. I’m think I may have to explicitly compress the picture, but I’m not sure. Any ideas?

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string[] files = null;
            int count = 0;
            files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\Users\..\..\ChristmasPicsResized");
            foreach (string file in files)
            {
                System.Drawing.Bitmap bmp = System.Drawing.Bipmap.FromFile(file);

                ResizeBitmap(bmp, 807, 605).Save(
                     @"C:\users\..\..\TempPicHold\Pic" + count.ToString() + ".jpg");
                count++;
            }
        }
        public Bitmap ResizeBitmap(Bitmap b, int nWidth, int nHeight)
        {
            Bitmap result = new Bitmap(nWidth, nHeight);
            using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage((Image)result))
                g.DrawImage(b, 0, 0, nWidth, nHeight);
            return result;
        }

Answer 1

Found the problem. Thanks @yetapb for showing a cleaner version of the code, but that still didn’t work. The answer to the problem was that I needed to explicity specify the type of file type that the image would be saved as. My guess is that because I did not specify the image format explicitly, the image compression was not handled accordingly.. A Bitmap was just saved with a smaller resolution with a ‘.jpg’ slapped onto it, and not compressed accordingly. The following code now works.

            files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\PicFolder");
            for (string file in files)
            {
            Bitmap tempBmp = new Bitmap(file);
            Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(tempBmp, 807, 605);

            bmp.Save(
            @"C:\NewPicFolder\Pic" + count + ".jpg",
            System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);
            count++;
            }