Question

I have to do these kinds of initializations all over for different members:

this.Effects = new Effect [ image.Effects ];
for ( int i = 0; i < image.NumEffects; ++i )
{
    this.Effects [ i ] = new Effect ( image.Effects [ i ] );
}

Answer 1

Like this:

this.Effects = Array.ConvertAll(image.Effects, e => new Effect(e));

This will be faster than the equivalent LINQ calls with Select and ToArray which will probably be answered shortly after this.