Question

I’m using the following code to resize a tif. The tif has an alpha channel set for transparency. I’m trying to resize this image and honour the transparency but at the moment it’s coming out with a black background. Any ideas?

public static void ResizeImage(string OriginalImagePath, string NewImagePath, int Width, int Height)
        {
            Size NewSize = new Size(Width, Height);

            using (Image OriginalImage = Image.FromFile(OriginalImagePath))
            {
                //Graphics objects can not be created from bitmaps with an Indexed Pixel Format, use RGB instead.
                PixelFormat Format = OriginalImage.PixelFormat;
                if (Format.ToString().Contains("Indexed"))
                    Format = PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb;

                using (Bitmap NewImage = new Bitmap(NewSize.Width, NewSize.Height, OriginalImage.PixelFormat))
                {
                    using (Graphics Canvas = Graphics.FromImage(NewImage))
                    {
                        Canvas.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
                        Canvas.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
                        Canvas.PixelOffsetMode = PixelOffsetMode.HighQuality;
                        Canvas.DrawImage(OriginalImage, new Rectangle(new Point(0, 0), NewSize));
                        NewImage.Save(NewImagePath, OriginalImage.RawFormat);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

    }

Answer 1

I actually found out that due to the way the transparency is stored in the tiff format with photoshop it was better to create png’s by automating photoshop and then crunching off the resulting png.