Good image manipulation utility for .Net based applications

Question

I looking for a good image manipulation library/utility for using in .Net based application.

What I need it to do?

• Reduce the size of the image, by supplying a width value. but save the look of the image.
• Reduce the weight of the image, by optimizing it to web suffering.

The following thing are a good plus:

• Add a watermark to the image, both with (x,y) coordinates, or relative manner, like: center, bottom-left etc.
• Supporting as many formats as possible, and converting the pictures from format to format.
• Detect if a .gif file is animated image or regular one. If it is, support resizing animated pictures too is needed.

I know this is a lot of features, but in my opinion all of them are needed in today's websites, so I'm looking for a good one at least to be existed...

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Edit: after that I experienced ImageMagick.Net wrapper, I can say that this is NOT ready library for production.

Do we have any more options?

Answer 1

There are a few of them

1. CoolWatermark
2. ImageDraw

Answer 2

You can have a look at Aforge

There is a Image processing namespace.

I only used the motion detction routines, but this was a good solid library.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

ImageMagick has been around for a while. It has a .net wrapper called MagickNet

It's even got its own Stack Overflow tag

I found a few links for it:

• ImageMagick
• Code Project
• Code Plex

Code Plex seems to be the most active

Answer 4

Disclaimer: I work at Atalasoft

Our product, DotImage, can do this. You'd need DotImage Photo to do it http://atalasoft.com/products/dotimage/photo

If you download and install an evaluation copy, we'll take you to a page where you can request a custom demo. A link to this question would suffice for a spec.