Alpha channel transparency and resizing image files.

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

Canvas.Clear(Color.Transparent)

before you blit.