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I'm writing a small Login dialog, and have embedded a banner at the top of the dialog for aesthetic reasons. All went well, except that by default, WPF anti aliases the entire image, making the text that was contained within it frustrating blurry.
After a bit of searching, the first few pages of results showed that it's common belief that anti aliasing cannot be disable in WPF. Can any confirm, or otherwise deny this?
It's a minor issue for me - I'll take the text out of the image and instead superimpose a label with the same text on top of the background image to achieve the same effect (though I must admit, it's a bit annoying).
Thanks,
Rob

As far as I know, WPF always does anti-aliasing when scaling a bitmap. However you should be able to accomplish your goal by avoiding the bitmap scaling.
There are two steps:
Set SnapsToDevicePixels="true" on your image
Set a ScaleTransform on your image to scale it so that one device pixel = one bitmap pixel
To compute the needed ScaleTransform, compute your screen's DPI like this:
var DPI = Win32Functions.GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYICON) / SystemParameters.IconHeight * 96;
and then for the bitmap, do:
var scale = bitmapDPI / DPI;
var transform = new ScaleTransform(scale, scale);
This will cause your bitmap's pixels to exactly match with the device pixels. WPF will not stretch the bitmap, so there should be no anti-aliasing.
If you do want to stretch your image on high DPI screens but do so without anti-aliasing (eg double all pixels), just stretch the bitmap in your own code using whichever algorithm you like and use the above with the stretched bitmap.

It's not really anti-aliasing - it's sub pixel positioning that causing the problem, I've written about it (and about a control that solves the problem) on my blog at:
http://www.nbdtech.com/blog/archive/2008/11/20/blurred-images-in-wpf.aspx

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How to change aspect ratio or resolution, without needing to rewrite all code Unity?

Recently I thought: "Let's set the 'resolution' from 16:9 to 16:9(1920x1080)" but i noticed that now all my positioning* code was off, and the size of pictures and text was way too small.
My problem now is, if I should just use the 16:9 aspect ratio or an fixed resolution (I don't know the benefits). But if I shouldn't use the aspect ratio, how to change the fixed resolution when the Project is ready, for example in the settings, without needing to rewrite all my code* and rescale all my images on the Canvas according to the resolution.
*For those of you who don't know what I mean with 'positioning', I mean setting the position of an Image on the Canvas, which obviously needs to be changed because the resolution is different. You could make something that detects your resolution and positions you image based on that, but idk if there is a better solution.
The best way to do this is during positioning ui using procentage also canvas Type which is displayed to resolution.
https://youtu.be/Tys6QWi9RpM
Solution on yt.

How to get a ScrollViewer to zoom in to see individual pixels?

I'm making an app for Windows 8.1 where it is important to be able to zoom in and examine images in detail. If I just open up the bitmap and zoom in it looks like.
However when I load the image into my app and use the ScrollViewer to zoom in I get.
As it appears to be trying to interpolate pixel values for some sort of anti-aliasing.
How can I get it so that when I zoom in it shows (as best it can) the exact pixels of the image? In particular I'm using the image as the background to a canvas which is contained in a scroll viewer.
I've looked around on here and MSDN and found a pair of related questions, but as yet they don't seem to have solved my exact problem.
A discussion on WPF
A similar issue with a canvas
Older related question on pixel art
A way to use bitmap encoding (which I couldn't get to work)
Similarly phrased question
There is no easy way to go about this, your best option is to use DirectX to render the image much larger so that you can mitigate the effect of WinRT automatically interpolating pixel values.
As someone explained on MSDN and based on this outstanding request I can't see any other way to accomplish this.
Use Win2D
Win2D is a DirectX inter-op library for WinRT. With this you can render the image at a much larger size, and then set the default zoom level for the scrollViewier to be very small. Because of this when you zoom in it will appear to be that you can see the individual pixels without any fuzzy/blurry interpolation because you will actually be seeing groups of 64 pixels or so all as one color. I couldn't find any way to actually override what kind of interpolation gets done so this seems to be the best method.
Download Win2D as a NuGet package using Visual Studio, Win2D's
quickstart guide does a good job explaining some of the setup
Set up your canvas and the draw event and use the DrawImage function to render the image larger
<ScrollViewer x:Name="Scroller" ZoomMode="Enabled"
MinZoomFactor="0.1" MaxZoomFactor="20">
<canvas:CanvasControl x:Name="canvas" Draw="canvas_Draw" CreateResources="create"/>
</ScrollViewer>
In the canvas_draw function.
canvas.Width = original.Width * 10;
canvas.Height = original.Height * 10;
args.DrawingSession.DrawImage(bitmap,new Rect(0,0,original.Width*10,original.Height*10), new Rect(0,0,original.Width,original.Height), 1.0f, CanvasImageInterpolation.NearestNeighbor);
Make sure to set your canvas to be larger as well
In your code behind set the default zoom of your ScrollVieiwer to be appropriate so your image appears to be the same size.
In the page constructor
Scroller.ZoomToFactor (0.1f);
Other Ways Which I Looked Into and Didn't Work
Making the canvas very large and using BitmapEncoder/BitmapDecoder with the interpolation mode set to NearestNeighbor, this introduced lots of visual artifacts even when scaled to a power of 2 size
Render options only appear to be usable in WPF and not WinRT
It may also be possible to use some image manipulation library to simply make the bitmap 10x or so as large and then use that, but I ended up using Win2D instead.

image processing in c#

before question think about for example photoshop. When you draw a rectangle on the picture.You can move it. And when you move it works very quickly and it doeasnt make some traces on the picture.
So my question is, how to do that in c# application?
This might be useful for you
Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 1 - Per Pixel Filters
Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 2 - Convolution Filters
Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 3 - Edge Detection Filters
Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 4 - Bilinear Filters and Resizing
Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 5 - Displacement filters, including swirl
Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 6 - The HSL color space
When you are moving the rectangle, Photoshop doesn't put it in the image and then draw the image, instead the image is drawn without the rectangle, and the rectangle is drawn on top of that on the screen. That way when you move the rectangle it can redraw the part of the image that previously was covered by the rectangle, and draw the rectangle at the new position.
I think you're asking about selection rectangles (or other temporary shapes) on top of the document image. This effect is sometimes known as “rubber banding”, especially when drawing a line from one point to another (it stretches like a rubber band).
Traditionally, this was done by using XOR drawing -- instead of overwriting the image with the selection shape, the colors in that area are inverted. Then, to remove the selection, it suffices to invert the colors again, returning to the same original image. Today, graphics rendering is fast enough that such tricks are not usually necessary; it suffices to simply repaint that part of the window (without the rectangle).
Either way, it is important to recognize that the document image — the image the user is editing — is not the same as the window image, which is just a copy to be remade whenever necessary. In the window, the document image is drawn and then selections, guide marks, and other such controls are drawn on top of it.
I'm not familiar with C#'s GUI facilities (and I understand there is more than one GUI framework you might be using), but it's probably got the usual structure of putting many "widgets", "views", or "controls" in the window (possibly nested inside each other). You can do a straightforward selection box — though not an optimally efficient one — by just putting an appropriately sized rectangle widget (with a solid border and a transparent background) on top of an image widget. This lets your GUI framework take care of the appropriate redrawing for you and is probably a good cheap way to start.

How can I resize an image in C# while retaining high quality?

I found an article on image processing from here: http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/csharp-tutorial-image-editing-saving-cropping-and-resizing Everything works fine.
I want to keep the high quality when resizing the image. I think if I can increase the DPI value I can achieve this. Does anyone know if this is possible? And if so, how can I implement it in C#?
For starters, it's worth pointing out that there are two general categories of images; vector [e.g. SVG, WMF, Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw Graphics] and bitmap (also called raster) images [e.g. Bitmap, JPEG and PNG Images].
Vector images are formed from a series of mathematical equations and/or calculations. Bitmap images, on the other hand, are made up of individual dots (pixels) each corresponding to a particular feature on the object the image is taken of.
If it should happen that you want to resize an image, the first thing to consider is if it is a bitmap or vector image. By virtue of the fact that vector images are obtained from calculations, they can be perfectly resized without losing any detail. The case is different for bitmap images. Since each pixel is independent of the other, when you desire to resize it, you are simply increasing or decreasing the source to target pixel ratio.
So in order to double the size of a vector image, simply multiply the target dimensions by two and everything comes out all right. If you should apply the same effect on a bitmap, you are actually increasing each source pixel to cover four pixels (two rows of two horizontal pixels).
Of course, by applying interpolation and filtering, the computer can "smooth" out the edges of the target pixels so they seem to blend into each other and give the appearance of a reasonably resized image but this output is never the same as resizing a vector image; vector images resize perfectly.
You also mentioned DPI in your question. DPI is essentially the number of pixels that correspond to an inch when the image is printed not when it is viewed on a screen. Therefore by increasing the DPI of the image, you do not increase the size of the image on the screen. You only increase the quality of print [which needless to say depends on the maximum resolution of the printer].
If you really desire to resize the image and the image is a bitmap, as a rule of thumb, do not increase the size beyond 200% of the original image's size else you'll lose the quality.
You can see this answer for code to resize bitmap images.
To see a sample vector image, go to this link.
Note Try zooming in and out of the image to see how well it resizes.
A typical bitmap are the StackOverflow sprites. They do not keep their quality resized.
Further Reading
Vector Graphics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_image
Bitmap Graphics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap_image
Simply If the original image is smaller then the re-sized image then there is hardly anything you can do. Rest is a research problem.
This would only be possible if it's a vector graphic. Look into SVG. Otherwise, I think you might need Silverlight or Flex for that part.
What you're asking isn't really possible. You can't enlarge an image while maintaining the same quality.
If you think about an image as a mapped array of pixels (literally, a "bit-map"), this makes sense. The image is saved with a fixed amount of data, and that's all you have to work with when you resize it. Any examples to the contrary (like TV shows, as suggested by one of the comments) are purely fictional.
The best that you can do is set the InterpolationMode property of the Graphics object you're using to do the resizing to "HighQualityBicubic", which is the highest quality smoothing algorithm supported by GDI+ and in fact by every major graphics package on the market. It's the best that even Adobe Photoshop has to offer. Essentially, interpolation means that the computer is calculating the approximate value of the new pixels you're adding to make the image larger from the relative values of neighboring pixels. It's a "best guess" method, but it's the best compromise we've come up with yet.
At the very least, the resulting images won't have "jaggies" or rough, pixelated lines.
Sample code:
Graphics g;
g.InterpolationMode = Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
// ... insert the rest of your code here
Beyond that, it's worth noting that GDI+ (which the .NET Framework uses internally for graphics routines) works best with image sizes that are multiples of 16. So if it all possible, you should try and make the width and height of your resized images a multiple of 16. This will preserve as much of the original image quality as possible.
The ideal solution is to switch to vector graphics that can be resized at will. Instead of pixel information, they contain mathematical information used to draw or "render" the image. Read more on Wikipedia.
let's try metadata in GDI+, may be it can suit your request

Do I need to scale a picture myself before printing?

A simple question - If I want to print a picture so it best fits the page in C#, do I have to scale it to the dimensions of the page myself ?
I've noticed the many good answers about how-to scale, I just want to know If I need to scale myself, as the scaling isn't a part of an image processing, it's only for the sake of the printing.
(a simple yes (if it's the answer) would do)
Edit:
Currently I'm scaling using:
e.Graphics.DrawImage(my_image, destRect, srcRect, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
Whereas destRect is a rectangle of the dimensions of the wanted output, I've done a simple algorithm to set this destRect to optimal sizes while preserving the original aspect ratio. (btw I'm not happy with this simple scaling, as it lacks in Image quality, will probably update to something fancier if I must).
But I've wanted to know if there's some auto-scaling provided by the framework for printing purposes, I really don't want to re-invent this wheel..
I'm not sure if this is as simple as yes/no. I suspect that you must still use GDI+ and the Graphics object, so scaling is as simple as calling Graphics.DrawImage(...) on the graphics object for the printing device. Some printer drivers might support scaling the source automatically, though.

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