how to find image mode in Winforms C#.NET?

vikas potekar

10y1.9kVisual Basic .NET

Hi All,

Is there any way to find out image mode like bitmap, grayscale, cmyk etc in winforms using C#.NET??

Thanks in Advance!!!

Vikas P

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Darsh Veer10y ago
Hi Vikas,

I am not sure if there is any commercially free third party tool kit that provides a similar feature, but the System.Drawing.dll (image.Flags property) is already included and available with Microsoft Visual Studio libraries. So to my knowledge, there are no additional fees or charges to use it. You can contact Microsoft support for additional help:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh361695.aspx

Also, I found the following MSDN forum that might help:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/0d539c4d-e076-4395-b7cb-9e08a9c6e651/get-color-mode-cmyk-or-rgb-of-an-jpeg-image-?forum=csharpgeneral
vikas potekar10y ago
Hi Darsh,

Thanks All for reply..!!!

Is there any commercially free third party or any other tool kit to find out Image mode?

Thanks,
Vikas P
Darsh Veer10y ago
Hi vikas,

You can check the Image.Flags property (System.Drawing.Image (in System.Drawing.dll)). This flags gives you information about the pixel data of this Image (including the image mode). You can find more details here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.image.flags%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

Note that in some cases, you might need to use a programming toolkit (leadtools SDK) to load
Non-GDI+ supported images (like lossless JPEG, some types of TIFF, etc.) and then find out the image mode (RGB, CMYK, etc.).
You can find more details here:
http://support.leadtools.com/SupportPortal/CS/forums/37022/showpost.aspx
Shubham Kumar10y ago
Hi ,

Actually if you want mode of image so you just have get the PixelFormat of image

for that just follow the ref links

1st - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/library/system.drawing.imaging.pixelformat%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

2nd-http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1126967/how-to-get-bitsperpixel-from-a-bitmap

if you read this i thing you get an idea ho to do that..
vikas potekar10y ago
Hi Shubham,

Please see below link for your reference
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=433754&seqNum=6
Shubham Kumar10y ago
Hi Vikas hope doing well

what do you mean by mode you want extension of image or something else.