Graphics object to image file

Question

I would like to crop and resize my image. Here is my code:

Image image = Image.FromFile(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "Cropper/tests/castle.jpg");

// Crop and resize the image.
Rectangle destination = new Rectangle(0, 0, 200, 120);
Graphics graphic = Graphics.FromImage(image);
graphic.DrawImage(image, destination, int.Parse(X1.Value), int.Parse(Y1.Value), int.Parse(Width.Value), int.Parse(Height.Value), GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

Now I assume that my resulting cropped/resized image is stored in the graphics object. The question is - how do I save it to a file?

Answer 1

The Graphics object that you get from Graphics.FromImage is a drawing surface for the image. So you can simply save the image object when you are done.

string fileName = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "Cropper/tests/castle.jpg");
using (Image image = Image.FromFile(fileName)
{
    using (Graphics graphic = Graphics.FromImage(image))
    {
        // Crop and resize the image.
        Rectangle destination = new Rectangle(0, 0, 200, 120);
        graphic.DrawImage(image, destination, int.Parse(X1.Value), int.Parse(Y1.Value), int.Parse(Width.Value), int.Parse(Height.Value), GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
    }
    image.Save(fileName);
}

Beware though that doing this repeatedly on a jpg image may not be a good thing; the image is re-encoded each time and since jpg uses a destructive compression method you will lose some image quality each time. I wouldn't worry about that if this is a once-per-image operation though.