I have a PNG image being sent from a DrawingView in Android to a WCF service. The image is sent as a 32-bit and it has transparent background. I want to replace the transparent colour (for lack of a better word) background with white. So far my code looks like this:
// Converting image to Bitmap object
Bitmap i = new Bitmap(new MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(image)));
// The image that is send from the tablet is 1280x692
// So we need to crop it
Rectangle cropRect = new Rectangle(640, 0, 640, 692);
//HERE
Bitmap target = i.Clone(cropRect, i.PixelFormat);
target.Save(string.Format("c:\\images\\{0}.png", randomFileName()),
System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
The above works fine, except the images have transparent background. I noticed that in Paint.NET you can simply set the PNG format to 8-bit and it sets the background to white. However, when I tried using:
System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed
all I got was a completely black picture.
Q: How to replace the transparent background with white in a png?
PS. The image is in Gray Scale.
This will draw onto a given color:
Bitmap Transparent2Color(Bitmap bmp1, Color target)
{
Bitmap bmp2 = new Bitmap(bmp1.Width, bmp1.Height);
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(Point.Empty, bmp1.Size);
using (Graphics G = Graphics.FromImage(bmp2) )
{
G.Clear(target);
G.DrawImageUnscaledAndClipped(bmp1, rect);
}
return bmp2;
}
This makes use of the G.CompositingMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.CompositingMode.SourceOver;, which is the default. It blends the drawn image with the background according to the alpha channel of the drawn image.
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