GDI color depth?

[RobT]

I'll admit, that I don't do a lot of GDI+ programming and I'm sure this is
an easy answer. I'm trying to draw a couple of shapes in a web site. I can
display them just fine, but on some of the fill colors are pixelated. Is
there a way to render these colors at a better color depth?

Dim bmp As Bitmap
bmp = New Bitmap(200, 200)
Dim g As Graphics
g = Graphics.FromIm age(bmp)
g.Clear(Color.W hite)
g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.A ntiAlias
Dim brsh As SolidBrush
brsh = New SolidBrush(Colo r.DarkGoldenrod )
g.FillPie(brsh, 10, 10, 50, 50, 0, 360)

Thanks

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: GDI color depth?

"RobT" <rtorcellini@NO walchemSPAM.com schrieb:

I'll admit, that I don't do a lot of GDI+ programming and I'm sure this is
an easy answer. I'm trying to draw a couple of shapes in a web site. I
can display them just fine, but on some of the fill colors are pixelated.
Is there a way to render these colors at a better color depth?
>
Dim bmp As Bitmap
bmp = New Bitmap(200, 200)
Dim g As Graphics
g = Graphics.FromIm age(bmp)
g.Clear(Color.W hite)
g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.A ntiAlias
Dim brsh As SolidBrush
brsh = New SolidBrush(Colo r.DarkGoldenrod )
g.FillPie(brsh, 10, 10, 50, 50, 0, 360)

Take a look at the different constructors of the 'Bitmap' class. In
addition, take a look at the different overloads of the 'Save' method. Note
that some image formats, such as GIF, only support a certain number of
colors in the image making dithering necessary.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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[RobT]

Re: GDI color depth?

Thanks for the pointers. I did modify the Save method to be jpeg instead
and that helps.

bmp.Save(Respon se.OutputStream , ImageFormat.Jpe g)

Now, is there a way to reduce the amount of compression of the jpeg so the
image is sharper? I(I have some other lines, text etc in my output). The
antialias looks fine...I'm pretty sure the compression is too high.

Thanks!

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"RobT" <rtorcellini@NO walchemSPAM.com schrieb:

>I'll admit, that I don't do a lot of GDI+ programming and I'm sure this
>is an easy answer. I'm trying to draw a couple of shapes in a web site.
>I can display them just fine, but on some of the fill colors are
>pixelated. Is there a way to render these colors at a better color depth?
>>
> Dim bmp As Bitmap
> bmp = New Bitmap(200, 200)
> Dim g As Graphics
> g = Graphics.FromIm age(bmp)
> g.Clear(Color.W hite)
> g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.A ntiAlias
> Dim brsh As SolidBrush
> brsh = New SolidBrush(Colo r.DarkGoldenrod )
> g.FillPie(brsh, 10, 10, 50, 50, 0, 360)

>
Take a look at the different constructors of the 'Bitmap' class. In
addition, take a look at the different overloads of the 'Save' method.
Note that some image formats, such as GIF, only support a certain number
of colors in the image making dithering necessary.
>
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Armin Zingler]

Re: GDI color depth?

"RobT" <rtorcellini@NO walchemSPAM.com schrieb

Now, is there a way to reduce the amount of compression of the jpeg so the
image is sharper? I(I have some other lines, text etc in my output).
The antialias looks fine...I'm pretty sure the compression is too high.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb882583.aspx

Armin

[RobT]

Re: GDI color depth?

Thanks....I just discovered that myself! Works great.

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"RobT" <rtorcellini@NO walchemSPAM.com schrieb

>Now, is there a way to reduce the amount of compression of the jpeg so
>the
>image is sharper? I(I have some other lines, text etc in my output).
>The antialias looks fine...I'm pretty sure the compression is too high.

>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb882583.aspx

>
>
Armin
>

[Andrew Morton]

Re: GDI color depth?

RobT wrote:

Thanks for the pointers. I did modify the Save method to be jpeg
instead and that helps.
>
bmp.Save(Respon se.OutputStream , ImageFormat.Jpe g)
>
Now, is there a way to reduce the amount of compression of the jpeg
so the image is sharper? I(I have some other lines, text etc in my
output). The antialias looks fine...I'm pretty sure the compression
is too high.

Depending on your target audience, png could be a suitable file format.

Andrew