ThumbnailSharp

A specialized library to create an image thumbnail from various sources with better result and supports different image formats. A Thumbnail is something that's not very important sometimes, but for softwares/web apps that require a thumbnail to be uploaded to their databases to be used later becomes so vital. And if we just need to create a simple thumbnail, why do we need a big image composition library that holds unnecessary methods for us? Here, we introduce a simple but powerful library for creating a nice thumbnail either from local or internet (supports async/await) that produces better result than Image.GetThumbnailImage Method from System.Drawing.dll. You can consume the result of operation either as an array of bytes or a stream.

Here are some samples:

Original Image (Landscape)

Thumbnail (Jpeg)

size is set to 250

size is set to 450

Original Image (Portrait)

Thumbnail (Jpeg)

size is set to 250

size is set to 450

Original Image (Square/Proportional)

Thumbnail (Jpeg)

size is set to 250

How does it work? Simple, you just need to pass thumbnail size (aspect ratio will be reserved), image source, and image format.

Get thumbnail from internet source

byte[] resultBytes = await new ThumbnailCreator().CreateThumbnailBytesAsync(
	thumbnailSize: 250,
    	urlAddress: new Uri("http://www.sample-image.com/image.jpg",UriKind.Absolute),
    	imageFormat: Format.Jpeg
);
// or
Stream resultStream = await new ThumbnailCreator().CreateThumbnailStreamAsync(
	thumbnailSize: 250,
    	urlAddress: new Uri("http://www.sample-image.com/image.png",UriKind.Absolute),
    	imageFormat: Format.Png
);

Get thumbnail from local source

byte[] resultBytes = new ThumbnailCreator().CreateThumbnailBytes(
	thumbnailSize: 300,
    	imageFileLocation: @"C:\images\image.bmp",
    	imageFormat: Format.Bmp
);
//or
Stream resultStream = new ThumbnailCreator().CreateThumbnailStream(
	thumbnailSize: 300,
    	imageFileLocation: @"C:\images\image.bmp",
    	imageFormat: Format.Bmp
);

Get thumbnail from image stream

byte[] resultBytes = new ThumbnailCreator().CreateThumbnailBytes(
	thumbnailSize: 300,
    	imageStream: new FileStream(@"C:\images\image.jpg",FileMode.Open,FileAccess.ReadWrite),
    	imageFormat: Format.Jpeg
);
//or
Stream resultStream = new ThumbnailCreator().CreateThumbnailStream(
	thumbnailSize: 300,
  	imageStream: new FileStream(@"C:\images\image.jpg",FileMode.Open,FileAccess.ReadWrite),
    	imageFormat: Format.Jpeg
);

Get thumbnail from image bytes

byte[] buffer = GetImageBytes(); //this is just fictitious method to get image data in bytes

byte[] resultBytes = new ThumbnailCreator().CreateThumbnailBytes(
	thumbnailSize: 300,
    	imageBytes: buffer,
    	imageFormat: Format.Gif
);
//or
Stream resultStream = new ThumbnailCreator().CreateThumbnailStream(
	thumbnailSize: 300,
    	imageBytes: buffer,
    	imageFormat: Format.Tiff
);

Take a look our softwares that were built using this library:

ThumbnailSharp.Clients

Ready to taste it?

Install from Nuget.Org

Install-Package ThumbnailSharp -Version 1.0.0

Created by: Mirza Ghulam Rasyid