C# - Crop Transparent/White space

I'm trying to remove all white or transparent pixels from an image, leaving 开发者_运维技巧the actual image (cropped). I've tried a few solutions, but none seem to work. Any suggestions or am I going to spend the night writing image cropping code?

So, what you want to do is find the top, left most non white/transparent pixel and the bottom, right most non white/transparent pixel. These two coordinates will give you a rectangle that you can then extract.

  // Load the bitmap
  Bitmap originalBitmap = Bitmap.FromFile("d:\\temp\\test.bmp") as Bitmap;

  // Find the min/max non-white/transparent pixels
  Point min = new Point(int.MaxValue, int.MaxValue);
  Point max = new Point(int.MinValue, int.MinValue);

  for (int x = 0; x < originalBitmap.Width; ++x)
  {
    for (int y = 0; y < originalBitmap.Height; ++y)
    {
      Color pixelColor = originalBitmap.GetPixel(x, y);
      if (!(pixelColor.R == 255 && pixelColor.G == 255 && pixelColor.B == 255)
        || pixelColor.A < 255)
      {
        if (x < min.X) min.X = x;
        if (y < min.Y) min.Y = y;

        if (x > max.X) max.X = x;
        if (y > max.Y) max.Y = y;
      }
    }
  }

  // Create a new bitmap from the crop rectangle
  Rectangle cropRectangle = new Rectangle(min.X, min.Y, max.X - min.X, max.Y - min.Y);
  Bitmap newBitmap = new Bitmap(cropRectangle.Width, cropRectangle.Height);
  using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(newBitmap))
  {
    g.DrawImage(originalBitmap, 0, 0, cropRectangle, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
  }

public Bitmap CropBitmap(Bitmap original)
{
    // determine new left
    int newLeft = -1;
    for (int x = 0; x < original.Width; x++)
    {
        for (int y = 0; y < original.Height; y++)
        {
            Color color = original.GetPixel(x, y);
            if ((color.R != 255) || (color.G != 255) || (color.B != 255) || 
                (color.A != 0))
            {
                // this pixel is either not white or not fully transparent
                newLeft = x;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (newLeft != -1)
        {
            break;
        }

        // repeat logic for new right, top and bottom

    }

    Bitmap ret = new Bitmap(newRight - newLeft, newTop - newBottom);
    using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(ret)
    {
        // copy from the original onto the new, using the new coordinates as
        // source coordinates for the original
        g.DrawImage(...);
    }

    return ret
}

Note that this function will be slow as dirt. GetPixel() is unbelievably slow, and accessing the Width and Height properties of a Bitmap inside a loop is also slow. LockBits would be the proper way to do this - there are tons of examples here on StackOverflow.

In WPF we have a WriteableBitmap class. Is this what are you looking for ? If it is the case please have a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jgalasyn/archive/2008/04/17/using-writeablebitmap-to-display-a-procedural-texture.aspx

Per-pixel check should do the trick. Scan each line to find empty line from the top & bottom, scan each row to find left & right constraints (this can be done in one pass with either rows or columns). When the constraint is found - copy the part of the image to another buffer.

I found a method to batch trim a few thousand .jpg files in about 10 minutes, but I didn't do it in code. I used the Convert feature of Snag-It Editor. I don't know if this is an option for you, if you need to do this trimming once or your need is ongoing, but for the price of the software, which isn't a whole lot, I considered this a decent workaround. (I do not work for or represent Techsmith.)

Joey

Adding to this, if you are in WPF and you have excess space around your image, check the properties of the image and make sure your Stretch property is set to fill. This eliminated the space around the image.

Screen shot of the property in WPF