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image overlay picture from Camer_net library showing a lot of pink color

I am making an windows form application in which i am overlaying an image during a webcam stream from the laptop.
the overlayed image is showing absurd colours. it is showing alot of pink colour. is there anything i can do to make the overlayed image look properly.
i am using the camera_Net Library to connect to the webcam
suggestions for overlaying an image during during a webcam video shall also be appreciated.
here is my code to draw the image
string filepath = #"E:\office\lux desktop app\Camera_Net-master\Camera_Net-master\Samples\CameraControlTool\water_PNG3290.png";
Bitmap bitmap1 = new Bitmap(filepath);
g.DrawImage(bitmap1, new Rectangle(400 , 0, 250, 600));
here is the look of the image during webcam stream
and here is the orignal image being overlayed

I think the problem is the image itself. It's an .png image, so I it has the possibility of an alpha-value. The white in the back is cropped out but in between the water, the light blue values are pink.
I would first try to use an easier image. Something like this. I think this will work just fine. Then search for some more complex images and try to find the weak-spot and find some alternative options to bring the image in to the cam.

As #Roman R pointed out that g point correctly to an incorrect background,
the problem was indeed with color format, so the solution is to use the correct image pixelformat based on your image.
here is the complete code
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(w, h, PixelFormat.Format32bppRgb);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);
Image newImage;
newImage = Properties.Resources.red_frame_03;
using (Bitmap oldBmp = new Bitmap(newImage))
using (Bitmap newBmp = new Bitmap(oldBmp))
using (Bitmap targetBmp = newBmp.Clone(new Rectangle(0, 0, newBmp.Width, newBmp.Height), PixelFormat.Format16bppArgb1555))
{
g.DrawImage(targetBmp, new Rectangle(100, 0, 350, 350));
}

C# Zoomed image in Picturebox gets cropped in top left

I want to make very simplistic paint/image editor. Mainly, for pixel editing, but that doesn't seem relevant.
To ease up my effort, I decided to keep the image size at 16x16.
I populate the form, add a PixelBox and slap a default image on it.
Of course, I need to make the pixels visible, set the interpolation to NearestNeighbor.
Then, I stretch the pixelbox to 320x320. And there the situation arises.
The image is displayed as thus:
Cropped image
Could someone shed some light on this? This is just a 16x16 image with a checkerboard pattern that I made, but I can't figure out why it is displayed with that offset at the top left.
Also, no code as been yet added. I assume this is default behavior?

If you look at the examples on the page that exact same error happens, so it must be a bug on the PixelBox.
Instead of using a custom control for this type of operation just use the standard PictureBox and scale the image by yourself:
public Bitmap ScaleBitmap(Bitmap src, Size NewSize)
{
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(NewSize.Width, NewSize.Height, src.PixelFormat);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(src);
g.InterpolationMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.NearestNeighbor;
g.DrawImage(src, new Rectangle(Point.Empty, NewSize), new Rectangle(0, 0, src.Width, src.Height), GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
g.Dispose();
return bmp;
}

C# Win8: copy .PNG to the Windows clipboard; paste with transparency preserved

I have been tasked with capturing an image, copy it to the clipboard, and paste it to the application below. I must be able to support pretty much any rich text field, and it must preserve transparency. My current solution first renders a white background. Here is my code:
The RenderTargetBitmap contains the image that I wish to copy as a .PNG
public static void CopyImageToClipboard(RenderTargetBitmap b)
{
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
PngBitmapEncoder encoder = new PngBitmapEncoder();
encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(b));
encoder.Save(stream);
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(stream);
Bitmap blank = new Bitmap(Convert.ToInt32(b.Width), Convert.ToInt32(b.Height));
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(blank);
g.Clear(System.Drawing.Color.White);
System.Drawing.Image img = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(stream);
g.DrawImage(img, 0, 0, Convert.ToInt32(b.Width), Convert.ToInt32(b.Height));
Bitmap tempImage = new Bitmap(blank);
blank.Dispose();
img.Dispose();
bmp = new Bitmap(tempImage);
tempImage.Dispose();
System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetImage(bmp);
stream.Dispose();
}

Just pick a random color to use it as background, let's say
var background = Color.FromArgb(1, 255, 1, 255);
Erase background to it:
g.Clear(background); // instead of System.Drawing.Color.White
Then make that color transparent:
Bitmap tempImage = new Bitmap(blank);
tempImage.MakeTransparent(background);
Note that also default transparent color works pretty well, no need to pick a magic color (check if you need to Clear() background, it may be - I didn't check - default bitmap background):
g.Clear(Color.Transparent);
// ...
tempImage.MakeTransparent();
EDIT Some older RTF control versions won't handle transparency and there is nothing (AFAIK) you can do for it. A half decent workaround (if you can't detect control class of paste target and read its background color) is to use Color.FromArgb(254, 255, 255, 255). White where transparency isn't supported and...completely transparent (because of MakeTransparent()) where it is.

The Windows clipboard, by default, does not support transparency, but you can put content on the clipboard in many types together to make sure most applications find some type in it that they can use. Generally, if, in addition to the normal nontransparent clipboard Bitmap format, you put the image on the clipboard in both PNG and DIB formats, most applications will be able to use at least one of them to get the image in a format they support as being transparent.
These formats are put on the clipboard in a specific way, though. They need to have their data (for png, that's not the loaded image object but the actual png file's bytes) put in a MemoryStream that is then put on the clipboard.
PNG put on the clipboard like that will be accepted by a multitude of applications, including Gimp and the newer MS Office. And of course, if you implement reading for it too, you can use it in your own application. The (rather dirty) DIB format should take care of most other applications, if they indeed support transparent image pasting at all.
I detailed how to do both the copying and the retrieving in this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/46424800/395685

Make overlapping picturebox transparent in C#.net

I have two overlapping pictureboxes.The images of both picture boxes have some transparent pixels.I want to see the bottom picture box through the transparent pixels of the overlapping picture box.
I tried setting the background color of both picture boxes as transparent.But it just sets the back color of the picture box to the background color of the form.

Clearly you are using Winforms. Yes, transparency is simulated by drawing the pixels of the Parent. Which is the form, you only see the form pixels, stacking effects don't work. There's a KB article that shows a workaround for this. It is painful. Another approach is to not use PictureBox controls but just draw the images in the form's Paint event.
Consider WPF, it has a very different rendering model that easily supports transparency.

Solutions to that problem might be various, and it mainly depends on your skills and amount of work will depend on kind of images you're dealing with. For example if images are always same resolution, size and overlapping image supports transparency you could try to do manipulation of two Image objects and draw one over another, then display it in PictureBox. Or if you will need to do it multiple times in various places of your app you could even consider creating your own UserContriol.
Code in answer of this question, method ResizeImagein particular, show how to create resized, good quality image, all you need it is to change it a little. Make it to get two Images as input parameters, and change it to draw one image over another.
Changes might look like this
public static Bitmap CombineAndResizeTwoImages(Image image1, Image image2, int width, int height)
{
//a holder for the result
Bitmap result = new Bitmap(width, height);
//use a graphics object to draw the resized image into the bitmap
using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(result))
{
//set the resize quality modes to high quality
graphics.CompositingQuality = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
graphics.InterpolationMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
graphics.SmoothingMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.SmoothingMode.HighQuality;
//draw the images into the target bitmap
graphics.DrawImage(image1, 0, 0, result.Width, result.Height);
graphics.DrawImage(image2, 0, 0, result.Width, result.Height);
}
//return the resulting bitmap
return result;
}
And use it, for example, like this:
pictureBox1.Image = CombineAndResizeTwoImages(Image.FromFile("c:\\a.png"), Image.FromFile("c:\\b.png"), 100,100);
But that its only example, and you must tune it up to your needs.
Good luck.

If it's one PictureBox inside another, you can use:
innerPictureBox.SendToBack();
innerPictureBox.Parent = outerPictureBox;

Render a section of an image to a Bitmap C# Winforms

I'm working on a Map Editor for an XNA game I'm designing in my free time. The pieces of art used in the map are stored on a single texture and rectangles are stored with coordinates and widths etc.
In the winforms application I can add segments by selecting the segment I want from a listbox, which is populated from the array of possible segments.
Problem is I would like to be able to show a preview of the segment selected and, since it is stored on a common texture, I cant simply set a picturebox to display the image.
Is there anyway of using the rectangle information (.x, .y, .width, .height) to display only the section of the image in a picturebox, or to blit the section to a bitmap and display that?
Many Thanks
Michael Allen

You probably want to look into the GDI library. Using the Image or Bitmap object and the Graphics.DrawImage() together will get what you're looking for.
private void DrawImageRectRect(PaintEventArgs e)
{
// Create image.
Image newImage = Image.FromFile("SampImag.jpg");
// Create rectangle for displaying image.
Rectangle destRect = new Rectangle(100, 100, 450, 150);
// Create rectangle for source image.
Rectangle srcRect = new Rectangle(50, 50, 150, 150);
GraphicsUnit units = GraphicsUnit.Pixel;
// Draw image to screen.
e.Graphics.DrawImage(newImage, destRect, srcRect, units);
}
You also might be interested in using XNA within your WinForm instead of using PictureBoxes and GDI. It's not 100% supported yet, but a tutorial on that can be found here.

You can use Graphics.DrawImage() and that will accept a Rectangle.