ImageSharp is a high-performance, fully managed, cross-platform 2D graphics API.
ImageSharp is a mature, fully featured, high-performance image processing and graphics library for .NET, built for workloads across device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios.
Designed from the ground up to balance performance, portability, and ease of use, ImageSharp provides a powerful yet approachable API for common image processing tasks, along with the low-level building blocks needed to extend the library for specialized workflows.
Built against
, ImageSharp can be used in device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios.
License
ImageSharp is licensed under the
Six Labors Split License, Version 1.0
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Documentation
for the ImageSharp API is available. This includes additional conceptual documentation to help you get started.
Our
is also available containing buildable code samples demonstrating common activities.
Questions
Do you have questions? Please
. Do not open issues for questions.
For feature ideas please
and we'll be happy to discuss.
Please read our
before opening issues or pull requests!
Code of Conduct
This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the
to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information, see the
.NET Foundation Code of Conduct
.
Installation
Install stable releases via Nuget; development releases are available via MyGet.
Package NameRelease (NuGet)Nightly (Feedz.io)SixLabors.ImageSharp
Manual build
If you prefer, you can compile ImageSharp yourself (please do and help!)
Using
Make sure you have the latest version installed
Make sure you have
installed
Alternatively, you can work from command line and/or with a lightweight editor on both Linux/Unix and Windows:
with
To clone ImageSharp locally, click the "Clone in [YOUR_OS]" button above or run the following git commands:
git clone https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharpThen set the following config to ensure blame commands ignore mass reformatting commits.
git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revsIf working with Windows please ensure that you have enabled long file paths in git (run as Administrator).
git config --system core.longpaths trueThis repository uses
. Please follow the linked instructions to ensure you have it set up in your environment.
This repository contains
. To add the submodules to the project, navigate to the repository root and type:
git submodule update --init --recursiveHow can you help?
Please... Spread the word, contribute algorithms, submit performance improvements, unit tests, no input is too little. Make sure to read our
before opening a PR.
Useful tools for development and links to specifications can be found in our wikipage:
.
The ImageSharp Team
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Special thanks to
for supporting us with open-source licenses for their IDEs.