Adjust brightness contrast and gamma of an image

Question

What is an easy way to adjust brightness contrast and gamma of an Image in .NET

Will post the answer myself to find it later.

Answer 1

c# and gdi+ have a simple way to control the colors that are drawn. It’s basically a ColorMatrix. It’s a 5×5 matrix that is applied to each color if it is set. Adjusting brightness is just performing a translate on the color data, and contrast is performing a scale on the color. Gamma is a whole different form of transform, but it’s included in ImageAttributes which accepts the ColorMatrix.

Bitmap originalImage;
Bitmap adjustedImage;
float brightness = 1.0f; // no change in brightness
float contrast = 2.0f; // twice the contrast
float gamma = 1.0f; // no change in gamma

float adjustedBrightness = brightness - 1.0f;
// create matrix that will brighten and contrast the image
float[][] ptsArray ={
        new float[] {contrast, 0, 0, 0, 0}, // scale red
        new float[] {0, contrast, 0, 0, 0}, // scale green
        new float[] {0, 0, contrast, 0, 0}, // scale blue
        new float[] {0, 0, 0, 1.0f, 0}, // don't scale alpha
        new float[] {adjustedBrightness, adjustedBrightness, adjustedBrightness, 0, 1}};

ImageAttributes imageAttributes = new ImageAttributes();
imageAttributes.ClearColorMatrix();
imageAttributes.SetColorMatrix(new ColorMatrix(ptsArray), ColorMatrixFlag.Default, ColorAdjustType.Bitmap);
imageAttributes.SetGamma(gamma, ColorAdjustType.Bitmap);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(adjustedImage);
g.DrawImage(originalImage, new Rectangle(0,0,adjustedImage.Width,adjustedImage.Height)
    ,0,0,originalImage.Width,originalImage.Height,
    GraphicsUnit.Pixel, imageAttributes);