C# - How to change PNG quality or color depth

Question

I am supposed to write a program that gets some PNG images from the user, does some simple edits like rotation and saves them inside a JAR file so that it can use the images as resources. The problem is when I open, say an 80kb image and then save it with C#, I get an image with the same quality but for 130kb space. And because it has to go inside a J2ME jar file I really need lower sizes, at least the original size. I tried the code below but later found out that it only works for Jpeg images.

ImageCodecInfo[] codecs = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders();
                int j = 0;
                for (j = 0; j < codecs.Length; j++)
                {
                    if (codecs[j].MimeType == "image/png") break;
                }
                EncoderParameter ratio = new EncoderParameter(System.Drawing.Imaging.Encoder.Quality, 10L);
                EncoderParameters CodecParams = new EncoderParameters(1);
                CodecParams.Param[0] = ratio;

                Image im;
                im = pictureBox1.Image;
                im.Save(address , codecs[j], CodecParams);

This is where the image is loaded to a picture box:

private void pictureBox1_DoubleClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
            {
                string address = openFileDialog1.FileName;
                address.Replace("\\", "\\\\");
                Image im = Image.FromFile(address);
                pictureBox1.Image = im;
            }
        }

And this is where it's being saved back with no edits:

private void generateToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
            {

                ImageCodecInfo[] codecs = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders();
                int j = 0;
                for (j = 0; j < codecs.Length; j++)
                {
                    if (codecs[j].MimeType == "image/png") break;
                }
                EncoderParameter ratio = new EncoderParameter(System.Drawing.Imaging.Encoder.Quality, 10L);
                EncoderParameters CodecParams = new EncoderParameters(1);
                CodecParams.Param[0] = ratio;

                string address = folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath;
                address = address + "\\";
                address.Replace("\\", "\\\\");

                Image im;
                im = pictureBox1.Image;               
                im.Save(address + imageFileNames[1], codecs[j], CodecParams);

Note: imageFileNames[] is just a string array that has some of the the file names to which the images must be saved with.

Any ideas will be appreciated and thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Sorry for bringing up an old question, but I were solving the same problem today and found this page on MSDN: "Listing Parameters and Values for All Encoders". I hope it might be useful to refer to it there.

The article contains a sample program which outputs EncoderParameters supported by stock GDI+ image encoders, and PNG encoder supports no parameters according to it.

I'm not sure thought if one can take this for granted, or in some future version of gdiplus.dll the PNG encoder might grow more support, and so one is supposed to check the encoder's capabilities at runtime.

In any case applying some explicit transformation on a source image appears to be more fruitful approach; I did not explore it yet though.