Overview Feature Details Licensing Imaging Effects What's New

What's New

Version 4.0 New! Actions: Red-Eye Removal Feather Glow Fade BitmapMask RemovePixel ColorSubstitution Tint Emboss Solarize Pixelate FocalGrayscale FocalPixelate FocalSoften FocalTint MuseumMatteFrame ConvertToBlackWhite Sharpen Improved! Actions: RoundCorners: Now you can specify what of the four corners should be rounded given you more flexibility for generating great looking effects. Polaroid: Added border width setting as well as selection on what corners should be rounded. New! WordArtElement object featuring text fills as well as warping shapes like Fade, Slant, Cascade, Circle Path, Custom Quadrilateral, etc. New! Added other gradient fills to Fill class allowing to create advanced gradients fitting paths as well as blending support. New! Output Composite Image resolution (DPI) support. A feature for high quality printing scenarios. New! Elements now features the ability for generating output bitmap images including DPI support without the need of creating a composite ImageDraw object. New! Multipage TIFF support. Added MultipageIndex property to ImageElement class to easily handle multipage image formats. New! ASP.NET Mobile Support by including Wireless Bitmap (WBMP) output image generation. New! Added flexible roundness to Rounded Rectangle Shapes so you can specify what of the four corners should be rounded. New! Added support for saving output images Wireless Bitmap (WBMP) format. New! Added support for saving output images in Monochrome or Black & White 1bpp format. New! Added Actions/Effects support to the output image generated by ImageDraw controls. New! Added OutputImageSize property to ImageDraw objects which lets you to get the size of the output image in pixel unit. New! Added GetSize() method to Element-derived classes which returns the element's size without applying any actions onto it. New! ImageElement objects now preserve source image metadata such as EXIF tags. New! Shape Elements' Stroke antialiasing can be disabled. Fixed! Removed the "Border Bug" when using Resize or Scale actions is applied. Version 3.0 New! Actions: Skew PerspectiveView CameraView GaussianBlur DistortCorners RemoveTransparency PerspectiveReflection AdjustHSL Improved! Actions: PerspectiveShadow (Softnees, Opacity, more realistic shadow) MakeTransparent (Color Tolerance) Crop (Center cropping) Resize (Fit) Polaroid (custom fonts support) New! TextElement improvements including Multiline text, text alignment, text quality, font unit, custom font files (TTF) support New! Auto Shapes including Polygons, Stars, Lines, Rectangles, Ovals, etc New! XML Template support New! Caching options including Disk and SQL Server Database New! Data Binding Model. Now all elements are available for data binding! New! Lightweight assemblies for deployment New! 64-bit support (x64 and IA64 Platforms) New! Name property added for identifying Element objects. All elements in the Elements Collection property of ImageDraw controls can be accessed by specifying its name identifier. New! Width and Height properties added to Element objects. When you set up those properties for an ImageElement object, the source image will be resized automatically. New! NullImageUrl property added for ImageElement objects. INFO! This version does no longer support ASP.NET 1.x Version 2.0 New! Architecture and Object Model New! Dynamic Image Composition Concept New! 25 Imaging Effects out-of-the-box: Adjust Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Hue, Saturation, Opacity; Convert To Grayscale, Negative, Sepia; Crop, Drop REAL Shadow, Flip, Make Transparent, Perspective Shadow, Resize, Scale, Rotate, Round Corners, Silhouette, Stretch, Decorative Border, Glass Table, Mail Stamp, Polaroid, and Filmstrip New! 3 (three) ASP.NET Image Server Controls - ImageDraw, ImageDrawButton, ImageDrawMap New! Input Image Formats support including GIF, JPG/JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, ICO, WMF, and EMF New! Support for any version of ASP.NET New! Design-time support for Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, Visual Web Developer Express, Borland Developer Studio including C# Builder and Delphi for .NET New! GIF & PNG Transparency support New! Built-in PNG Transparency support for Internet Explorer 5.x & 6.x New! Renders images embedded into ASP.NET Resources files (RESX) using ASP.NET Expressions New! SQL Server BLOB (Binary Large Object) Images Data Binding support New! XML Base64 String Images Data Binding support New! Save the Output Composite Image on disk and IO Streams New! Improve the appearance of your Visual Studio 2005 Local Reports (RDLC) New! Cross-browser support including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, FireFox, Opera, Safari and so on New! Visual Image Editor included New! Visual HotSpots Map Editor included New! Two Rendering Mechanisms New! Image Caching capabilities Version 1.1 New! Support for ASP.NET 2.0 New! Support for Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer Express New! License registration mechanism Fixed! When using in a web user control that is in a different folder level of the output ASP.NET webform, the image won’t be showed. Version 1.0 Initial release