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Use Bitmap Effects to add visual interest to rendered Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) content. For example, dress up buttons with a shadow (DropShadowBitmapEffect), or soften images with a blur effect.

Microsoft provides several native effects, like Blur, DropShadow, OuterGlow, Bevel, Emboss. Leadtools.Windows.Media.Effects takes advantage of LEAD's WPF support for over 110 Image Processing Functions like Low- and High-level image processing routines, color adjustment, region processing, image analysis and statistics, adding over 200 custom Bitmap Effects, including including edge, noise, artistic, texture, spatial, color adjustments and 3D.

For Example, this image shows a WPF button, with Microsoft's OuterGlow and LEAD's BricksTexture Bitmap Effects applied:

These image processing functions are separated into four categories: Transforms, Colors/Intensities, Conversions, and Filters.

Key Features:

Change the appearance of the image in a bitmap:

Adjust colors and intensities:

Apply conversions:

Apply filters to:

Supported Environments

Leadtools.Windows.Media.Effects comes in Win32 and x64 editions that can support development of software applications for any of the following environments:

Note that in order for a WPF application to run, Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 must be installed on the client. Internet Explorer 7 can auto-detect whether Framework is installed under certain conditions. For more information, refer to Deploying a WPF Application (WPF).

LEADTOOLS for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

LEADTOOLS WPF Express includes controls for everything you need to start adding imaging functions to your WPF applications.

  • The WPF BitmapSource Viewer provides support for common image file formats via the Microsoft .NET BitmapSource object, and includes image Display, Scroll, Zoom, Frame, FrameShadow, and MagGlass  features.
  • The ImageList control lets you display lists of thumbnail images in Explorer View Style, and set their scroll style.
  • Full documentation for all Windows Presentation Foundation functionality supported by all LEADTOOLS products lets you see exactly what you will get if you decide to upgrade. Individual class members that are installed with and supported by the WPF Express toolkit are noted, and indicated on member summary pages by the WPF Express icon shown at left.

Ready to do more?

LEADTOOLS WPF Standard Edition adds:

  • WPF Bitmap Effects. Use 200+ Bitmap Effects and image processing functions to add visual interest to WPF content.
  • Windows Imaging Component (WIC) Codecs. Instantly add support for 40+ file formats to any WIC/WPF application, including the Windows XP SP3 Explorer and Vista Photo Explorer.
  • An enhanced WPF Viewer and Image List Control that supports:
    •  all image file formats available via the Microsoft .NET BitmapSource object.
    • fully styleable, Expression Blend-compatible controls. 
    • additional viewer control and UI features like Frame, Shadow, and PanWindow.
    • interactive UI Tools like ZoomTo, Pan, CenterAt, and Scale.
    • customizable MagGlass options.
    • ImageList Item Size, Selection Style, and multiple View Styles like Normal, Button,and User-defined.

Want the full power of LEADTOOLS Imaging for your WPF applications?

Use the LEADTOOLS WPF Module to unleash the power of LEADTOOLS in your XAML applications. Using LEAD’s WPF interface, you can add LEADTOOLS OCR, TWAIN scanning, document pre-processing, medical imaging, and much more to any WPF application, and complete interoperation support between LEADTOOLS and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) images.

This modular add-on for LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro, Document Imaging, and Medical Imaging SDKS includes all the Windows Presentation Foundation functionality supported by the LEADTOOLS WPF Standard Edition, plus:

  • Our most advanced WPF Image Viewer. This viewer not only supports all Microsoft .NET BitmapSource image objects, but works directly with LEADTOOLS Raster Pro .NET classes, allowing you to leverage the full power of LEADTOOLS file format and image processing support. The fully styleable control includes scroll, zoom, pan, magnify glass, and image list.
  • Our most advanced Image Processing.  Over 200 Image Processing Functions including edge, blur, noise, artistic, texture, spatial, color adjustments and 3D. Low and High level image processing routines for document, medical, color adjustment, region processing, image analysis and statistics.
  • The most comprehensivesupport for File Formats.  Support even more file formats and flavors, as well as file metadata.  Extend WPF file format support for LEAD’s WIC-enabled codecs to include all formats and subformats, low-level control for file load and save, file metadata support (tags and cooments, and many more image formats, including PDF, TIFF, lossless and lossy JPEG, JPEG2000, JBIG2, PSD, and DICOM.

With LEADTOOLS SDKs, developers can harness the robust power of LEADTOOLS extensive file format support and image processing features, while taking advantage of the newest UI development features provided by WPF. LEADTOOLS SDKs include WPF source code examples, making the integration of many years of LEADTOOLS imaging expertise into the latest Microsoft WPF technology a simple task.

Raster Imaging Pro

LEADOOLS Raster Imaging SDKs support image processing (transforms, filters, drawing), display, special effects, and compression for 150+ file formats, including JPEG, JPEG 2000 [read], TIFF, CCITT G4 and LEAD's proprietary CMP, CMW, and ABC.

Key Features:

  • .NET 3.0. LEADTOOLS now supports the .NET 3.0 Framework. A new conversion class allows developers to convert the LEAD RasterImage class to and from the .NET 3.0 BitmapSource class. Your WPF-based applications can now leverage the power of LEADTOOLS image processing and file input / output functionality. Now also includes an advanced version of the WPF (XAML) Viewer control which works directly with the RasterImage class.
  • File Format Support. Read, write and convert image files in over 150 of the most popular standard image formats, including JPEG, JPEG 2000 [read], GIF, TIFF (including G3/G4, LZW, CMYK, JTIF), PNG, BMP, MODCA/IOCA, PCX, TGA, and XPS.
  • Image Compression. Contains classes for loading/saving image and non-image data to the multiple image file formats supported by LEADTOOLS. Support includes palettes, memory files, multi-page files, compressed files, comments, tags, animation, view perspectives, raw image data, compressed data, alpha channel, and others. This namespace also provides classes to load files from a network source in an asynchronous manner. This includes FeedLoad and stream (URL) support
  • Image Processing. Use more than 120 digital filters and transforms to process images. Includes smooth, sharpen, edge detect/enhance, modify brightness/contrast/gamma, change hue and saturation, red-eye removal, unsharp mask, add noise, and resize and rotate images using various resampling techniques (including bicubic). Over half of all image functions support both signed and unsigned images.
  • Image Display. Control brightness and contrast settings, color reduction with dithering and palette control, zooming/scaling/fitting, panning, scrolling, and painting with transparency. Additionally, LEADTOOLS provides image-list and thumbnail browser controls, a special magnifying-glass feature, as well as an automated pan-window control.
  • Leadtools.Codecs. Support includes palettes, memory files, multi-page files, compressed files, comments, tags, animation, view perspectives, raw image data, compressed data, and alpha channel.
  • The Leadtools.Winforms.RasterImageViewer control supports data binding, a fast, easy way to connect to databases. All LEADTOOLS filters have data binding support for loading and saving.

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