Generate High quality Thumbnail Images and Maintain Aspect Ratio

I was looking up for a simple thumbnail generator through which I can generate thumbnail images. I found some code and tried to implement that but thumb images look too ugly and stretched in most of the cases. Solution to good looking thumbnail is that we have to maintain aspect ratio of actual image in our thumbnail image otherwise thumbnail will look really bad. Here is the class through which you can easily generate high quality thumbnails.

using System;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Drawing.Imaging;

namespace ConsoleApplication1

{

    public class ThumbnailGenerator

    {

        /// <summary>

        /// Generates the thumbnail of given image.

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="actualImagePath">The actual image path.</param>

        /// <param name="thumbnailPath">The thumbnail path.</param>

        /// <param name="thumbWidth">Width of the thumb.</param>

        /// <param name="thumbHeight">Height of the thumb.</param>

        public static void Generate(string actualImagePath, string thumbnailPath, int thumbWidth, int thumbHeight)

        {

            Image orignalImage = Image.FromFile(actualImagePath);

            // Rotating image 360 degrees to discart internal thumbnail image

            orignalImage.RotateFlip(RotateFlipType.Rotate180FlipNone);

            orignalImage.RotateFlip(RotateFlipType.Rotate180FlipNone);

            // Here is the basic formula to mantain aspect ratio

            // thumbHeight   imageHeight     

            // ----------- = -----------   

            // thumbWidth    imageWidth 

            //

            // Now lets assume that image width is greater and height is less and calculate the new height

            // So as per formula given above

            int newHeight = orignalImage.Height * thumbWidth / orignalImage.Width;

            int newWidth = thumbWidth;

            // New height is greater than our thumbHeight so we need to keep height fixed and calculate the width accordingly

            if (newHeight > thumbHeight)

            {

                newWidth = orignalImage.Width * thumbHeight / orignalImage.Height;

                newHeight = thumbHeight;

            }

            //Generate a thumbnail image

            Image thumbImage = orignalImage.GetThumbnailImage(newWidth, newHeight, null, IntPtr.Zero);

            // Save resized picture

            var qualityEncoder = System.Drawing.Imaging.Encoder.Quality;

            var quality = (long)100; //Image Quality 

            var ratio = new EncoderParameter(qualityEncoder, quality);

            var codecParams = new EncoderParameters(1);

            codecParams.Param[0] = ratio;

            //Right now I am saving JPEG only you can choose other formats as well

            var codecInfo = GetEncoder(ImageFormat.Jpeg);

            thumbImage.Save(thumbnailPath, codecInfo, codecParams);

            // Dispose unnecessory objects

            orignalImage.Dispose();

            thumbImage.Dispose();

        }

        /// <summary>

        /// Gets the encoder for particulat image format.

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="format">Image format</param>

        /// <returns></returns>

        private static ImageCodecInfo GetEncoder(ImageFormat format)

        {

            ImageCodecInfo[] codecs = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageDecoders();

            foreach (ImageCodecInfo codec in codecs)

            {

                if (codec.FormatID == format.Guid)

                {

                    return codec;

                }

            }

            return null;

        }

    }

}

To use this class simply call Generate function of ThumbnailGenerator class. Here is a sample:-

ThumbnailGenerator.Generate(@"C:\images\myPicture.jpg", @"C:\images\myPictureThumb.jpg", 100, 150);