SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing

ImageSharp.Drawing provides extensions to ImageSharp containing powerful, cross-platform 2D polygon manipulation and drawing APIs.

Designed to democratize image processing, ImageSharp.Drawing brings you an incredibly powerful yet beautifully simple API.

Built against .NET 6, ImageSharp.Drawing can be used in device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios.

License

ImageSharp.Drawing is licensed under the Six Labors Split License, Version 1.0

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Documentation

Detailed documentation for the ImageSharp.Drawing API is available. This includes additional conceptual documentation to help you get started.
Our Samples Repository is also available containing buildable code samples demonstrating common activities.

Questions?

Do you have questions? We are happy to help! Please join our Discussions Forum, or ask them on stackoverflow using the ImageSharp tag. Do not open issues for questions!
Please read our Contribution Guide before opening issues or pull requests!

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information, see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

Installation

Install stable releases via NuGet; development releases are available via MyGet.

Package Name	Release (NuGet)	Nightly (MyGet)
`SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing`

Manual build

If you prefer, you can compile ImageSharp.Drawing yourself (please do and help!)

Using Visual Studio 2022
- Make sure you have the latest version installed
- Make sure you have the .NET 7 SDK installed

Alternatively, you can work from command line and/or with a lightweight editor on both Linux/Unix and Windows:

Visual Studio Code with C# Extension
the .NET 7 SDK

To clone ImageSharp.Drawing locally, click the "Clone in [YOUR_OS]" button above or run the following git commands:

git clone https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp.Drawing

If working with Windows please ensure that you have enabled log file paths in git (run as Administrator).

git config --system core.longpaths true

Submodules

This repository contains git submodules. To add the submodules to the project, navigate to the repository root and type:

git submodule update --init --recursive

How can you help?

Please... Spread the word, contribute algorithms, submit performance improvements, unit tests, no input is too little. Make sure to read our Contribution Guide before opening a PR.