c# - Rotate photo with SkiaSharp

Question

I'm trying to rotate photo with SkiaSharp to 90 degrees with following code:

    public SKBitmap Rotate()
    {
        var bitmap = SKBitmap.Decode("test.jpg");
        using (var surface = new SKCanvas(bitmap))
        {
            surface.RotateDegrees(90, bitmap.Width / 2, bitmap.Height / 2);
            surface.DrawBitmap(bitmap.Copy(), 0, 0);
        }

        return bitmap;
     }

But when I save bitmap to JPEG file, it has margins both on top and bottom of image.

Original image: http://imgur.com/pGAuko8. Rotated image: http://imgur.com/bYxpmI7.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You may want to do something like this:

public static SKBitmap Rotate()
{
    using (var bitmap = SKBitmap.Decode("test.jpg"))
    {
        var rotated = new SKBitmap(bitmap.Height, bitmap.Width);

        using (var surface = new SKCanvas(rotated))
        {
            surface.Translate(rotated.Width, 0);
            surface.RotateDegrees(90);
            surface.DrawBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0);
        }

        return rotated;
    }
}

The reason for this (or yours not working as expected) is that you are rotating the bitmap on itself. You have basically taken an image, and then made a copy on draw it onto the first image. Thus, you still have the margins from the image below.

What I did was to create a NEW bitmap and then draw the decoded bitmap onto that.

The second "issue" is that you are rotating the image, but you are not changing the canvas dimensions. If the bitmap is 50x100, and then you rotate 90 degrees, the bitmap is now 100x50. As you can't actually change the dimensions of a bitmap once created, you have to create a new one. You can see this in the output image as it is actually cropped off a bit.

Hope this helps.