Working with images
ImageSharp is a third-party cross-platform 2D graphics library. When .NET Core 1.0 was in development, there was negative feedback from the community about the missing System.Drawing
namespace for working with 2D images. The ImageSharp project was started to fill that gap for modern .NET applications.
In their official documentation for System.Drawing
, Microsoft says, “The System.Drawing
namespace is not recommended for new development due to not being supported within a Windows or ASP.NET service, and it is not cross-platform. ImageSharp and SkiaSharp are recommended as alternatives.”
SixLabors released ImageSharp 2.0 on February 7, 2022, with WebP, Tiff, and Pbm format support, more efficient and faster memory pooling and allocation, and massive performance improvements for their JPEG and PNG formats. You can read the announcement at the following link: https://sixlabors.com/posts/announcing-imagesharp-200/.