Find image format using Bitmap object in C#

Question

I am loading the binary bytes of the image file hard drive and loading it into a Bitmap object. How do i find the image type[JPEG, PNG, BMP etc] from the Bitmap object?

Answer 1

here is my code for this. You have to load the complete image or the header (first 4 bytes) to a byte array first.

public enum ImageFormat
{
    Bmp,
    Jpeg,
    Gif,
    Tiff,
    Png,
    Unknown
}

public static ImageFormat GetImageFormat(byte[] bytes)
{
    // see http://www.mikekunz.com/image_file_header.html  
    var bmp    = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("BM");     // BMP
    var gif    = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("GIF");    // GIF
    var png    = new byte[] { 137, 80, 78, 71 };    // PNG
    var tiff   = new byte[] { 73, 73, 42 };         // TIFF
    var tiff2  = new byte[] { 77, 77, 42 };         // TIFF
    var jpeg   = new byte[] { 255, 216, 255, 224 }; // jpeg
    var jpeg2  = new byte[] { 255, 216, 255, 225 }; // jpeg canon

    if (bmp.SequenceEqual(bytes.Take(bmp.Length)))
        return ImageFormat.Bmp;

    if (gif.SequenceEqual(bytes.Take(gif.Length)))
        return ImageFormat.Gif;

    if (png.SequenceEqual(bytes.Take(png.Length)))
        return ImageFormat.Png;

    if (tiff.SequenceEqual(bytes.Take(tiff.Length)))
        return ImageFormat.Tiff;

    if (tiff2.SequenceEqual(bytes.Take(tiff2.Length)))
        return ImageFormat.Tiff;

    if (jpeg.SequenceEqual(bytes.Take(jpeg.Length)))
        return ImageFormat.Jpeg;

    if (jpeg2.SequenceEqual(bytes.Take(jpeg2.Length)))
        return ImageFormat.Jpeg;

    return ImageFormat.Unknown;
}