How to reduce the size of an image in C# and .NET 3.5?

Question

I have a screen shot I take in my mobile app. The screen shot takes about 32 KB when saved as a png on a disk.

I am sending these to a central SQL Server and 32 KB

Answer 1

If monochrome image is acceptable, you can try TIFF G4 (lossless compression). TIFF G4 is known for being very effective in file size to store black and white image. Unfortunately I dont have any info available on how it compares to PNG, but worth investigating into it.

Here is the info and example on how to do it in C#