Transition of images in Windows Forms Picture box

Question

I\'m new to Windows Forms, in my project, i need to change the image in the picture box at runtime. I\'m able to do that with the help of a timer. The picture just gets chan

Answer 1

Blend effects are easy to get going by using the ColorMatrix class. There's a good example available in my answer in this thread.

A simple way to get a blur is to resize the image, making it smaller, then redraw it back, making it larger. The Graphics.InterpolationMode property affects the type of blur you'll get.

Those are quicky do-it-yourself solutions. Any decent graphics library has these kind of operations built-in. You probably want something free, check out ImageMagick.NET