How to create a Bitmap deep copy

Question

I\'m dealing with Bitmaps in my application and for some purposes I need to create a deep copy of the Bitmap. Is there an elegant way how to do it?

I tried

Answer 1

Another way I stumbled on that achieves the same thing is to rotate or flip the image. Under the hood that seems to create a completely new copy of the bitmap. Doing two rotations or flips lets you end up with an exact copy of the original image.

result.RotateFlip(RotateFlipType.Rotate180FlipX);
result.RotateFlip(RotateFlipType.Rotate180FlipX);