Converting a bitmap to monochrome

Question

I am trying to save an image as monochrome (black&white, 1 bit-depth) but I\'m coming up lost how to do it.

I am starting with a png and converting to a bitmap f

Answer 1

What you want is a good dithering algorithm like Floyd-Steinberg or Bayer ordered. You can either implement the binarization yourself or use a library like AForge.NET to do it for you (download the image processing samples). You can find the binarization documentation here.