Saving BitmapSource as Tiff encoded JPEG using Libtiff.net

Question

I'm trying to write a routine that will save a WPF BitmapSource as a JPEG encoded TIFF using LibTiff.net. Using the examples provided with LibTiff I came up with the following:

private void SaveJpegTiff(BitmapSource source, string filename)
    {

        if (source.Format != PixelFormats.Rgb24) source = new FormatConvertedBitmap(source, PixelFormats.Rgb24, null, 0);


        using (Tiff tiff = Tiff.Open(filename, "w"))
        {
            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.IMAGEWIDTH, source.PixelWidth);
            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.IMAGELENGTH, source.PixelHeight);
            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.COMPRESSION, Compression.JPEG);
            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.PHOTOMETRIC, Photometric.RGB);

            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.ROWSPERSTRIP, source.PixelHeight);

            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.XRESOLUTION,  source.DpiX);
            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.YRESOLUTION, source.DpiY);

            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.BITSPERSAMPLE, 8);
            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.SAMPLESPERPIXEL, 3);

            tiff.SetField(TiffTag.PLANARCONFIG, PlanarConfig.CONTIG);

            int stride = source.PixelWidth * ((source.Format.BitsPerPixel + 7) / 8);

            byte[] pixels = new byte[source.PixelHeight * stride];
            source.CopyPixels(pixels, stride, 0);

            for (int i = 0, offset = 0; i < source.PixelHeight; i++)
            {
                tiff.WriteScanline(pixels, offset, i, 0);
                offset += stride;
            }
        }

        MessageBox.Show("Finished");
    }

This converts the image and I can see a JPEG image but the colours are messed up. I'm guessing I'm missing a tag or two for the TIFF or something is wrong like the Photometric interpretation but am not entirely clear on what is needed.

Cheers,

Answer 1

It's not clear what do you mean by saying " colours are messed up" but probably you should convert BGR samples of BitmapSource to RGB ones expected by LibTiff.Net.

I mean, make sure the order of color channels is RGB (most probably, it's not) before feeding pixels to WriteScanline method.