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Aspose.Imaging .NET API allows to easy grayscale your images or photos in your .NET application or Web service.

You can:

• easily grayscale (transform to shades of gray) your images and save to specified format.

Interested ?

You may go further at : https://products.aspose.com/imaging/net/

grayscale-images.cs

using Aspose.Imaging;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Bmp;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Dicom;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Emf;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Jpeg;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Jpeg2000;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Png;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Psd;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Tiff.Enums;
using Aspose.Imaging.ImageFilters.FilterOptions;
using Aspose.Imaging.ImageOptions;
using Aspose.Imaging.Masking;
using Aspose.Imaging.Masking.Options;
using Aspose.Imaging.Masking.Result;
using Aspose.Imaging.Sources;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

string templatesFolder = @"c:\Users\USER\Downloads";
GrayscaleImages();

void GrayscaleImages()
{
    List<string> rasterFormats = new List<string>() { "jpg", "png", "bmp", "apng", "dicom",
            "jp2", "j2k", "tga", "webp", "tif", "gif","ico" };
    List<string> vectorFormats = new List<string>() { "svg", "otg", "odg", "eps", "wmf", "emf", "wmz", "emz", "cmx", "cdr" };

    List<string> allFormats = new List<string>(rasterFormats);
    allFormats.AddRange(vectorFormats);

    allFormats.ForEach(
        formatExt =>
        {
            var inputFile = Path.Combine(templatesFolder, $"template.{formatExt}");
            bool isVectorFormat = vectorFormats.IndexOf(formatExt) > -1;

            //Need to rasterize vector formats before background remove
            if (isVectorFormat)
            {
                inputFile = RasterizeVectorImage(formatExt, inputFile);
            }

            var outputFile = Path.Combine(templatesFolder, $"grayscale_{formatExt}.png");

            Console.WriteLine($"Processing {formatExt}");

            using (var image = (RasterImage)Image.Load(inputFile))
            {
                //Additional code examples can be found at
                //https://apireference.aspose.com/imaging/net/aspose.imaging/rasterimage/methods/grayscale
                image.Grayscale();

                //If image is multipage save each page to png to demonstrate results
                if (image is IMultipageImage multiPage && multiPage.PageCount > 1)
                {                            
                    for (var pageIndex = 0; pageIndex < multiPage.PageCount; pageIndex++)
                    {
                        string fileName = $"grayscale_page{pageIndex}_{formatExt}.png";
                        multiPage.Pages[pageIndex].Save(templatesFolder + fileName, new PngOptions());
			File.Delete(templatesFolder + fileName);
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    image.Save(outputFile, new PngOptions());
                    File.Delete(outputFile);
                }
            }

            //Remove rasterized vector image
            if (isVectorFormat)
            {
                File.Delete(inputFile);
            }
        }
        );
}

string RasterizeVectorImage(string formatExt, string inputFile)
{
    string outputFile = Path.Combine(templatesFolder, $"rasterized.{formatExt}.png");
    using (var image = Image.Load(inputFile))
    {                
        image.Save(outputFile, new PngOptions());
    }

    return outputFile;
}