Base64 String from Bitmap

Question

I am reducing the quality of an image and saving it to the file system. I wish to return the new data of the image in Base64 string format. How can I do this?

Code:

var bitmap = new Bitmap(Base64ToImage(base64String));
var jgpEncoder = GetEncoder(ImageFormat.Jpeg);

var myEncoder = Encoder.Quality;
var myEncoderParameters = new EncoderParameters(1);

var myEncoderParameter = new EncoderParameter(myEncoder, Convert.ToInt64(75L));
myEncoderParameters.Param[0] = myEncoderParameter;

bitmap.Save(filePath, jgpEncoder, myEncoderParameters);

Update:

Would the following be an appropriate method?

// Convert the image to byte[]
var stream = new MemoryStream();
bitmap.Save(stream, ImageFormat.Jpg);
var imageBytes = stream.ToArray();

// Convert byte[] to Base64 String
var reducedQuality = Convert.ToBase64String(imageBytes);
return reducedQuality;

Answer 1

Instead of saving it to a file, save it to a MemoryStream . Then you can use:

string base64 = Convert.ToBase64String(stream.ToArray());

And to write the original binary data to a file:

using (var output = File.Create(filePath))
{
    stream.CopyTo(output);
}

Alternatively, you could use ToBase64Transform with a CryptoStream :

using (var output = new CryptoStream(File.Create(filePath),
                                     new ToBase64Transform())
{
    bitmap.Save(output, jpgEncoder, myEncoderParameters);
}

That should write it to the file directly as base64.