Set background color in Bitmap Image

Question

I want to save my canvas to image. It works but background color is black. How I must add to change the color?

I use this code:

Size size = new Size(surface.Width, surface.Height);

surface.Measure(size);
surface.Arrange(new Rect(size));

// Create a render bitmap and push the surface to it
RenderTargetBitmap renderBitmap =
    new RenderTargetBitmap((int)size.Width, (int)size.Height, 96d, 96d,
                           PixelFormats.Pbgra32);
renderBitmap.Render(surface);

// Create a file stream for saving image
using (FileStream outStream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Create))
{
    BmpBitmapEncoder encoder = new BmpBitmapEncoder();
    // push the rendered bitmap to it
    encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(renderBitmap));
    // save the data to the stream
    encoder.Save(outStream);
}

Answer 1

Try this

Size size = new Size(surface.Width, surface.Height);

surface.Measure(size);
surface.Arrange(new Rect(size));

// Create a render bitmap and push the surface to it
RenderTargetBitmap renderBitmap =
    new RenderTargetBitmap((int)size.Width, (int)size.Height, 96d, 96d,
                           PixelFormats.Pbgra32);

DrawingVisual drawingVisual = new DrawingVisual();
using (DrawingContext drawingContext = drawingVisual.RenderOpen())
{
    VisualBrush visualBrush = new VisualBrush(surface);
    drawingContext.DrawRectangle(visualBrush, null, 
      new Rect(new Point(), new Size(size.Width, size.Height)));
}

renderBitmap.Render(drawingVisual);

// Create a file stream for saving image
using (FileStream outStream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Create))
{
    BmpBitmapEncoder encoder = new BmpBitmapEncoder();
    // push the rendered bitmap to it
    encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(renderBitmap));
    // save the data to the stream
    encoder.Save(outStream);
}

Answer 2

Try PixelFormats.Default or PixelFormats.Bgra32 or PixelFormats.Rgb24 instead of PixelFormats.Pbgra32 .

The P stands for pre-multiplied - the assumption is that each channel is pre-multiplied by alpha.

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