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**ImageSharp** is a new, fully featured, fully managed, cross-platform, 2D graphics API designed to allow the processing of images without the use of `System.Drawing` . We have been able to develop something much more flexible, easier to code against, and much, much less prone to memory leaks. Gone are system-wide process-locks; ImageSharp images are thread-safe and fully supported in web environments.
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**ImageSharp** is a new, fully featured, fully managed, cross-platform, 2D graphics API designed to allow the processing of images.
Without the use of `System.Drawing` we have been able to develop something much more flexible, easier to code against, and much, much less prone to memory leaks. Gone are system-wide process-locks; ImageSharp images are thread-safe and fully supported in web environments.
Built against .Net Standard 1.1 ImageSharp can be used in device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios.