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### **ImageSharp** is a high-performance, fully managed, cross-platform 2D graphics API.
ImageSharp is a mature, fully featured, high-performance image processing and graphics library for .NET, built for workloads across device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios.
Designed from the ground up to balance performance, portability, and ease of use, ImageSharp provides a powerful yet approachable API for common image processing tasks, along with the low-level building blocks needed to extend the library for specialized workflows.
Built against [.NET 8](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standard), ImageSharp can be used in device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios.
## License
- ImageSharp is licensed under the [Six Labors Split License, Version 1.0](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/main/LICENSE)
## Support Six Labors
Support the efforts of the development of the Six Labors projects.
- [Purchase a Commercial License :heart:](https://sixlabors.com/pricing/)
- [Become a sponsor via GitHub Sponsors :heart:]( https://github.com/sponsors/SixLabors)
- [Become a sponsor via Open Collective :heart:](https://opencollective.com/sixlabors)
## Documentation
- [Detailed documentation](https://sixlabors.github.io/docs/) for the ImageSharp API is available. This includes additional conceptual documentation to help you get started.
- Our [Samples Repository](https://github.com/SixLabors/Samples/tree/main/ImageSharp) is also available containing buildable code samples demonstrating common activities.
## Questions
- Do you have questions? Please [join our Discussions Forum](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/discussions/categories/q-a). Do not open issues for questions.
- For feature ideas please [join our Discussions Forum](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/discussions/categories/ideas) and we'll be happy to discuss.
- Please read our [Contribution Guide](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) before opening issues or pull requests!
## Code of Conduct
This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the [Contributor Covenant](https://contributor-covenant.org/) to clarify expected behavior in our community.
For more information, see the [.NET Foundation Code of Conduct](https://dotnetfoundation.org/code-of-conduct).
## Installation
Install stable releases via Nuget; development releases are available via MyGet.
| Package Name | Release (NuGet) | Nightly (Feedz.io) |
|--------------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| `SixLabors.ImageSharp` | [](https://www.nuget.org/packages/SixLabors.ImageSharp/) | [](https://f.feedz.io/sixlabors/sixlabors/nuget/index.json) |
## Manual build
If you prefer, you can compile ImageSharp yourself (please do and help!)
- Using [Visual Studio 2022](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/)
- Make sure you have the latest version installed
- Make sure you have [the .NET 8 SDK](https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#windows) installed
Alternatively, you can work from command line and/or with a lightweight editor on **both Linux/Unix and Windows**:
- [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) with [C# Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.csharp)
- [.NET Core](https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxubuntu)
To clone ImageSharp locally, click the "Clone in [YOUR_OS]" button above or run the following git commands:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp
```
Then set the following config to ensure blame commands ignore mass reformatting commits.
```bash
git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
```
If working with Windows please ensure that you have enabled long file paths in git (run as Administrator).
```bash
git config --system core.longpaths true
```
This repository uses [Git Large File Storage](https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-large-files/installing-git-large-file-storage). Please follow the linked instructions to ensure you have it set up in your environment.
This repository contains [Git Submodules](https://blog.github.com/2016-02-01-working-with-submodules/). To add the submodules to the project, navigate to the repository root and type:
``` bash
git submodule update --init --recursive
```
## How can you help?
Please... Spread the word, contribute algorithms, submit performance improvements, unit tests, no input is too little. Make sure to read our [Contribution Guide](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) before opening a PR.
Useful tools for development and links to specifications can be found in our wikipage: [Useful-tools-and-links](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/wiki/Useful-tools-and-links).
## The ImageSharp Team
- [James Jackson-South](https://github.com/jimbobsquarepants)
- [Dirk Lemstra](https://github.com/dlemstra)
- [Anton Firsov](https://github.com/antonfirsov)
- [Scott Williams](https://github.com/tocsoft)
- [Brian Popow](https://github.com/brianpopow)
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Special thanks to [JetBrains](https://www.jetbrains.com/?from=ImageSharp) for supporting us with open-source licenses for their IDEs.
