PixelFormat

System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat

Namespace: System.Drawing.Imaging

Assembly: System.Drawing.Managed (4.0.0.0)

Specifies the format of the color data for each pixel in the image.

C#

public enum PixelFormat : Enum

VB.NET

Fields

Name	Description
Alpha	Specifies that pixel data contains alpha values that are not pre-multiplied.
Canonical	The default pixel format of 32 bits per pixel. The format specifies 24-bit color depth and an 8-bit alpha channel.
DontCare	Specifies that pixel format is a don't care.
Extended	Reserved.
Format16bppArgb1555	Specifies that pixel format is 16 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 32768 shades of color of which 5 bits are red, 5 bits are green, 5 bits are blue and 1 bit is alpha.
Format16bppGrayScale	The pixel format is 16 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 65536 shades of gray.
Format16bppRgb555	Specifies that pixel format is 16 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 65536 shades of gray.
Format16bppRgb565	Specifies that pixel format is 16 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 32768 shades of color of which 5 bits are red, 5 bits are green and 5 bits are blue.
Format1bppIndexed	Specifies that pixel format is 1 bit per pixel indexed color. The color table therefore has two colors in it.
Format24bppRgb	Specifies that pixel format is 24 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 16777216 shades of color of which 8 bits are red, 8 bits are green and 8 bits are blue.
Format32bppArgb	Specifies that pixel format is 32 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 16777216 shades of color of which 8 bits are red, 8 bits are green and 8 bits are blue. The 8 additional bits are alpha bits.
Format32bppPArgb	Specifies that pixel format is 32 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 16777216 shades of color of which 8 bits are red, 8 bits are green and 8 bits are blue. The 8 additional bits are pre-multiplied alpha bits.
Format32bppRgb	Specifies that pixel format is 24 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 16777216 shades of color of which 8 bits are red, 8 bits are green and 8 bits are blue.
Format48bppRgb	Specifies that pixel format is 48 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 16777216 shades of color of which 8 bits are red, 8 bits are green and 8 bits are blue. The 8 additional bits are alpha bits.
Format4bppIndexed	Specifies that pixel format is 4 bits per pixel indexed color. The color table therefore has 16 colors in it.
Format64bppArgb	Specifies pixel format is 64 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 16777216 shades of color of which 16 bits are red, 16 bits are green and 16 bits are blue. The 16 additional bits are alpha bits.
Format64bppPArgb	Specifies that pixel format is 64 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 16777216 shades of color of which 16 bits are red, 16 bits are green and 16 bits are blue. The 16 additional bits are pre-multiplied alpha bits.
Format8bppIndexed	Specifies that pixel format is 8 bits per pixel indexed color. The color table therefore has 256 colors in it.
Gdi	Specifies that pixel data contains GDI colors.
Indexed	Specifies that pixel data contains color indexed values which means they are an index to colors in the system color table, as opposed to individual color values.
Max	Specifies that pixel format is 64 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 16777216 shades of color of which 16 bits are red, 16 bits are green and 16 bits are blue. The 16 additional bits are alpha bits.
PAlpha	Specifies that pixel format contains pre-multiplied alpha values.
Undefined	Specifies that pixel format is undefined.

Used By

Name	Description
Bitmap.Clone	Creates a copy of the section of this Bitmap defined by with a specified PixelFormat.
Bitmap.LockBits	Locks a portion of the bitmap for direct pixel manipulation.
Image.PixelFormat	Gets the pixel format for this Image.
Image.GetPixelFormatSize	Returns the color depth, in number of bits per pixel, of the specified pixel format.
Image.IsAlphaPixelFormat	Returns a value that indicates whether the pixel format for this Image contains alpha information.
Image.IsExtendedPixelFormat	Returns a value that indicates whether the pixel format is 64 bits per pixel.
Image.IsCanonicalPixelFormat	Returns a value that indicates whether the pixel format is 32 bits per pixel.
BitmapData.PixelFormat	Gets or sets the format of the pixel information in this Bitmap.