I want to draw a circle with DrawEllipse
on a specified Bitmap
, with the same size of the Bitmap, but the result is that the circle appears clipped at the edges.
Why this problem?
Bitmap layer = new Bitmap(80, 80);
using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(layer))
{
using (Pen p = new Pen(Color.Black, 4))
{
g.DrawEllipse(p, new Rectangle(0, 0, layer.Width, layer.Height));
}
}
pictureBox3.Size = new Size(100, 100);
pictureBox3.Image = layer;
By default a Pen has a PenAlignment.Center.
This means that half of its widh will draw outside the bounding rectangle.
You can simply avoid the issue by changing it to PenAlignment.Inset
:
using (Pen p = new Pen(Color.Black, 4) { Alignment = PenAlignment.Inset})
{
g.DrawEllipse(p, new Rectangle(0, 0, layer.Width, layer.Height));
}
Update: If you want to turn on smoothing for the Graphics object you will need 1 or 2 extra pixels on both sides of the pen stroke for the anti-aliasing pixels. Using a smaller bounding rectanlge can't be avoided now. But..:
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(Point.Empty, layer.Size);
rect.Inflate(-1, -1); // or -2
..should do..