Equivalent of System.Drawing.Bitmap.LockBits() in ImageSharp

[kikootwo]

I am working on fully replacing System.Drawing.Bitmap with ImageSharp in my solution. Is there an equivalent Bitmap.LockBits() in ImageSharp? I see some discussion from 2018, but I assume things have changed since then.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[JimBobSquarePants]

Yeah... 2018 is a long time ago in development years 😉

The pixel buffer in ImageSharp is laid out in memory in the manner dictated by the TPixel generic parameter which allows fast lock free access to the buffer.

https://docs.sixlabors.com/articles/imagesharp/pixelbuffers.html

[kikootwo]

Thank you so much for your quick response! That looks like exactly what I'm after. I am instantiating an 'Image' with Image.Load(path) but my image doesn't have that 'TryGetPixelSpan' Is there a namespace/other package I'm missing?

[kikootwo]

Nevermind, please ignore me!

For aynone else reading this, your image must have a pixel format for example Image<Rbga>

Thank you again!

[JimBobSquarePants]

Yep, that’s right. If you use the generic version you get more options