Six Labors Documentation

We aim to provide modern, cross-platform, incredibly powerful yet beautifully simple graphics libraries. Built against .NET Standard, our libraries can be used in device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios.

You can find tutorials, examples and API details covering all Six Labors projects.

Note

Documentation for previous releases can be found at https://docs-v1.sixlabors.com/.

API documentation

Detailed documentation for the entire API available across our projects.

Conceptual Documentation

Our graphics libraries are split into different projects. They cover different concerns separately, but there is strong cohesion in order to provide the best developer experience.

You can find documentation for each project in the links below.

ImageSharp

Fully featured 2D graphics library.

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ImageSharp.Drawing

2D polygon Manipulation and Drawing.

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ImageSharp.Web

ASP.NET Core Image Manipulation Middleware.

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Fonts

Font Loading and Drawing API.

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Examples Repository

We have implemented short self-contained sample projects for a few specific use cases, including:

1. Avatar with rounded corners
   Crops rounded corners of a source image leaving a nice rounded avatar.
2. Draw watermark on image
   Draw water mark over an image automatically scaling the font size to fill the available space.
3. Change default encoder options
   Provides an example on how you go about switching out the registered encoder for a file format and changing its default options in the process.
4. Draw text along a path
   Draw some text following the contours of a path.