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Merge two pictures in VB.NET

I have three pictureboxes. How to combine two pictures from two pictureboxes to third one...so that first picture is behind the second?
I need to save the third (combined) picture in database... (i know how to do this)

Thank you in advance.
Matej

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djcybex

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Thank you!

can you please suggest how to center the front picture to the one in the back?

i know you can set cordinates in
g.DrawImage(MergedBMP,x,y);

but pictures are diferent sizes...
and also DrawImage makes picture smaller than original..why is that?

iboutchkine

Try either to resize image

Private Sub ResizeImage()
Dim filename As String = "C:\windows\web\wallpaper\wind.jpg"
Dim photo As System.Drawing.Bitmap = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(filename)

'Resize to medium
Dim w As Integer = 200
Dim h As Integer = 200

Dim medium As New System.Drawing.Bitmap(w, h)
Dim mG As System.Drawing.Graphics = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(medium)

mG.CompositingQuality = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.CompositingQuality.HighSpeed
mG.InterpolationMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.Bicubic
mG.DrawImage(photo, 0, 0, w, h)

'Save
medium.Save(filename, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)
medium.Dispose()
photo.Dispose()

End Sub

or stretch it to the picbox size
picImage.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.StretchImage