Create a bitmap in c# with specific pixelformat from an image without loading the image

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Answer 1

If FileStream works to open the file, you might want to give some of the other constructors of Bitmap a try, in particular Bitmap(Stream).

If that doesn't help, you might try loading the raw bmp data, creating a Bitmap with the format you want and copying the data into the Bitmap manually (I'm not familiar with C# Bitmaps, but there should be some way of accessing the data).

Hope this helps.