After capturing or importing an image, the next logic step is to allow the user to edit the image.  The bitmap class in .Net is not adequate enough to resize a large image I’m not sure but it looks like Bitmap is using bit blipping and not interpolation and anti-aliasing.  In looking for an image library that both supported .Net and had no runtime license I can across PhotoStudio.Net ($200).  I liked the simplistic API and the willingness of NCT to make the source purchasable.  PhotoStudio.Net is written entirely in managed code and that also was a big plus.  Most vendors out there just put a .Net wrapper around their existing implementation.  Luckily the price was right, I could not create an implementation that would cost less than $200.  However, just before I found PhotoStudio.Net, I was searching for freely available code that I could use.  I ran across several GNU implementations, but the library I had determined to use was Image Magic. I do not think it would be very difficult to create a .Net binding to Image Magic.  This could be incredibly useful for the Open Source .Net Community and would present a consistent cross platform interface for image editing.