The Black Ice Imaging Toolkits provide a convenient way to load images from image files. The image files can be loaded from a storage device (hard drive, CD, etc.), or they can be stored in memory.
When you load an image, the Black Ice Imaging toolkits provides you with a handle to a DIB created from information extracted from the Image file. Having a DIB handle for your images, your application has access to all of the Black Ice Imaging Toolkit’s functionality, and can perform a wide range of imaging operations.
The loading functions/methods are only method of obtaining images. You can import images that already exist as plain bitmaps or DIBs into your application. Additionally, you can scan images from a TWAIN data source directly into your application.
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