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Creating customizable products in your Shopify store not only increase your customer satisfaction, it also increases your conversion rate.  Here is a method to add custom options for your Shopify product and convert it into personalized product - Go to Shopify store page and search for "Advanced Product Customizer" app or you can directly the the Shopify app page by clicking on this link Advanced Product Customizer . Install  Advanced Product Customizer  app for free in your Shopify store  From the application dashboard, enable to app embed block to complete the installation process Click "Product Custom Options"  From the Shopify products list, select the product on which you want to add custom options. Advanced Product Customizer  offers Image Swatch, Color Swatch, Text box, File Upload, Radio, Checkbox, Date Picker and more. Here is the a demo video for adding custom option for a Shopify product -
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Reading RAW Images in .NET applications using C#

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Sometimes the photos captured from cameras are saved in a raw format. The RAW files are not ready for editing with any bitmap editor. By default GDI+ in windows application do not support RAW file formats. So while reading a RAW image file in .NET we can get exceptions like "Out of memory". Here we will discuss method to read RAW image file in C# application.

Using DCRaw

dcraw is an open-source computer program which is able to read numerous raw image formats, typically produced by high-end digital cameras. dcraw converts these images into the standard PPM and TIFF image formats. Here is the sample in C# to extarct image from RAW file using DCRaw executable


string PathToDcRawExecutable = "C:\\DcRaw\\dcraw-ms.exe";
var _sourceImage = (Bitmap)Image.FromStream(GetImageFromRaw("c:\\testimage.ORF", PathToDcRawExecutable));

public Stream GetImageFromRaw(string inputFile, string dcRawExe)
{
    var startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(dcRawExe)
    {
        Arguments = "-c -e \"" + inputFile + "\"",
        RedirectStandardOutput = true,
        UseShellExecute = false
    };

    var process = Process.Start(startInfo);

    var image = Image.FromStream(process.StandardOutput.BaseStream);

    var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
    image.Save(memoryStream, ImageFormat.Png);

    return memoryStream;
}

 Here are the links for DcRaw project

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/
http://www.centrostudiprogressofotografico.it/en/dcraw/  (VS 2008 compiled code)
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  1. John A DavisMay 7, 2017 at 7:28 AM

    Oh, yes! Maybe this will work for me. I am having trouble figuring out how to use the DCRAw files.

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    1. John A DavisMay 7, 2017 at 11:45 AM

      Oh my god. It worked! Almost first time. I made a cheap ActionResult and View called Converter, downloaded the 32 bit version (VS was in (x86) folder) and used a RAW image I had taken with my Canon 40D. I just changed the extentsion to .CR2 and output to .Tiff and it worked!!
      Don't know what to do with the "var _sourceImage", but I also just saved the image to file location also and that worked. I would love to start a dialogue with you on this subject. You know, I searched and searched for days and this was first way I could get to work. So simple. You are geniuses. I do wonder what Arguments I can set. Is there a resolution or quality? Do you have any resources for these settings? Thank you very much and here is my code inside an MVC C# web application.

      public ActionResult Converter()
      {
      string PathToDcRawExecutable = "C:\\DCRaw\\dcraw-9.27-ms-32-bit.exe";

      var _sourceImage = (Bitmap)Image.FromStream(GetImageFromRaw("c:\\DCRaw\\Alf.CR2", PathToDcRawExecutable));
      return View();

      }


      public Stream GetImageFromRaw(string inputFile, string dcRawExe)
      {

      var startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(dcRawExe)
      {
      Arguments = "-c -e \"" + inputFile + "\"",
      RedirectStandardOutput = true,
      UseShellExecute = false
      };

      var process = Process.Start(startInfo);

      var image = Image.FromStream(process.StandardOutput.BaseStream);

      var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
      image.Save(memoryStream, ImageFormat.Tiff);
      image.Save("C:\\DCRaw\\Converted.tiff", ImageFormat.Tiff);
      return memoryStream;
      }

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    2. John A DavisMay 7, 2017 at 11:49 AM

      Please note that in your example you have 2 different words:
      GetImageDataFromRaw but the function is GetImageFromRaw.
      Once I figured that out and what was going on, it worked like a charm.
      So, I have that "var _sourceImage" filled up. Can I use that to make some resized .jpegs? (600x600 and thumbnail to be exact)

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    3. Vivek GoyalMay 9, 2017 at 10:27 AM

      hey! good to know that it is helpful to you. Thanks! for letting me know about 2 different words.

      About var _sourceImage this memory stream can be converted into an jpeg Image and then it can be resized. To extract thumbnail : http://newapputil.blogspot.in/2015/04/create-thumbnail-of-image-using-c.html

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