Suggestion for Better Picture Manager

This is actually not my fix, but another member gave it to me.  I think it would be a great thing for future versions of nop.

Basically, it uses the PNG Codec to make the thumbnail images.  It appears to give better picture quality and allows for transparent images.

Can you share the code?

This is the same workaround for transparent images for version 1.5
Its just this one additional line of code in PictureManager.cs:

       private static ImageCodecInfo getImageCodeInfo(string mimeType)
       {
           mimeType = "image/png"; // ******* Override to force PNG Codec

           var info = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders();
           foreach (var ici in info)
               if (ici.MimeType.Equals(mimeType, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                   return ici;
           return null;
       }