// Create dirty text effect
private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
e.Graphics.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
e.Graphics.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
Bitmap canvas = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
// Load the dirty image from file
Bitmap canvasDirty = new Bitmap("..\\..\\..\\CommonImages\\dirty-texture.png");
// Text context to store string and font info to be sent as parameter to Canvas methods
TextContext context = new TextContext();
FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily("Arial Black");
context.fontFamily = fontFamily;
context.fontStyle = FontStyle.Regular;
context.nfontSize = 48;
context.pszText = "DIRTY";
context.ptDraw = new Point(5, 70);
// Load the texture image from file
Bitmap texture = new Bitmap("..\\..\\..\\CommonImages\\texture_blue.jpg");
Bitmap texture2 = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
// Draw the texture against the red dirty mask onto the 2nd texture
CanvasHelper.ApplyImageToMask(texture, canvasDirty, texture2, MaskColor.Red, false);
TextureBrush textureBrush = new TextureBrush(texture2);
Bitmap textureShadow = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
// Draw the gray color against the red dirty mask onto the shadow texture
CanvasHelper.ApplyColorToMask(Color.FromArgb(0xaa, 0xcc, 0xcc, 0xcc), canvasDirty, textureShadow, MaskColor.Red);
// Create texture brush for the shadow
TextureBrush shadowBrush = new TextureBrush(textureShadow);
// Create strategy for the shadow with the shadow brush
var strategyShadow = CanvasHelper.TextNoOutline(shadowBrush);
Bitmap canvasTemp = CanvasHelper.GenImage(ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
// Draw the shadow image first onto the temp canvas
CanvasHelper.DrawTextImage(strategyShadow, canvasTemp, new Point(0, 0), context);
// Create strategy for the text body
var strategy = CanvasHelper.TextNoOutline(textureBrush);
// Draw text body
CanvasHelper.DrawTextImage(strategy, canvas, new Point(0, 0), context);
// Draw the shadow image (canvasTemp) shifted -3, -3
e.Graphics.DrawImage(canvasTemp, 3, 3, ClientSize.Width - 3, ClientSize.Height - 3);
// Then draw the rendered image onto window
e.Graphics.DrawImage(canvas, 0, 0, ClientSize.Width, ClientSize.Height);
e.Graphics.Dispose();
texture.Dispose();
texture2.Dispose();
textureShadow.Dispose();
canvasDirty.Dispose();
canvas.Dispose();
canvasTemp.Dispose();
strategyShadow.Dispose();
strategy.Dispose();
textureBrush.Dispose();
shadowBrush.Dispose();
}