private static byte[] GetImageFromUrl(string url)
{
    byte[] data;
    var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    request.Timeout = 10000;
    request.ReadWriteTimeout = 10000;

    using (var response = request.GetResponse())
    using (var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
    using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
    {
        int count;
        do
        {
            var buf = new byte[1024];
            count = responseStream.Read(buf, 0, 1024);
            memoryStream.Write(buf, 0, count);
        } while (responseStream.CanRead && count > 0);

        data = memoryStream.ToArray();
    }

    return data;
}

public virtual byte[] ToArray()
{
    BCLDebug.Perf(_exposable, "MemoryStream::GetBuffer will let you avoid a copy.");
    byte[] copy = new byte[_length - _origin];
    Buffer.InternalBlockCopy(_buffer, _origin, copy, 0, _length - _origin);
    return copy;
}

Total Images: 14,630
Images Above LOH Threshold: 14,276
Average Image Size: 253,818 bytes
Largest Image Size: 693,842 bytes
Smallest Image Size: 10,370 bytes
Standard Deviation of Sizes: 101,184

public void Transform(string url)
{
    var bytes = GetImageFromUrl(url);

    if (CanCreateImageFrom(bytes))
    {
        using (var stream = new MemoryStream(bytes))
        using (var originalImage = Image.FromStream(stream))
        using (var scaledImage = ImageHelper.Scale(originalImage, 320, 240))
        using (var graphics = Graphics.FromImage(scaledImage))
        {
            ImageHelper.TransformImage(graphics, scaledImage, originalImage);

            // upload scaledImage to AWS S3 in production, in the test harness write to disk
            using (var fileStream = File.Create(@"..\..\v1.jpg"))
            {
                scaledImage.Save(fileStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
            }
        }
    }
}

private static bool CanCreateImageFrom(byte[] bytes)
{
    try
    {
        using (var stream = new MemoryStream(bytes))
        {
            Image.FromStream(stream);
        }
    }
    catch (ArgumentException)
    {
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

public class ImageTransformerV2 : IImageTransformer
{
    public void Transform(string url)
    {
        var request = WebRequest.CreateHttp(url);
        request.Timeout = 10000;
        request.ReadWriteTimeout = 10000;

        using (var response = request.GetResponse())
        using (var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
        using (var originalImage = Image.FromStream(responseStream))
        using (var scaledImage = ImageHelper.Scale(originalImage, 320, 240))
        using (var graphics = Graphics.FromImage(scaledImage))
        {
            ImageHelper.TransformImage(graphics, scaledImage, originalImage);

            // upload scaledImage to AWS S3 in production, in the test harness write to disk
            using (var fileStream = File.Create(@"..\..\v2.jpg"))
            {
                scaledImage.Save(fileStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
            }
        }
    }
}

internal GPStream(Stream stream)
{
    if (!stream.CanSeek)
    {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[256];
        int offset = 0;
        int num;

        do
        {
            if (buffer.Length < offset + 256)
            {
                byte[] numArray = new byte[buffer.Length * 2];
                Array.Copy((Array) buffer, (Array) numArray, buffer.Length);
                buffer = numArray;
            }
            num = stream.Read(buffer, offset, 256);
            offset += num;
        } while (num != 0);

        this.dataStream = (Stream) new MemoryStream(buffer);
    }
    else
        this.dataStream = stream;
}

public void Transform(string url)
{
    var request = WebRequest.CreateHttp(url);
    request.Timeout = 10000;
    request.ReadWriteTimeout = 10000;

    var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();

    using (var response = request.GetResponse())
    using (var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
    {
        responseStream.CopyTo(memoryStream);
    }

    using (var originalImage = Image.FromStream(memoryStream))
    using (var scaledImage = ImageHelper.Scale(originalImage, 320, 240))
    using (var graphics = Graphics.FromImage(scaledImage))
    {
        ImageHelper.TransformImage(graphics, scaledImage, originalImage);

        // upload scaledImage to AWS S3 in production, in the test harness write to disk

        using (var fileStream = File.Create(@"..\..\v2.jpg"))
        {
            scaledImage.Save(fileStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
        }
    }
}

public class ImageTransformerV3 : IImageTransformer
{
    private readonly RecyclableMemoryStreamManager _streamManager;

    public ImageTransformerV3()
    {
        _streamManager = new RecyclableMemoryStreamManager();
    }

    public void Transform(string url)
    {
        var request = WebRequest.CreateHttp(url);
        request.Timeout = 10000;
        request.ReadWriteTimeout = 10000;
        request.AllowReadStreamBuffering = false;
        request.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = false;

        MemoryStream borrowedStream;

        using (var response = request.GetResponse())
        {
            if (response.ContentLength == -1) // Means that content length is NOT sent back by the third party server
            {
                borrowedStream = _streamManager.GetStream(url); // then we let the stream manager had this 
            }
            else
            {
                borrowedStream = _streamManager.GetStream(url, (int)response.ContentLength); // otherwise we borrow a stream with the exact size
            }

            int bufferSize;

            if (response.ContentLength == -1 || response.ContentLength > 81920)
            {
                bufferSize = 81920;
            }
            else
            {
                bufferSize = (int) response.ContentLength;
            }

            // close the http response stream asap, we only need the contents, we don't need to keep it open
            using (var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
            {
                responseStream.CopyTo(borrowedStream, bufferSize);
            }
        }

        using (borrowedStream)
        using (var originalImage = Image.FromStream(borrowedStream))
        using (var scaledImage = ImageHelper.Scale(originalImage, 320, 240))
        using (var graphics = Graphics.FromImage(scaledImage))
        {
            ImageHelper.TransformImage(graphics, scaledImage, originalImage);
            // upload scaledImage to AWS S3 in production, in the test harness write to disk

            using (var fileStream = File.Create(@"..\..\v3.jpg"))
            {
                scaledImage.Save(fileStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
            }
        }
    }
}

public class ImageTransformerV4 : IImageTransformer
{
    public void Transform(string url)
    {
        // truncated for brevity 

        MagicImageProcessor.EnableSimd = false;
        MagicImageProcessor.EnablePlanarPipeline = true;

        using (borrowedStream)
        {
            // upload scaledImage to AWS S3 in production, in the test harness write to disk

            using (var fileStream = File.Create(@"..\..\v4.jpg"))
            {
                MagicImageProcessor.ProcessImage(borrowedStream, fileStream, new ProcessImageSettings()
                {
                    Width = 320,
                    Height = 240,
                    ResizeMode = CropScaleMode.Max,
                    SaveFormat = FileFormat.Jpeg,
                    JpegQuality = 70,
                    HybridMode = HybridScaleMode.Turbo
                });
            }
        }
    }
}