<Window x:Class="Bitmap_Effects.Window1"

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">

    <Grid>

        <Grid.RowDefinitions>

            <RowDefinition></RowDefinition>

            <RowDefinition></RowDefinition>

            <RowDefinition></RowDefinition>

        </Grid.RowDefinitions>       

        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

            <ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition>

        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

        <!--this is button1 -->       

        <Button Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Height="30" Width="200" FontWeight="Bold" FontFamily="Verdana">

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            <Button.BitmapEffect>

                <BevelBitmapEffect></BevelBitmapEffect>               

            </Button.BitmapEffect>

        </Button>

        <!--this is button2 -->

        <Button Height="30" Width="200" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" FontWeight="Bold" FontFamily="Verdana">

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            <Button.BitmapEffect>   

                <BitmapEffectGroup>

                <OuterGlowBitmapEffect></OuterGlowBitmapEffect>

                <OuterGlowBitmapEffect></OuterGlowBitmapEffect>

                <OuterGlowBitmapEffect></OuterGlowBitmapEffect>

                <DropShadowBitmapEffect></DropShadowBitmapEffect>               

                <BevelBitmapEffect></BevelBitmapEffect>

                </BitmapEffectGroup>

            </Button.BitmapEffect>

        </Button>

        <!--this is button3 -->

        <Button Height="30" Width="200" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" FontWeight="Bold" FontFamily="Verdana">

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            <Button.BitmapEffect>

                <BitmapEffectGroup>

                    <DropShadowBitmapEffect></DropShadowBitmapEffect>

                    <DropShadowBitmapEffect></DropShadowBitmapEffect>

                    <DropShadowBitmapEffect></DropShadowBitmapEffect>

                    <DropShadowBitmapEffect></DropShadowBitmapEffect>                   

                </BitmapEffectGroup>

            </Button.BitmapEffect>

        </Button>

    </Grid>

</Window>

The output of all three buttons looks like below. As you can see from the below image, all three buttons have three different bitmat effects.

Figure 1.

Bitmap Effects on Images

Not only the controls available in XAML and WPF, we can also apply these bitmap effects on images. The following code snippet applies bitmap effect on an Image control using Image.BitmapEffect.

</Window> 

The image with drop shadow effect looks like Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Similar to the above samples, you can pretty much apply these bitmat effects on any WPF control as long as it supports it.