I'm looking for a Java library to do image cropping / resizing. I had planned to use jmagick, but it doesn't seem to have been maintained since 2009.
Is this the best library to use? Any recommendations?!
Edit
One thing I want to do is to be able to pad an image to resize as well as crop it. i.e. if I have a 4x2 image, and I want to make it a square, I want to make it 4x4, with black or white padding at each side.
Does this have a name in image manipulation? Is it a function that comes with any libraries?
I maintain Thumbnailator, a thumbnail generating library for Java, which provides means to resize images and do some simple image manipulations via a easy-to-use fluent API.
One of the features that Thumbnailator provides is the Canvas
filter which can perform cropping and padding (or letterboxing) of resulting thumbnails.
Padding an image
For example, using the Canvas
filter to pad an image can be achieved by the following:
Thumbnails.of("path/to/image.jpg")
.size(150, 150)
.addFilter(new Canvas(150, 150, Positions.CENTER, Color.blue))
.toFile("path/to/padded-image.jpg");
The above will:
- Take an original image and shrink it to fit within 150 x 150 via the
size
method.
- Then, an additional filtering step specified by the
addFilter
method will add a blue padding (using Color.blue
) to result in an final image with the dimensions 150 x 150.
- Save the resulting thumbnail to
path/to/padded-image.jpg
.
Using the above code on a portrait picture results in the following:
padded image http://coobird.net/img/so-8150276-padding.jpg
Cropping an image
Cropping an image with the Canvas
filter can be achieved by the following:
Thumbnails.of("path/to/image.jpg")
.size(150, 150)
.addFilter(new Canvas(100, 100, Positions.TOP_RIGHT, true))
.toFile("path/to/cropped-image.jpg");
The above code will:
- Take an original image and shrink it to fit within 150 x 150 via the
size
method.
- Then, an additional filtering step will crop out a 100 x 100 region from the top-right hand corner of the resized image. (The
true
argument that is present in the Canvas
constructor call indicates that an image should be cropped if larger than the specified dimensions.)
- Save the resulting thumbnail to
path/to/cropped-image.jpg
.
An example of running the above code will be the following:
cropped image http://coobird.net/img/so-8150276-cropping.jpg
There are currently feature requests to make cropping a more integral part of the Thumbnailator API, so in the future I am planning to add a crop
method which should reduce the need for calling the addFilter
method under most circumstances.
You can try this:
BufferedImage image=ImageIO.read(new FileInputStream("<youFile.jpg>"));
int min=0;
if(image.getWidth()>image.getHeight())
min=image.getHeight();
else
min=image.getWidth();
Thumbnails.of(image)
.sourceRegion(Positions.CENTER, min, min)
.size(250, 250)
.toFile("<outputFile.jpg>");