How do I resize the UIImage to reduce upload image

Question

I've been searching google, and have only come across libraries that either reduce the height/width or some how edit the UIImage appearance via CoreImage. But I have not seen or found one library, post that explains how to reduce image size so when it uploads, it's not the full image size.

so far I have this:

        if image != nil {
        //let data = NSData(data: UIImagePNGRepresentation(image))
        let data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)
        body.appendString("--\(boundary)\r\n")
        body.appendString("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"image\"; filename=\"randomName\"\r\n")
        body.appendString("Content-Type: image/png\r\n\r\n")
        body.appendData(data)
        body.appendString("\r\n")
    }

and it's sending 12MB photos. How can I reduce this to 1mb? thanks!

Answer 1

This is what I done in swift 3 for resizing an UIImage. It reduces the image size to less than 100kb. It works proportionally!

extension UIImage {
    class func scaleImageWithDivisor(img: UIImage, divisor: CGFloat) -> UIImage {
        let size = CGSize(width: img.size.width/divisor, height: img.size.height/divisor)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(size)
        img.draw(in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: size.width, height: size.height))
        let scaledImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
        return scaledImage!
    }
}

Usage:

let scaledImage = UIImage.scaleImageWithDivisor(img: capturedImage!, divisor: 3)

Answer 2

If you are uploading image in NSData format, use this :

NSData *imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(yourImage, floatValue);

yourImage is your UIImage. floatvalue is compression value(0.0 to 1.0)

The above is to convert image to JPEG.

For PNGuse : UIImagePNGRepresentation

Note : Above code is in Objective-C. Please check how to define NSData in Swift.

Answer 3

This is the way which i followed to resize image.

 -(UIImage *)resizeImage:(UIImage *)image
{
   float actualHeight = image.size.height;
   float actualWidth = image.size.width;
   float maxHeight = 300.0;
   float maxWidth = 400.0;
   float imgRatio = actualWidth/actualHeight;
   float maxRatio = maxWidth/maxHeight;
   float compressionQuality = 0.5;//50 percent compression

   if (actualHeight > maxHeight || actualWidth > maxWidth)
   {
    if(imgRatio < maxRatio)
    {
        //adjust width according to maxHeight
        imgRatio = maxHeight / actualHeight;
        actualWidth = imgRatio * actualWidth;
        actualHeight = maxHeight;
    }
    else if(imgRatio > maxRatio)
    {
        //adjust height according to maxWidth
        imgRatio = maxWidth / actualWidth;
        actualHeight = imgRatio * actualHeight;
        actualWidth = maxWidth;
    }
    else
    {
        actualHeight = maxHeight;
        actualWidth = maxWidth;
    }
   }

   CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, actualWidth, actualHeight);
   UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
   [image drawInRect:rect];
   UIImage *img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
   NSData *imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(img, compressionQuality);
   UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

   return [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];

}

Using this method my image having 6.5 MB reduced to 104 KB.

Swift 4 code:

func resize(_ image: UIImage) -> UIImage {
    var actualHeight = Float(image.size.height)
    var actualWidth = Float(image.size.width)
    let maxHeight: Float = 300.0
    let maxWidth: Float = 400.0
    var imgRatio: Float = actualWidth / actualHeight
    let maxRatio: Float = maxWidth / maxHeight
    let compressionQuality: Float = 0.5
    //50 percent compression
    if actualHeight > maxHeight || actualWidth > maxWidth {
        if imgRatio < maxRatio {
            //adjust width according to maxHeight
            imgRatio = maxHeight / actualHeight
            actualWidth = imgRatio * actualWidth
            actualHeight = maxHeight
        }
        else if imgRatio > maxRatio {
            //adjust height according to maxWidth
            imgRatio = maxWidth / actualWidth
            actualHeight = imgRatio * actualHeight
            actualWidth = maxWidth
        }
        else {
            actualHeight = maxHeight
            actualWidth = maxWidth
        }
    }
    let rect = CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: CGFloat(actualWidth), height: CGFloat(actualHeight))
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
    image.draw(in: rect)
    let img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    let imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(img!, CGFloat(compressionQuality))
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
    return UIImage(data: imageData!) ?? UIImage()
}

Answer 4

Based on the answer of Tung Fam. To resize to a specific file size. Like 0.7 MB you can use this code.

extension UIImage {

func resize(withPercentage percentage: CGFloat) -> UIImage? {
    var newRect = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: CGSize(width: size.width*percentage, height: size.height*percentage))
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newRect.size, true, 1)
    self.draw(in: newRect)
    defer {UIGraphicsEndImageContext()}
    return UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
}

func resizeTo(MB: Double) -> UIImage? {
    guard let fileSize = self.pngData()?.count else {return nil}
    let fileSizeInMB = CGFloat(fileSize)/(1024.0*1024.0)//form bytes to MB
    let percentage = 1/fileSizeInMB
    return resize(withPercentage: percentage)
}
}

Answer 5

Here is user4261201's answer but in swift, that I am currently using:

func compressImage (_ image: UIImage) -> UIImage {

    let actualHeight:CGFloat = image.size.height
    let actualWidth:CGFloat = image.size.width
    let imgRatio:CGFloat = actualWidth/actualHeight
    let maxWidth:CGFloat = 1024.0
    let resizedHeight:CGFloat = maxWidth/imgRatio
    let compressionQuality:CGFloat = 0.5

    let rect:CGRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: maxWidth, height: resizedHeight)
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
    image.draw(in: rect)
    let img: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()!
    let imageData:Data = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(img, compressionQuality)!
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

    return UIImage(data: imageData)!

}

Answer 6

Resize the UIImage using .resizeToMaximumBytes