UIImage: Resize, then Crop

Question

I've been bashing my face into this one for literally days now and even though I feel constantly that I am right on the edge of revelation, I simply cannot achieve my goal.

I thought, ahead of time in the conceptual phases of my design, that it would be a trivial matter to grab a image from the iPhone's camera or library, scale it down to a specified height, using a function equivalent to the Aspect Fill option of UIImageView (entirely in code), and then crop off anything that did not fit within a passed CGRect.

Getting the original image from camera or library, was trivial. I am shocked at how difficult the other two steps have proved to be.

The attached image shows what I am trying to achieve. Would someone please be kind enough to hold my hand? Every code example I have found so far seems to smash the image, be upside down, look like crap, draw out of bounds, or otherwise just not work correctly.

Answer 1

+ (UIImage *)scaleImage:(UIImage *)image toSize:(CGSize)targetSize {
    //If scaleFactor is not touched, no scaling will occur      
    CGFloat scaleFactor = 1.0;

    //Deciding which factor to use to scale the image (factor = targetSize / imageSize)
    if (image.size.width > targetSize.width || image.size.height > targetSize.height)
        if (!((scaleFactor = (targetSize.width / image.size.width)) > (targetSize.height / image.size.height))) //scale to fit width, or
            scaleFactor = targetSize.height / image.size.height; // scale to fit heigth.

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(targetSize); 

    //Creating the rect where the scaled image is drawn in
    CGRect rect = CGRectMake((targetSize.width - image.size.width * scaleFactor) / 2,
                             (targetSize.height -  image.size.height * scaleFactor) / 2,
                             image.size.width * scaleFactor, image.size.height * scaleFactor);

    //Draw the image into the rect
    [image drawInRect:rect];

    //Saving the image, ending image context
    UIImage *scaledImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return scaledImage;
}

I propose this one. Isn't she a beauty? ;)

Answer 2

scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0,0.0,ScreenWidth,ScreenHeigth)];
    [scrollView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
    [scrollView setDelegate:self];
    [scrollView setShowsHorizontalScrollIndicator:NO];
    [scrollView setShowsVerticalScrollIndicator:NO];
    [scrollView setMaximumZoomScale:2.0];
    image=[image scaleToSize:CGSizeMake(ScreenWidth, ScreenHeigth)];
    imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
    UIImageView* imageViewBk = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"background.png"]];
    [self.view addSubview:imageViewBk];
    CGRect rect;
    rect.origin.x=0;
    rect.origin.y=0;
    rect.size.width = image.size.width;
    rect.size.height = image.size.height;

    [imageView setFrame:rect];

    [scrollView setContentSize:[imageView frame].size];
    [scrollView setMinimumZoomScale:[scrollView frame].size.width / [imageView frame].size.width];
    [scrollView setZoomScale:[scrollView minimumZoomScale]];
    [scrollView addSubview:imageView];

    [[self view] addSubview:scrollView];

then you can take screen shots to your image by this

float zoomScale = 1.0 / [scrollView zoomScale];
CGRect rect;
rect.origin.x = [scrollView contentOffset].x * zoomScale;
rect.origin.y = [scrollView contentOffset].y * zoomScale;
rect.size.width = [scrollView bounds].size.width * zoomScale;
rect.size.height = [scrollView bounds].size.height * zoomScale;

CGImageRef cr = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([[imageView image] CGImage], rect);

UIImage *cropped = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:cr];

CGImageRelease(cr);

Answer 3

I modified Brad Larson's Code. It will aspect fill the image in given rect.

-(UIImage*) scaleAndCropToSize:(CGSize)newSize;
{
    float ratio = self.size.width / self.size.height;

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(newSize);

    if (ratio > 1) {
        CGFloat newWidth = ratio * newSize.width;
        CGFloat newHeight = newSize.height;
        CGFloat leftMargin = (newWidth - newHeight) / 2;
        [self drawInRect:CGRectMake(-leftMargin, 0, newWidth, newHeight)];
    }
    else {
        CGFloat newWidth = newSize.width;
        CGFloat newHeight = newSize.height / ratio;
        CGFloat topMargin = (newHeight - newWidth) / 2;
        [self drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, -topMargin, newSize.width, newSize.height/ratio)];
    }

    UIImage* newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return newImage;
}

Answer 4

Here is a Swift 3 version of Sam Wirch's guide to swift posted by William T.

extension UIImage {

    static func resizedCroppedImage(image: UIImage, newSize:CGSize) -> UIImage? {
        var ratio: CGFloat = 0
        var delta: CGFloat = 0
        var offset = CGPoint.zero

        if image.size.width > image.size.height {
            ratio = newSize.width / image.size.width
            delta = (ratio * image.size.width) - (ratio * image.size.height)
            offset = CGPoint(x: delta / 2, y: 0)
        } else {
            ratio = newSize.width / image.size.height
            delta = (ratio * image.size.height) - (ratio * image.size.width)
            offset = CGPoint(x: 0, y: delta / 2)
        }

        let clipRect = CGRect(x: -offset.x, y: -offset.y, width: (ratio * image.size.width) + delta, height: (ratio * image.size.height) + delta)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, true, 0.0)
        UIRectClip(clipRect)
        image.draw(in: clipRect)
        let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        return newImage
    }

}

Answer 5

Here you go. This one is perfect ;-)

EDIT: see below comment - "Does not work with certain images, fails with: CGContextSetInterpolationQuality: invalid context 0x0 error"

// Resizes the image according to the given content mode, taking into account the image's orientation
- (UIImage *)resizedImageWithContentMode:(UIViewContentMode)contentMode imageToScale:(UIImage*)imageToScale bounds:(CGSize)bounds interpolationQuality:(CGInterpolationQuality)quality {
    //Get the size we want to scale it to
    CGFloat horizontalRatio = bounds.width / imageToScale.size.width;
    CGFloat verticalRatio = bounds.height / imageToScale.size.height;
    CGFloat ratio;

    switch (contentMode) {
        case UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill:
            ratio = MAX(horizontalRatio, verticalRatio);
            break;

        case UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit:
            ratio = MIN(horizontalRatio, verticalRatio);
            break;

        default:
            [NSException raise:NSInvalidArgumentException format:@"Unsupported content mode: %d", contentMode];
    }

    //...and here it is
    CGSize newSize = CGSizeMake(imageToScale.size.width * ratio, imageToScale.size.height * ratio);


    //start scaling it
    CGRect newRect = CGRectIntegral(CGRectMake(0, 0, newSize.width, newSize.height));
    CGImageRef imageRef = imageToScale.CGImage;
    CGContextRef bitmap = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL,
                                                newRect.size.width,
                                                newRect.size.height,
                                                CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(imageRef),
                                                0,
                                                CGImageGetColorSpace(imageRef),
                                                CGImageGetBitmapInfo(imageRef));

    CGContextSetInterpolationQuality(bitmap, quality);

    // Draw into the context; this scales the image
    CGContextDrawImage(bitmap, newRect, imageRef);

    // Get the resized image from the context and a UIImage
    CGImageRef newImageRef = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(bitmap);
    UIImage *newImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:newImageRef];

    // Clean up
    CGContextRelease(bitmap);
    CGImageRelease(newImageRef);

    return newImage;
}

Answer 6

An older post contains code for a method to resize your UIImage. The relevant portion is as follows:

+ (UIImage*)imageWithImage:(UIImage*)image 
               scaledToSize:(CGSize)newSize;
{
   UIGraphicsBeginImageContext( newSize );
   [image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0,0,newSize.width,newSize.height)];
   UIImage* newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
   UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

   return newImage;
}

As far as cropping goes, I believe that if you alter the method to use a different size for the scaling than for the context, your resulting image should be clipped to the bounds of the context.