Reduce UIImage size to a manageable size (reduce bytes)

Question

I want to reduce the number of bytes of an image captured by the device, since i believe the _imageScaledToSize does not reduce the number of bytes of the pictu

Answer 1

I ran into this problem the other day and did quite a bit of research. I found an awesome solution complete with code here:

http://vocaro.com/trevor/blog/2009/10/12/resize-a-uiimage-the-right-way/