Cropping an UIImage

Question

I\'ve got some code that resizes an image so I can get a scaled chunk of the center of the image - I use this to take a UIImage and return a small, square repre

Answer 1

Here's an updated Swift 3 version based on Noodles answer

func cropping(to rect: CGRect) -> UIImage? {

    if let cgCrop = cgImage?.cropping(to: rect) {
        return UIImage(cgImage: cgCrop)
    }
    else if let ciCrop = ciImage?.cropping(to: rect) {
        return UIImage(ciImage: ciCrop)
    }

    return nil
}

Answer 2

Swift 3 version

func cropImage(imageToCrop:UIImage, toRect rect:CGRect) -> UIImage{
    
    let imageRef:CGImage = imageToCrop.cgImage!.cropping(to: rect)!
    let cropped:UIImage = UIImage(cgImage:imageRef)
    return cropped
}


let imageTop:UIImage  = UIImage(named:"one.jpg")! // add validation

with help of this bridge function CGRectMake -> CGRect (credits to this answer answered by @rob mayoff):

 func CGRectMake(_ x: CGFloat, _ y: CGFloat, _ width: CGFloat, _ height: CGFloat) -> CGRect {
    return CGRect(x: x, y: y, width: width, height: height)
}

The usage is:

if var image:UIImage  = UIImage(named:"one.jpg"){
   let  croppedImage = cropImage(imageToCrop: image, toRect: CGRectMake(
        image.size.width/4,
        0,
        image.size.width/2,
        image.size.height)
    )
}

Output:

Answer 3

Look at https://github.com/vvbogdan/BVCropPhoto

- (UIImage *)croppedImage {
    CGFloat scale = self.sourceImage.size.width / self.scrollView.contentSize.width;

    UIImage *finalImage = nil;
    CGRect targetFrame = CGRectMake((self.scrollView.contentInset.left + self.scrollView.contentOffset.x) * scale,
            (self.scrollView.contentInset.top + self.scrollView.contentOffset.y) * scale,
            self.cropSize.width * scale,
            self.cropSize.height * scale);

    CGImageRef contextImage = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([[self imageWithRotation:self.sourceImage] CGImage], targetFrame);

    if (contextImage != NULL) {
        finalImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:contextImage
                                         scale:self.sourceImage.scale
                                   orientation:UIImageOrientationUp];

        CGImageRelease(contextImage);
    }

    return finalImage;
}


- (UIImage *)imageWithRotation:(UIImage *)image {


    if (image.imageOrientation == UIImageOrientationUp) return image;
    CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;

    switch (image.imageOrientation) {
        case UIImageOrientationDown:
        case UIImageOrientationDownMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, image.size.width, image.size.height);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationLeft:
        case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, image.size.width, 0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI_2);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationRight:
        case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, 0, image.size.height);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, -M_PI_2);
            break;
        case UIImageOrientationUp:
        case UIImageOrientationUpMirrored:
            break;
    }

    switch (image.imageOrientation) {
        case UIImageOrientationUpMirrored:
        case UIImageOrientationDownMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, image.size.width, 0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1, 1);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored:
        case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, image.size.height, 0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1, 1);
            break;
        case UIImageOrientationUp:
        case UIImageOrientationDown:
        case UIImageOrientationLeft:
        case UIImageOrientationRight:
            break;
    }

    // Now we draw the underlying CGImage into a new context, applying the transform
    // calculated above.
    CGContextRef ctx = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, image.size.width, image.size.height,
            CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(image.CGImage), 0,
            CGImageGetColorSpace(image.CGImage),
            CGImageGetBitmapInfo(image.CGImage));
    CGContextConcatCTM(ctx, transform);
    switch (image.imageOrientation) {
        case UIImageOrientationLeft:
        case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored:
        case UIImageOrientationRight:
        case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored:
            // Grr...
            CGContextDrawImage(ctx, CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.height, image.size.width), image.CGImage);
            break;

        default:
            CGContextDrawImage(ctx, CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width, image.size.height), image.CGImage);
            break;
    }

    // And now we just create a new UIImage from the drawing context
    CGImageRef cgimg = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(ctx);
    UIImage *img = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:cgimg];
    CGContextRelease(ctx);
    CGImageRelease(cgimg);
    return img;

}

Answer 4

swift3

extension UIImage {
    func crop(rect: CGRect) -> UIImage? {
        var scaledRect = rect
        scaledRect.origin.x *= scale
        scaledRect.origin.y *= scale
        scaledRect.size.width *= scale
        scaledRect.size.height *= scale
        guard let imageRef: CGImage = cgImage?.cropping(to: scaledRect) else {
            return nil
        }
        return UIImage(cgImage: imageRef, scale: scale, orientation: imageOrientation)
    }
}

Answer 5

On iOS9.2SDK ,I use below method to convert frame from UIView to UIImage

-(UIImage *)getNeedImageFrom:(UIImage*)image cropRect:(CGRect)rect
{
  CGSize cropSize = rect.size;
  CGFloat widthScale = image.size.width/self.imageViewOriginal.bounds.size.width;
  CGFloat heightScale = image.size.height/self.imageViewOriginal.bounds.size.height;
  cropSize = CGSizeMake(rect.size.width*widthScale, 
              rect.size.height*heightScale);
  CGPoint pointCrop = CGPointMake(rect.origin.x*widthScale,
             rect.origin.y*heightScale);
  rect = CGRectMake(pointCrop.x, pointCrop.y, cropSize.width, cropSize.height);
  CGImageRef subImage = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect(image.CGImage, rect);
  UIImage *croppedImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:subImage];
  CGImageRelease(subImage);

  return croppedImage;
}

Answer 6

Heads up: all these answers assume a CGImage-backed image object.

image.CGImage can return nil, if the UIImage is backed by a CIImage, which would be the case if you created this image using a CIFilter.

In that case, you might have to draw the image in a new context, and return that image (slow).

UIImage* crop(UIImage *image, rect) {
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(rect.size, false, [image scale]);
    [image drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(-rect.origin.x, -rect.origin.y)];
    cropped_image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    return cropped_image;
}