Cropped iOS Image comes back too large - ios

Question

Been trying to fix this problem all day to no avail.
Pretty much, I'm taking a screenshot of the view, then trying to crop out the first 50px and a footer. Problem is that when I do this, the result is a little blowed up, and quality is lost. Here's what I wrote, which I think conforms to retina.
-(UIImage *)takeSnapShotAndReturn{
//Take screenshot of whole view
if([[UIScreen mainScreen] respondsToSelector:#selector(scale)]){
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(self.view.bounds.size,NO,[UIScreen mainScreen].scale);
}
else{
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.window.bounds.size);
}
[self.view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
combinedImage = [self cropOutArea:image withRectangle:CGRectMake(0, 50, 320, 467)];
UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(combinedImage, nil, nil, nil);
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return image;
}
-(UIImage *)cropOutArea:(UIImage*)image withRectangle:(CGRect)rectangle{
if(image.scale > 1){
rectangle = CGRectMake(rectangle.origin.x * image.scale,
rectangle.origin.y * image.scale,
rectangle.size.width * image.scale,
rectangle.size.height * image.scale);
}
CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect(image.CGImage, rectangle);
UIImage *result = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef scale:image.scale orientation:image.imageOrientation];
CGImageRelease(imageRef);
return result;
}

Answer 1

I find cropping extremely confusing!
I'm not sure EXACTLY what you're trying to do, but this may be it .....
-(UIImage *)simplishTopCropAndTo640:(UIImage *)fromImage
// moderately optimised!
{
float shortDimension = fminf(fromImage.size.width, fromImage.size.height);
// 1.use CGImageCreateWithImageInRect to take only the top square...
// 2. use drawInRect (or CGContextDrawImage, same) to scale...
CGRect topSquareOfOriginalRect =
CGRectMake(0,0, shortDimension,shortDimension);
// NOT fromImage.size.width,fromImage.size.width);
CGImageRef topSquareIR = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect(
fromImage.CGImage, topSquareOfOriginalRect);
CGSize size = CGSizeMake( 640,640 );
CGRect sized = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, size.width, size.height);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, NO, 0.0f);
CGContextRef cc = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetInterpolationQuality(cc, kCGInterpolationLow);
CGContextTranslateCTM(cc, 0, size.height);
CGContextScaleCTM(cc, 1.0, -1.0);
CGContextDrawImage(cc, sized, topSquareIR );
// arguably, those three lines more simply...
//[[UIImage imageWithCGImage:topSquareIR] drawInRect:sized];
CGImageRelease(topSquareIR);
UIImage *result = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
result =
[UIImage imageWithCGImage:result.CGImage
scale:result.scale
orientation: fromImage.imageOrientation];
//consider...something like...
//[UIImage imageWithCGImage:cgimg
// scale:3 orientation:fromImage.imageOrientation];
return result;
}
Consider also this valuable category .....
-(UIImage *)ordinaryCrop:(CGRect)toRect
{
// crops any image, to any rect. you can't beat that
CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([self CGImage], toRect);
UIImage *cropped = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef];
CGImageRelease(imageRef);
return cropped;
}
Finally don't forget this if you're using the camera "the most useful code in the universe!" iOS UIImagePickerController result image orientation after upload
Hope it helps somehow

Answer 2

Try setting this BOOL property before releasing result in cropOutArea.
result.layer.masksToBounds = YES