How can I truncate the left side of an image stored in a UIImage object. Basically in certain situations I just want to show part of an image.
How can I do this on with the iOS sdk?
P.S. I tried changing the frame size of the UIImage but that just scales the image and distorts it.
A very simple way is to load the image into a UIImageView, and then add the view to another view. You can then position the image view so that its .frame.origin.x property is negative, which will place it off to the left. The parent view needs to have setMasksToBounds:YES called on it, or else the image view will still be fully-visible.
There are many other ways to achieve this effect as well, but this may be the simplest for you to implement.
to crop a UIImage, you can use one of the UIImage categories available out there, such as http://www.hive05.com/2008/11/crop-an-image-using-the-iphone-sdk/
For example, this frame will remove 100 pixel from the left side of a 200x200 pixel UIImage
CGRect clippedRect = CGRectMake(100, 0, 100, 200);
UIImage *cropped = [self imageByCropping:lightsOnImage toRect:clippedRect];
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In my application, i need the user to take a snap of only a 10 letter word (using overlay, which should be right in the centre of the screen of the UIImagePicker), and then in need to show him that image (only the part of the image covered by that rectangle). So, I need to crop that image according to the overlay.
Here, i have taken a picture using UIImagePickerControl. Now, i want to see the dimensions of the image that i have taken..
UIImage *imageToprocess = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];
NSLog(#"image width %f", imageToprocess.size.width);
NSLog(#"image height %f", imageToprocess.size.height);
I see the following result on console.. But how is this possible. the dimensions of the image is exceeding the dimension of the iPhone screen size.. (which is 320, 568)
UsingTesseractOCR[524:60b] image width 2448.000000
2013-12-17 16:02:18.962 UsingTesseractOCR[524:60b] image height 3264.000000
Can anybody help me out here?? I have gone through several questions here, but did not understand how to do it.
Please help..
Refer this sample code for image capturing and cropping.
https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/CropImageSample
For creating overlay, first create a custom view (of full dimensions of camera preview) and add an transparent image with just a rectangle in its background. use this view as overlay view.
myview =[[UIImageView alloc]init];
myview.frame=CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 431);
// why 431? bcoz height = height of device - height of tabbar present in the
bottom for camera controls of picker
//for iphone 4 ,480-49
myview.backgroundColor =[UIColor clearColor];
myview.opaque = NO;
myview.image =[UIImage imageNamed:#"A45Box.png"];
myview.userInteractionEnabled =YES;
note that you create a background image appropriately (means dimensions). You can also draw rectangle programmatically but this is much easy way.
Secondly, talking about your cropping issue, you have to get your hands dirty....Try these links for help
https://github.com/iosdeveloper/ImageCropper
https://github.com/barrettj/BJImageCropper
https://github.com/ardalahmet/SSPhotoCropperViewController
I have an oversized image loaded in a image view that goes out of bounds both vertically and horizontally.
The end user can scroll around the image (the oversized imageview is in a scrollview) and when they find an area that they like I would like to crop out the area of the image that is shown on the screen. (much like a screenshot but only of the imageview.image I'm then going to put that into a different Imageview.
I can't seem to work out how to accomplish the "screenshot" of the area of the image view's image that is currently showing on the screen.
You can use CGImageCreateWithImageInRect to create a subimage of the displayed image. Use contentOffset and the scrollViews bounds to create the rect from which you want to create the image.
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(scrollView.contentOffset.x, scrollView.contentOffset.y, CGRectGetWidth(scrollView.bounds), CGRectGetHeight(scrollView.bounds));
CGImageRef subImageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([originalImage CGImage], rect);
If you zoom your scrollView you will need to take the zoomLevel into account too.
I ended up using the following code to achieve what I was looking for to grab the image. Thank you to Karl for his input and a thank you to iNoob whom answer to a previous question [Located here on StackOverflow][1] I used for mine.
Just use the below code to take a "screenshot" just set anything you don't want in the image to.hidden = True; before the code to hide it from the screenshot and set them to .Hidden = FALSE; after the code to bring them back.
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(self.view.bounds.size, self.view.opaque, 0.0);
[self.view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *theImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
I have an image called Empty.png, it is a small-ish square tile, how could I instantiate the image to appear at several different points on the screen?
Thank you for any help in advance :)
You can can place UIImageView's wherever you want the image to appear.And then set the image property of each image view as this image. (UIImage object).
If you are using interface builder then you just have to type in the name of the file in the attributes inspector of the imageview in the interface builder.
Or you could do this:
UIImage *img = [UIImage imageName:#"Empty.png"];
imageView.image = img; //Assuming this is your utlet to the image view.
It depends on how you want to use it.
If you just draw it with core graphics, let's say in drawInRect: or so, then you simply draw it several times.
If you want to display it within one or a number of image views, then instanciate your UIImageViews and assign the same object to all of them. Or let the Interface Builder do the instanciation for you. But you cannot add a single UIView object several times to one or a number of subview-hierarchies. If you add a UIView as subview to a view then it will disappear from the position where it was before.
10 UIImageView may use the same UIView but you need 10 UIImageViews to display all of them.
The same applies to UIButtons and every UI-thing that has an image or background image.
this will get you one image into some view
CGPoint position = CGPointMake(x,y);
UIImageView *img = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
img.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"Empty.png"];
img.frame = CGRectMake(position.x, position.y, img.image.size.width, img.image.size.height);
[someUIView addSubview:img];
if you make an array for the positions (x,y) of all the images, then you can just run it in a for loop and it will place the images into the view at the positions you want
note: CGPoints cant be stored in an NSArray since its not an NSObject type, either use a C/C++ array or use something else that can fit into a NSArray
I am letting the user capture an image from the camera or picking one from the library.
This image I display in an UIImageView.
The user can now scale and position the image within a bounding box, exactly like you would do using the UIImagePickerController when allowsEditing is set to YES.
When the user is satisfied with the result and taps Done I would like to produce a cropped UIImage.
The problem arises when using CGImageCreateWithImageInRect as this does not take the scaling into account. The transform is applied to the imageView like this:
CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformScale(self.imageView.transform, newScale, newScale);
[self.imageView setTransform:transform];
Using a gestureRecognizer.
I assume what is happening is; the UIImageView is scaled and moved, it then applies the UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit to the UIImage is holds and when I ask it to crop the image, it does exactly that - whit no regards to the scaling positioning. The reason I think this, is that if I don't scale or move the image but just tap Done straight away the cropping works.
I crop the image like this:
- (UIImage *)cropImage:(UIImage*) img toRect:(CGRect)rect {
CGFloat scale = [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale];
if (scale>1.0) {
rect = CGRectMake(rect.origin.x*scale , rect.origin.y*scale, rect.size.width*scale, rect.size.height*scale);
}
CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([img CGImage], rect);
UIImage *result = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef scale:self.imageView.image.scale orientation:self.imageView.image.imageOrientation];
// UIImage *result = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef];
CGImageRelease(imageRef);
return result;
}
Passing in a cropRect from a view that is a subView of my main view (the square overlay box, like in UIImagePickerController). Main UIView has a UIImageView that gets scaled and a UIView that displays the crop rectangle.
How can I get the "what you see is what you get" cropping and which factors must I take into account. Or maybe suggestions if I should implemented the hierarchy or scaling differently.
Try a simple trick. Apple has got samples on its site to show how to zoom into a photo using code. Once done zooming, using graphic context take the frame size of the bounding view, and take the image with that. Eg Uiview contains scroll view which has the zoomed image. So the scrollview zooms and so does your image, now take the frame size of your bounding UIview, and create an image context out of it and then save that as a new image. Tell me if that makes sense.
Cheers :)
I'm searching a way to draw stretchable image as background of my custom cell background view. I would like to use drawRect method and draw an image stretched exactly as it would be stretched with stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth in a UIImageView... how can i continue this code to make it happen ?
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect{
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
UIImage *bgImg =[[UIImage imageNamed:#"bg_table_top"]stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:3 topCapHeight:0];
//How to draw the image stretched as the self.bounds size ?
....
}
Any reason not to let UIImageView do this? (Include one as a child of your custom cell.) It's true that reducing child views can be a performance improvement in tables, but UIImageView is also pretty good at getting good performance when drawing images.
My guess is otherwise you're going to have to do multiple draw calls, in order to get the ends and middle drawn correctly.