How to Scale Down a Uiimage and Make It Crispy/Sharp At the Same Time Instead of Blurry

How to scale down a UIImage and make it crispy / sharp at the same time instead of blurry?

Merely using imageWithCGImage is not sufficient. It will scale, but the result will be blurry and suboptimal whether scaling up or down.

If you want to get the aliasing right and get rid of the "jaggies" you need something like this: http://vocaro.com/trevor/blog/2009/10/12/resize-a-uiimage-the-right-way/.

My working test code looks something like this, which is Trevor's solution with one small adjustment to work with my transparent PNGs:

- (UIImage *)resizeImage:(UIImage*)image newSize:(CGSize)newSize {
    CGRect newRect = CGRectIntegral(CGRectMake(0, 0, newSize.width, newSize.height));
    CGImageRef imageRef = image.CGImage;

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, NO, 0);
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    // Set the quality level to use when rescaling
    CGContextSetInterpolationQuality(context, kCGInterpolationHigh);
    CGAffineTransform flipVertical = CGAffineTransformMake(1, 0, 0, -1, 0, newSize.height);

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

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

    CGImageRelease(newImageRef);
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();    

    return newImage;
}

Scaling down UIImage and keep it sharp

As I suspected in my comment, it's due to the fact that CGBitmapContextCreateImage will ignore the scale that you input into UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions – and instead always create an image with a scale of 1.0.

For example if you have a 50 x 50 image context at a 3x scale:

• CGBitmapContextCreateImage will return a 150 x 150 image at 1x scale

• UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext will return a 50 x 50 image at 3x scale

Usually this shouldn't actually make a difference when displaying the image on-screen, unless you rely on the size to be specified in points rather than pixels. However, for an MKAnnotationView, the documentation says:

Assigning a new image to this property also changes the size of the view’s frame so that it matches the width and height of the new image.

Therefore if you assign it an image with a 1x scale (and your screen's scale is higher than 1x) – it will be unnecessarily scaled up, therefore losing quality. The fix therefore is to use UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext.

How to resize an image and avoid it being blurry?

There is no need to re-size the image. Just set below property to your image view.

 [myCell.homeImage setImageWithURL:url
                     placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"menuButton.png"]
                            completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType) {
                                // inspect cacheType here to make sure it's cached as you want it
                               myCell.homeImage.image = image;
                               myCell.homeImage.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;
                            }];

The simplest way to resize an UIImage?

The simplest way is to set the frame of your UIImageView and set the contentMode to one of the resizing options.

Or you can use this utility method, if you actually need to resize an image:

+ (UIImage *)imageWithImage:(UIImage *)image scaledToSize:(CGSize)newSize {
    //UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(newSize);
    // In next line, pass 0.0 to use the current device's pixel scaling factor (and thus account for Retina resolution).
    // Pass 1.0 to force exact pixel size.
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, NO, 0.0);
    [image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, newSize.width, newSize.height)];
    UIImage *newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();    
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    return newImage;
}

Example usage:

#import "MYUtil.h"
…
UIImage *myIcon = [MYUtil imageWithImage:myUIImageInstance scaledToSize:CGSizeMake(20, 20)];

Resize UIImage to 200x200pt/px

Here is my code. The Image is in width 850 px and not 200 px:

 func resizeImage(image: UIImage, newWidth: CGFloat) -> UIImage {

    let scale = newWidth / image.size.width
    let newHeight = image.size.height * scale
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(newWidth, newHeight))
    image.drawInRect(CGRectMake(0, 0, newWidth, newHeight))
    let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

    return newImage
}


@IBAction func chooseImage(sender: AnyObject) {


    var myPickerController = UIImagePickerController()
    myPickerController.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.PhotoLibrary
    myPickerController.delegate = self;
    self.presentViewController(myPickerController, animated: true, completion: nil)


}

func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [NSObject : AnyObject])

{
    var imagenow = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as? UIImage

    imageImage.image = resizeImage(imagenow!, newWidth: 200)



    pimg2 = imageImage.image!

    cidnew2 = textFieldCID!.text!
    pname2 = textFieldName!.text
    pmanu2 = textFieldMan!.text
    pnick2 = textFieldNick!.text
    podate2 = textFieldPODate!.text
    pno2 = textFieldArtNo!.text



    self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)

}

How to cache image and scale it correctly?

SDWebImage docs says it caches automatically. As for scaling, there's plenty of net code like this around. The trick is integrating it with SDWebImage. Fortunately, it provides a completion block:

NSURL *url = /* prepare a url... see note below */
[myCell.homeImage setImageWithURL:url
               placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"menuButton.png"]
                      completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType) {
    // inspect cacheType here to make sure it's cached as you want it
    myCell.homeImage.image = [self scaleImage:image toSize:CGSizeMake(75,75)];
}];

A simple scale would look something like this (not tested):

- (UIImage *)scale:(UIImage *)image toSize:(CGSize)size {
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, NO, 0.0);
    [image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height)];
    UIImage *newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();    
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    return newImage;
}

Incidentally, I notice that you use generic string manipulation to build the URL. You'd be better off using the specialized methods on string as follows:

// this can be defined outside cellForRowAtIndexPath
NSURL *baseUrl = [NSURL urlWithString:@"http://example.com/"];

NSString *imageItemName = [homeImages objectAtIndex:row];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:imageItemName relativeToURL:baseURL];

High Quality Scaling of UIImage

About UIImage resize problem, this post give many ways to handle UIImage object. The UIImage has some orientation problems need to be fixed. This and Another post will address it.

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-(UIImage*)resizedImageToSize:(CGSize)dstSize
{
    CGImageRef imgRef = self.CGImage;
    // the below values are regardless of orientation : for UIImages from Camera, width>height (landscape)
    CGSize  srcSize = CGSizeMake(CGImageGetWidth(imgRef), CGImageGetHeight(imgRef)); // not equivalent to self.size (which is dependant on the imageOrientation)!

    /* Don't resize if we already meet the required destination size. */
    if (CGSizeEqualToSize(srcSize, dstSize)) {
        return self;
    }

    CGFloat scaleRatio = dstSize.width / srcSize.width;

    // Handle orientation problem of UIImage
    UIImageOrientation orient = self.imageOrientation;
    CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
    switch(orient) {

        case UIImageOrientationUp: //EXIF = 1
            transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationUpMirrored: //EXIF = 2
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(srcSize.width, 0.0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1.0, 1.0);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationDown: //EXIF = 3
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(srcSize.width, srcSize.height);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationDownMirrored: //EXIF = 4
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, srcSize.height);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, 1.0, -1.0);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored: //EXIF = 5
            dstSize = CGSizeMake(dstSize.height, dstSize.width);
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(srcSize.height, srcSize.width);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1.0, 1.0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, 3.0 * M_PI_2);
            break;  

        case UIImageOrientationLeft: //EXIF = 6  
            dstSize = CGSizeMake(dstSize.height, dstSize.width);
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, srcSize.width);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, 3.0 * M_PI_2);
            break;  

        case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored: //EXIF = 7  
            dstSize = CGSizeMake(dstSize.height, dstSize.width);
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(-1.0, 1.0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI_2);
            break;  

        case UIImageOrientationRight: //EXIF = 8  
            dstSize = CGSizeMake(dstSize.height, dstSize.width);
            transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(srcSize.height, 0.0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI_2);
            break;  

        default:  
            [NSException raise:NSInternalInconsistencyException format:@"Invalid image orientation"];  

    }  

    /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // The actual resize: draw the image on a new context, applying a transform matrix
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(dstSize, NO, self.scale);

    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

       if (!context) {
           return nil;
       }

    if (orient == UIImageOrientationRight || orient == UIImageOrientationLeft) {
        CGContextScaleCTM(context, -scaleRatio, scaleRatio);
        CGContextTranslateCTM(context, -srcSize.height, 0);
    } else {  
        CGContextScaleCTM(context, scaleRatio, -scaleRatio);
        CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, -srcSize.height);
    }

    CGContextConcatCTM(context, transform);

    // we use srcSize (and not dstSize) as the size to specify is in user space (and we use the CTM to apply a scaleRatio)
    CGContextDrawImage(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(), CGRectMake(0, 0, srcSize.width, srcSize.height), imgRef);
    UIImage* resizedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return resizedImage;
}

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