Comments on: Code Sample: Crop an image using the iPhone SDK

By: freenoiz

freenoiz — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:14:17 +0000

@sanket – Have you found how to capture an image in other shapes not rectangular ?

Thanks for your help.

By: Frank Cheng

Frank Cheng — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:58:09 +0000

I am trying to display a view which combines the first half of image1.png and the second half of image2.png. Please help me with some sample codes. Frank

By: sanket

sanket — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:49:52 +0000

hello everyone,

Thanks for sharing code,that is really very helpful.
now we know that how to crop an image in rectangular shape.
but when i want to crop face or anything else rectangle may not help.

so my question is how to capture an image in oval or any other shape?
can we take pixel array for that?

any guidelines or help will be appreciated.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:03:31 +0000

This code causes a crash for me. I can easily reproduce it and I’ve definitely narrowed it down to this code. When I take it out, the crash disappears. It may be the way I’m using it, but I can’t figure it out. The crash is caused by a double release. I copied and pasted this code into my app and then called it like so:

myImageView.image = [self imageByCropping:otherImageView.image toRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, 64, 64)];

I’ve tried everything to debug it, but I can’t figure it out. The debugger kindly suggests “set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug” but that doesn’t seem to help.

By: calebhc

calebhc — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:47:46 +0000

Hey HitScan, thanks for the code. It worked very nicely.

By: Generating UIImage Thumbnails – Scattered Focus

Generating UIImage Thumbnails – Scattered Focus — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:26:24 +0000

[...] the thumbnail to be skewed so cropping was required. All of the examples I found either focused on cropping only or resizing but I couldn’t find any that did [...]

By: shankins

shankins — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:35:05 +0000

Wow, Thank you much for this code. Excellent.

By: HitScan

HitScan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:15:17 +0000

Actually there is a simple way to crop an image. Look up CGImageCreateWithImageInRect(CGImageRef, CGRect) in the documentation, it’s pretty nice.

You could change the guts of imageByCropping:toRect: basically to this:

- (UIImage *)imageByCropping:(UIImage *)imageToCrop toRect:(CGRect)rect  {
CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([imageToCrop CGImage], rect); 
UIImage *cropped = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef];
CGImageRelease(imageRef);

  return cropped; 
}

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:16:45 +0000

RuuD’s code required a slight tweak for me when rect.origin wasn’t at (0,0).

CGContextTranslateCTM(currentContext, 0.0, rect.size.height);
CGContextScaleCTM(currentContext, 1.0, -1.0);

(rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y) are the coordinates from the lower-left corner of imageToCrop in its normal orientation.

By: Capt. Bill

Capt. Bill — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:07:15 +0000

Ahoy!

My hats off to ye! A wonderful bit of code to share that worked like a charm. It’s rare to find such true copy/paste code that works this well. I did have to implement the code RuuD posted to prevent the flippage but then all was well.

Thanks again, me hearty!