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

Swift 5:

extension UIImage {
    func cropped(rect: CGRect) -> UIImage? {
        guard let cgImage = cgImage else { return nil }

        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(rect.size, false, 0)
        let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()

        context?.translateBy(x: 0.0, y: self.size.height)
        context?.scaleBy(x: 1.0, y: -1.0)
        context?.draw(cgImage, in: CGRect(x: rect.minX, y: rect.minY, width: self.size.width, height: self.size.height), byTiling: false)


        let croppedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        return croppedImage
    }
}

Answer 2

You can make a UIImage category and use it wherever you need. Based on HitScans response and comments bellow it.

@implementation UIImage (Crop)

- (UIImage *)crop:(CGRect)rect {

    rect = CGRectMake(rect.origin.x*self.scale, 
                      rect.origin.y*self.scale, 
                      rect.size.width*self.scale, 
                      rect.size.height*self.scale);       

    CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([self CGImage], rect);
    UIImage *result = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef 
                                          scale:self.scale 
                                    orientation:self.imageOrientation]; 
    CGImageRelease(imageRef);
    return result;
}

@end

You can use it this way:

UIImage *imageToCrop = <yourImageToCrop>;
CGRect cropRect = <areaYouWantToCrop>;   

//for example
//CGRectMake(0, 40, 320, 100);

UIImage *croppedImage = [imageToCrop crop:cropRect];

Answer 3

Below code snippet might help.

import UIKit

extension UIImage {
    func cropImage(toRect rect: CGRect) -> UIImage? {
        if let imageRef = self.cgImage?.cropping(to: rect) {
            return UIImage(cgImage: imageRef)
        }
        return nil
    }
}

Answer 4

Looks a little bit strange but works great and takes into consideration image orientation:

var image:UIImage = ...

let img = CIImage(image: image)!.imageByCroppingToRect(rect)
image = UIImage(CIImage: img, scale: 1, orientation: image.imageOrientation)

Answer 5

None of the answers here handle all of the scale and rotation issues 100% correctly. Here's a synthesis of everything said so far, up-to-date as of iOS7/8. It's meant to be included as a method in a category on UIImage.

- (UIImage *)croppedImageInRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    double (^rad)(double) = ^(double deg) {
        return deg / 180.0 * M_PI;
    };

    CGAffineTransform rectTransform;
    switch (self.imageOrientation) {
        case UIImageOrientationLeft:
            rectTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rad(90)), 0, -self.size.height);
            break;
        case UIImageOrientationRight:
            rectTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rad(-90)), -self.size.width, 0);
            break;
        case UIImageOrientationDown:
            rectTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rad(-180)), -self.size.width, -self.size.height);
            break;
        default:
            rectTransform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
    };
    rectTransform = CGAffineTransformScale(rectTransform, self.scale, self.scale);

    CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([self CGImage], CGRectApplyAffineTransform(rect, rectTransform));
    UIImage *result = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef scale:self.scale orientation:self.imageOrientation];
    CGImageRelease(imageRef);

    return result;
}

Answer 6

Follow Answer of @Arne. I Just fixing to Category function. put it in Category of UIImage.

-(UIImage*)cropImage:(CGRect)rect{

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