iOS - UIImageView - how to handle UIImage image orientation

Question

Is it possible to setup UIImageView to handle image orientation? When I set the UIImageView to image with orientation RIGHT (it is photo from camera roll), the image is rotated to right, but I want to show it in proper orientation, as it was taken.

I know I can rotate image data but it is possible to do it more elegant?

Thank you

Tommy · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-18 19:05:48Z

If I understand, what you want to do is disregard the orientation of the UIImage? If so then you could do this:

UIImage *originalImage = [... whatever ...];

UIImage *imageToDisplay =
     [UIImage imageWithCGImage:[originalImage CGImage]
              scale:1.0
              orientation: UIImageOrientationUp];

So you‘re creating a new UIImage with the same pixel data as the original (referenced via its CGImage property) but you‘re specifying an orientation that doesn‘t rotate the data.

By the way, how can I actually rotate the image data? – Eno Mar 8 ‘12 at 7:19 — Eno, Mar 8 ‘12 at 7:19
I guess you‘d create a suitably sized CGContext with CGBitmapContextCreate (or with theUIGraphicsBeginImageContext shorthand), use CGContextRotateCTM to set a rotation, use eitherdrawInRect: on the UIImage or CGContextDrawImage with the image‘s CGImage property, then convert the context to an image either with UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext (and, then,UIGraphicsEndImageContext) if you used UIKit to create the context, orCGBitmapContextCreateImage if you were sticking with the Core Graphics. UIKit isn‘t very thread safe, but the code would be neater. – Tommy Mar 8 ‘12 at 20:31 — Tommy, Mar 8 ‘12 at 20:31

Brad Larson · Answer 2 · 2013-09-03 02:00:16Z

As Anomie suggests in their answer here, this code will help to fix orientation:

- (UIImage *)fixrotation:(UIImage *)image{


    if (image.imageOrientation == UIImageOrientationUp) return image;
    CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;

    switch (image.imageOrientation) {
        case UIImageOrientationDown:
        case UIImageOrientationDownMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, image.size.width, image.size.height);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationLeft:
        case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, image.size.width, 0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI_2);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationRight:
        case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, 0, image.size.height);
            transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, -M_PI_2);
            break;
        case UIImageOrientationUp:
        case UIImageOrientationUpMirrored:
            break;
    }

    switch (image.imageOrientation) {
        case UIImageOrientationUpMirrored:
        case UIImageOrientationDownMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, image.size.width, 0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1, 1);
            break;

        case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored:
        case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored:
            transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, image.size.height, 0);
            transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1, 1);
            break;
        case UIImageOrientationUp:
        case UIImageOrientationDown:
        case UIImageOrientationLeft:
        case UIImageOrientationRight:
            break;
    }

    // Now we draw the underlying CGImage into a new context, applying the transform
    // calculated above.
    CGContextRef ctx = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, image.size.width, image.size.height,
                                             CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(image.CGImage), 0,
                                             CGImageGetColorSpace(image.CGImage),
                                             CGImageGetBitmapInfo(image.CGImage));
    CGContextConcatCTM(ctx, transform);
    switch (image.imageOrientation) {
        case UIImageOrientationLeft:
        case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored:
        case UIImageOrientationRight:
        case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored:
            // Grr...
            CGContextDrawImage(ctx, CGRectMake(0,0,image.size.height,image.size.width), image.CGImage);
            break;

        default:
            CGContextDrawImage(ctx, CGRectMake(0,0,image.size.width,image.size.height), image.CGImage);
            break;
    }

    // And now we just create a new UIImage from the drawing context
    CGImageRef cgimg = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(ctx);
    UIImage *img = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:cgimg];
    CGContextRelease(ctx);
    CGImageRelease(cgimg);
    return img;

}

and seems to have been copied from stackoverflow.com/questions/5427656/… – Geoff Hackworth May 27 ‘13 at 8:34 — Geoff Hackworth, May 27 ‘13 at 8:34
It‘s kinda sad how he got 11 up votes for plagiarism. – Rambatino Nov 17 ‘14 at 19:56 — Rambatino, Nov 17 ‘14 at 19:56
Also note that CGContextDrawImage takes about 40MB for a 5MB image... – Yerk Mar 9 at 19:12 — Yerk, Mar 9 at 19:12
@Yerk do you know what I can do instead, to stop this huge file increase? – TimWhiting Apr 1 at 10:56 — TimWhiting, Apr 1 at 10:56

user2067021 · Answer 3 · 2014-07-15 23:57:59Z

You can completely avoid manually doing the transforms and scaling yourself, as suggested by an0 in this answer here:

- (UIImage *)normalizedImage {
    if (self.imageOrientation == UIImageOrientationUp) return self; 

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(self.size, NO, self.scale);
    [self drawInRect:(CGRect){0, 0, self.size}];
    UIImage *normalizedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    return normalizedImage;
}

The documentation for the UIImage methods size and drawInRect explicitly states that they take into account orientation.

score 4down vote · Answer 4

here is a workable sample cod, considering the image orientation:

#define rad(angle) ((angle) / 180.0 * M_PI)
- (CGAffineTransform)orientationTransformedRectOfImage:(UIImage *)img
{
    CGAffineTransform rectTransform;
    switch (img.imageOrientation)
    {
        case UIImageOrientationLeft:
            rectTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rad(90)), 0, -img.size.height);
            break;
        case UIImageOrientationRight:
            rectTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rad(-90)), -img.size.width, 0);
            break;
        case UIImageOrientationDown:
            rectTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rad(-180)), -img.size.width, -img.size.height);
            break;
        default:
            rectTransform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
    };

    return CGAffineTransformScale(rectTransform, img.scale, img.scale);
}


- (UIImage *)croppedImage:(UIImage*)orignialImage InRect:(CGRect)visibleRect{
    //transform visible rect to image orientation
    CGAffineTransform rectTransform = [self orientationTransformedRectOfImage:orignialImage];
    visibleRect = CGRectApplyAffineTransform(visibleRect, rectTransform);

    //crop image
    CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([orignialImage CGImage], visibleRect);
    UIImage *result = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef scale:orignialImage.scale orientation:orignialImage.imageOrientation];
    CGImageRelease(imageRef);
    return result;
}

iOS - UIImageView - how to handle UIImage image orientation

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