I am using the following code to save and load images that I pick from either the library or take using the camera:
//saving an image
- (void)saveImage:(UIImage*)image:(NSString*)imageName {
NSData *imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image); //convert image into .png format.
NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];//create instance of NSFileManager
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); //create an array and store result of our search for the documents directory in it
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; //create NSString object, that holds our exact path to the documents directory
NSString *fullPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@.png", imageName]]; //add our image to the path
[fileManager createFileAtPath:fullPath contents:imageData attributes:nil]; //finally save the path (image)
NSLog(@"image saved");
}
//loading an image
- (UIImage*)loadImage:(NSString*)imageName {
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *fullPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@.png", imageName]];
return [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:fullPath];
}
This is how I set the picked image to be shown in my UIImageView
:
imgView.image = [info objectForKey:@"UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"];
However, when I pick and image and set it to be shown in my UIImageView
it is fine, but when I load that image it often is the wrong orientation. Any ideas? Anyone experienced this or know how I could resolve this?
Thanks.
EDIT:
So it seems, if you load a photo which was taken a photo in portrait upside-down, it loads in that orientation, if you take a photo in landscape left it loads in that orientation. Any ideas how to get around this? Whatever orientation they load it they always return as UIImageOrientationUp.
I have faced similar problem and here is how I solved it.
While we save image we need to save its orientation information along with the image ...
NSUserDefaults *userDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
[userDefaults setInteger:[myImage imageOrientation] forKey:@"kImageOrientation"];
[imageOrientation release];
And we load image we need to read its orientation information and apply it to the image…
UIImage *tempImage = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:fullPath];
UIImage *orientedImage= [[UIImage alloc] initWithCGImage: tempImage.CGImage scale:1.0 orientation:imageOrientation];
[tempImage release];
orientedImage
is what we need.
Thanks,