I needed the same thing – in my case, to pick the dimension that fits once scaled, and then crop each end to fit the rest to the width. (I’m working in landscape, so might not have noticed any deficiencies in portrait mode.) Here’s my code – it’s part of a categeory on UIImage. Target size in my code is always set to the full screen size of the device.
@implementation UIImage (Extras)
#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Scale and crop image
- (UIImage*)imageByScalingAndCroppingForSize:(CGSize)targetSize
{
UIImage *sourceImage = self;
UIImage *newImage = nil;
CGSize imageSize = sourceImage.size;
CGFloat width = imageSize.width;
CGFloat height = imageSize.height;
CGFloat targetWidth = targetSize.width;
CGFloat targetHeight = targetSize.height;
CGFloat scaleFactor = 0.0;
CGFloat scaledWidth = targetWidth;
CGFloat scaledHeight = targetHeight;
CGPoint thumbnailPoint = CGPointMake(0.0,0.0);
if (CGSizeEqualToSize(imageSize, targetSize) == NO)
{
CGFloat widthFactor = targetWidth / width;
CGFloat heightFactor = targetHeight / height;
if (widthFactor > heightFactor)
{
scaleFactor = widthFactor; // scale to fit height
}
else
{
scaleFactor = heightFactor; // scale to fit width
}
scaledWidth = width * scaleFactor;
scaledHeight = height * scaleFactor;
// center the image
if (widthFactor > heightFactor)
{
thumbnailPoint.y = (targetHeight - scaledHeight) * 0.5;
}
else
{
if (widthFactor < heightFactor)
{
thumbnailPoint.x = (targetWidth - scaledWidth) * 0.5;
}
}
}
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(targetSize); // this will crop
CGRect thumbnailRect = CGRectZero;
thumbnailRect.origin = thumbnailPoint;
thumbnailRect.size.width = scaledWidth;
thumbnailRect.size.height = scaledHeight;
[sourceImage drawInRect:thumbnailRect];
newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
if(newImage == nil)
{
NSLog(@"could not scale image");
}
//pop the context to get back to the default
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return newImage;
}