UIImagePickerController - crops picture to square (in portrait)

Question

I'm using the UIImagePickerController to take and edit a picture. it works fine in landscape, but in portrait it will crop the picture into a square (does not allow to reduce the image to fit fully into the square crop field like in landscape. Any ideas?

code:

-(IBAction)initCamera:(id)sender{

//Init imagePicker instance
UIImagePickerController *imagePicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
[imagePicker setDelegate:self];

[imagePicker setSourceType:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera];
[imagePicker setShowsCameraControls:YES];
[imagePicker setAllowsEditing:YES];

[self presentModalViewController:imagePicker animated:YES];
[imagePicker release];
}

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '12 at 11:11

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Check out GKImagePicker library, it allows to set your custom image crop area, like this:

self.imagePicker = [[GKImagePicker alloc] init];
self.imagePicker.cropSize = CGSizeMake(320, 90);
self.imagePicker.delegate = self;

[self presentModalViewController:self.imagePicker.imagePickerController animated:YES];

answered Oct 07 '12 at 11:11

Andrey Zverev

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it doesn't allow to set camera as sourcetype. It works with gallery only! – George Jul 17 '13 at 12:32
@George it allows to use images from both gallery and camera. – Andrey Zverev Oct 09 '13 at 14:54
I updated the answer to include a sample line for setting sourceType – Josh Lehman Oct 27 '13 at 05:06
@JoshLehman I am having same problem and this looks perfect but I can not see how you can set the source. – Recycled Steel Nov 15 '13 at 15:35
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@RecycledSteel You should use self.imagePicker.imagePickerController.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera; – Bms270 Nov 30 '13 at 06:18
When i add GK Library and images , it gives me errors . What to do .? – ios Feb 29 '16 at 04:45

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '14 at 05:14

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I know its really late to answer this question, But someone may find this helpful.

Change

[imagePicker setAllowsEditing:YES];

To

[imagePicker setAllowsEditing:NO];

Thanks, Jay

answered Dec 19 '14 at 05:14

Jay Pandya

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This simply disables cropping. Imagine a use-case where someone wanted to upload a full-size portrait, yet wanted to crop out parts of a landscape photo. – carbocation Oct 11 '15 at 17:59
@carbocation yes that can be a case. But thats whole new functionality i guess, that you can manage by checking **imageOrientation** property of image in `didFinishPickingImage:` delegate method of `UIImagePickerController` – Jay Pandya Oct 13 '15 at 05:28

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 20 '12 at 14:34

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You can provide a custom cropping UI, but there is no way to change just the cropping rectangle of the standard one.

This link might help with that.

answered Feb 20 '12 at 14:34

Peter Sarnowski

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Thanks. I'm just wondering why cropping works ok for landscape (I can fit the whole image into the cropping square, so nothing gets lost), but not for portrait, where it doesn't allow to fit the image into the square. – cabhara Feb 20 '12 at 14:49

UIImagePickerController - crops picture to square (in portrait)

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