UIImagePNGRepresentation issues? / Images rotated by 90 degrees

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disorderdev picture disorderdev · Aug 24, 2010 · Viewed 30.7k times · Source

I want to load images from UIImagePickerController, then save the selected photo to my app's document directory.

UIImage *image = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];
NSData *data1 = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image);

NSString *fileName = "1.png";
NSString *path = //get Document path, then add fileName
BOOL succ = [data1 writeToFile:path atomically:YES];

but after I save the image to my document, I found that, the image was rotated 90 degree, then I change the method UIImagePNGRepresentation to UIImageJPEGRepresentation, this time it's fine, anyone know what's the problem?

Answer

jasongregori picture jasongregori · Feb 1, 2011

I had the same problem and just figured out the reason: starting with iOS 4.0 when the camera takes a photo it does not rotate it before saving, it simply sets a rotation flag in the EXIF data of the JPEG.

If you save a UIImage as a JPEG, it will set the rotation flag.

PNGs do not support a rotation flag, so if you save a UIImage as a PNG, it will be rotated incorrectly and not have a flag set to fix it. So if you want PNGs you must rotate them yourself.

I would call this a bug in the PNG saving function but that's just an opinion (they should at least warn you about this).

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