Can someone please help with some code for creating a thumbnail for a JPEG in Java.
I'm new at this, so a step by step explanation would be appreciated.
Image img = ImageIO.read(new File("test.jpg")).getScaledInstance(100, 100, BufferedImage.SCALE_SMOOTH);
This will create a 100x100 pixels thumbnail as an Image object. If you want to write it back to disk simply convert the code to this:
BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(100, 100, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
img.createGraphics().drawImage(ImageIO.read(new File("test.jpg")).getScaledInstance(100, 100, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH),0,0,null);
ImageIO.write(img, "jpg", new File("test_thumb.jpg"));
Also if you are concerned about speed issues (the method described above is rather slow if you want to scale many images) use these methods and the following declaration :
private BufferedImage scale(BufferedImage source,double ratio) {
int w = (int) (source.getWidth() * ratio);
int h = (int) (source.getHeight() * ratio);
BufferedImage bi = getCompatibleImage(w, h);
Graphics2D g2d = bi.createGraphics();
double xScale = (double) w / source.getWidth();
double yScale = (double) h / source.getHeight();
AffineTransform at = AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(xScale,yScale);
g2d.drawRenderedImage(source, at);
g2d.dispose();
return bi;
}
private BufferedImage getCompatibleImage(int w, int h) {
GraphicsEnvironment ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
GraphicsDevice gd = ge.getDefaultScreenDevice();
GraphicsConfiguration gc = gd.getDefaultConfiguration();
BufferedImage image = gc.createCompatibleImage(w, h);
return image;
}
And then call :
BufferedImage scaled = scale(img,0.5);
where 0.5 is the scale ratio and img is a BufferedImage containing the normal-sized image.