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openfrog
openfrog

Reputation: 40735

How to scale up an UIImage without smoothening anything?

I want to scale up an UIImage in such a way, that the user can see the pixels in the UIImage very sharp. When I put that to an UIImageView and scale the transform matrix up, the UIImage appears antialiased and smoothed.

Is there a way to render in a bigger bitmap context by simply repeating every row and every column to get bigger pixels? How could I do that?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 5824

Answers (5)

Jayden Irwin
Jayden Irwin

Reputation: 977

Swift 5

let image = UIImage(named: "Foo")
let scaledImageSize = image.size.applying(CGAffineTransform(scaleX: 2, y: 2))

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(scaledImageSize)
let scaledContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!
scaledContext.interpolationQuality = .none
image.draw(in: CGRect(origin: .zero, size: scaledImageSize))
let scaledImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()!

Upvotes: 2

Khomsan
Khomsan

Reputation: 553

When drawing directly into bitmap context, we can use:

CGContextSetInterpolationQuality(myBitmapContext, kCGInterpolationNone);

I found this on CGContextDrawImage very slow on iPhone 4

Upvotes: 2

Sergei Kuzmin
Sergei Kuzmin

Reputation: 948

For UIImage created from CIImage you may use:

imageView.image = UIImage(CIImage: ciImage.imageByApplyingTransform(CGAffineTransformMakeScale(kScale, kScale)))

Upvotes: -1

Eliot
Eliot

Reputation: 5659

I was also trying this (on a sublayer) and I couldn't get it working, it was still blurry. This is what I had to do:

const CGFloat PIXEL_SCALE = 2;
layer.magnificationFilter = kCAFilterNearest; //Nearest neighbor texture filtering
layer.transform = CATransform3DMakeScale(PIXEL_SCALE, PIXEL_SCALE, 1); //Scale layer up
//Rasterize w/ sufficient resolution to show sharp pixels
layer.shouldRasterize = YES;
layer.rasterizationScale = PIXEL_SCALE;

Upvotes: 1

Peter DeWeese
Peter DeWeese

Reputation: 18333

#import <QuartzCore/CALayer.h>

view.layer.magnificationFilter = kCAFilterNearest

Upvotes: 26

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