how to scale screenshot with out losing quality? - java

Now I am developing photography app for that I am developing pinch zooming and all apply effects selected image this is my code:
view = new SandboxView(getApplicationContext(), bmp);
And am adding this view to my frame layout. I am tacking screenshot of this layout for saving purpose,but it will gives based on screen width and screen height but I want with out losing image quality with 500*500 image.

What do you mean exactly when you say "without losing quality"? The only thing you can do is to use a smooth (but slow) scaling method. But when you scale down your image will lose information (that's a mathematical fact) and therefore you will lose quality. A good scaling algorithm will be able to show a picture that still looks nice to a human but there will be a loss.
And when you scale it to a bigger size using whatever scaling algorithm it will either look unsharp or bricky. There you do not lose information but the visual quality is not as you would expect it from a native image of the upscaled size.
So you only can save the original image and scale it to whateve size as soon as somebody wants to see it.

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ImageView Scaling for No Apparent Reason

I'm using Android Studio, and have created an ImageView in activity_mail.xml. The layout width and height are set to "match_parent". The scaleType is set to "center" and the source image is 70x70 pixels. When I run the app in the emulator the Image appears on the screen larger than 70x70 pixels. I mean it takes up more than 70x70 pixels on the screen of the phone. I don't know why it's doing this. The app is exclusively in Landscape mode, that might be relevant. Forgive me if I have included extraneous details, I genuinely don't know what information would be relevant to include. I intend to make it so that the image takes up 70x70 pixels on the screen of the phone. What is causing the unintended result, and how could I fix it?
change ScaleType, maybe fit_center instead of just center + android:adjustViewBounds="true” will fit your purposes... another way is to create ImageView with wrap_content sizes placed in some container (e.g. RelativeLayout) with match_parent sizes
also check this visual guide for ScaleType
note that 70px image will be big on devices with HD resolution and significantly smaller on those with e.g. full HD. you should have few versions of your image in proper density buckets (mdpi, hdpi etc.) or just download proper size if your image comes frome some API, so then you can say that you have image with 70dp dimension, not 70px

Best resolution resizing image using ImgScalr

I am very new to ImgScalr API.I need to resize my images to different views, one of them being a mobile view and second a thumbnail view.
I have made use of the resize method, but have a doubt. Which is the best of the resize method to resizing the image out of the multiple options available that keeps the proper aspect ratio(as in the image doesnt become blurred)
One thing I noticed was that every resize method takes in a targetSize argument. How does specifiying this field make sure that the aspect ratio of the image does not get affected.
What should the ideal arguments to the resize method be, given that I need to generate a 2 KB thumbnail view of my input image that may be of size of around 2 MB.
I am a bit confused because of the lack of enough documentation and examples.
imgscalr author here - definitely understand the confusion, the code base itself (if you happen to glance at GitHub) is almost 50% comments if you are curious how the library works, but from a usage perspective you are right - I didn't put a lot of time into examples.
Hopefully I can hit some highlights quickly for you...
Aspect Ratios
A core design tenant of imgscalr is to always honor the aspect ratio - so if you pass in 200x1 (some ridiculous dimension as an example) it will attempt to calculate the minimum dimension that will meet those 'target' dimensions.
This is handy if you always want your thumbnails in a certain box, like 200x200 -- just pass that in and imgscalr will determine a final width/height that won't be bigger than that (possibly something like 200x127 or 78x200)
Quality
By default the library does what is called a 'balanced' approach to quality by considering the delta in dimension change as well as scaling up/scaling down and chooses the most approach approach (speed VS quality).
You can force it to always scale as quickly as possible (good idea for scaling up operations) or can force it to always use high or ultra quality (good idea if you want really crisp thumbnails or other operations that drastically reduce the image resolution and you want them to still look decent)
On top of that you can also ask the library to apply some additional filtering to the image (called Image Ops) -- I ship some handy defaults out of the box like the anti-aliasing one if you are getting jagged edges on a lot of source material you are scaling (common when scaling screenshots of desktops and other things with diag straight lines)
Overall
The library is meant to be as simple as possible to use, something no harder than:
BufferedImage thumbnail = Scalr.resize(src, 128);
will get you started... all the other operations around quality, fitting, modes, ops, etc. are just additional things you can chose to do if you decide the result isn't quite what you wanted.
Hope that helps!

How to resize a BufferedImage in Java

I am looking for the simplest (and still non-problematic) way to resize a BufferedImage in Java.
In some answer to a question, the user coobird suggested the following solution, in his words (very slightly changed by me):
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The Graphics object has a method to draw an Image while also performing a resize operation:
Graphics.drawImage(Image, int, int, int, int, ImageObserver)
method can be used to specify the location along with the size of the image when drawing.
So, we could use a piece of code like this:
BufferedImage originalImage = // .. created somehow
BufferedImage newImage = new BufferedImage(SMALL_SIZE, SMALL_SIZE, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics g = newImage.createGraphics();
g.drawImage(originalImage, 0, 0, SMALL_SIZE, SMALL_SIZE, null);
g.dispose();
This will take originalImage and draw it on the newImage with the width and height of SMALL_SIZE.
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This solution seems rather simple. I have two questions about it:
Will it also work (using the exact same code), if I want to resize an image to a larger size, not only a smaller one?
Are there any problems with this solution?
If there is a better way to do this, please suggest it.
Thanks
The major problem with single step scaling is they don't generally produce quality output, as they focus on taking the original and squeezing into a smaller space, usually by dropping out a lot of pixel information (different algorithms do different things, so I'm generalizing)
Will drawGraphics scale up and down, yes, will it do it efficiently or produce a quality output? These will come down to implementation, generally speaking, most of the scaling algorithms used by default are focused on speed. You can effect these in a little way, but generally, unless you're scaling over a small range, the quality generally suffers (from my experience).
You can take a look at The Perils of Image.getScaledInstance() for more details and discussions on the topic.
Generally, what is generally recommend is to either use a dedicated library, like imgscalr, which, from the ten minutes I've played with it, does a pretty good job or perform a stepped scale.
A stepped scale basically steps the image up or down by the power of 2 until it reaches it's desired size. Remember, scaling up is nothing more then taking a pixel and enlarging it a little, so quality will always be an issue if you scale up to a very large size.
For example...
Quality of Image after resize very low -- Java
Scale the ImageIcon automatically to label size
Java: JPanel background not scaling
Remember, any scaling is generally an expensive operation (based on the original and target size of the image), so it is generally best to try and do those operations out side of the paint process and in the background where possible.
There is also the question whether you want to maintain the aspect ratio of the image? Based on you example, the image would be scaled in a square manner (stretched to meet to the requirements of the target size), this is generally not desired. You can pass -1 to either the width or height parameter and the underlying algorithm will maintain the aspect ratio of the original image or you could simply take control and make more determinations over whether you want to fill or fit the image to a target area, for example...
Java: maintaining aspect ratio of JPanel background image
In general, I avoid using drawImage or getScaledInstance most of the time (if your scaling only over a small range or want to do a low quality, fast scale, these can work) and rely more on things like fit/fill a target area and stepped scaling. The reason for using my own methods simply comes down to not always being allowed to use outside libraries. Nice not to have to re-invent the wheel where you can
It will enlarge the original if you set the parameters so. But: you should use some smart algorithm which preserves edges because simply enlarging an image will make it blurry and will result in worse perceived quality.
No problems. Theoretically this can even be hardware-accelerated on certain platforms.

Splash screen which fills the whole samrtphone screen, but not crop

I want to have a splash screen, something like a full picture, which doesn't crop in heigth or width on different smartphone screens.
Now I achieved a splash screen with android:scaleType="fitXY", but now the image is cropped on top or bottom or if the devices screen size changes to another aspect ratio it is cropped on the left and right.
What do I have to do? I've already read the android developer article Supporting Multiple Screens, but I don't get it how to achieve this.
A simple picture in the middle of the screen is just simple to get, but a picture which fills the screen is hard to get. Can you help me pls?
you should use center_crop per this purpose. From the doc
Scale the image uniformly (maintain the image's aspect ratio) so that
both dimensions (width and height) of the image will be equal to or
larger than the corresponding dimension of the view (minus padding).
There is no way to create one single asset and expect it to do not be cropper and to do not create black areas when the application is deployed in different screen sizes.
The android platform is designed to work dynamically with multiple screen sizes that any manufacture can change at any time, including new resolutions that you haven't thought about it yet.
Android can specify minimums for screen hight/width categories in which your resources will fall, but those are generics.
In order to use them, you will have to specify qualifiers in your drawables and create a different splash screen for every qualifier, as for example if you use drawable-w420dp, all the resources there will be used when the screen has a minimum width of 420dp (notice that are not pixels)
So you have two options:
You can use one single splash image and design margins of that image flexible enough in order to cope with the image being cropped in certain cases. You can play with different scaleTypes in your ImageView and take as a reference this website http://etcodehome.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/android-imageview-scaletype-samples.html even though as commented before, "center-crop" will be your best shot.
You can programatically use a specific image for a specific resolution.
2.1 Put in the assets directory, all the splash images that you want for all the specific resolutions or aspect ratios that you want to use
2.1 Get the screen size of the device with Get screen dimensions in pixels
2.2 Now you can load from the assets the image that you want dynamically
Use the below code
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
which will fill the entire screen.
Try Using Width and Height of image to "match_parent"

How might I enlarge image in java without losing quality?

I am working with images in Java. I have a set of images - let's say 600x800 pixels each.
I resize them at 100x100 and I make some stuff on it. Now I would like to enlarge the image at the beginning size without losing my changing and pixel quality. Is this possible?
No. This also isn't really a Java question. How would you do this with an image editor? If you resize twice (especially smaller than larger), you're going to lose quality.
Your best bet is to keep the native resolution, then use vector graphics to draw what you need - eliminating any unnecessary resizing. (I.E., calculate what you need to draw, taking into account the current size - without first resizing to 100x100.) This will also fix some issues you're also probably seeing regarding the aspect ratios - as when you would resize from 100x100 back to 600x800, whatever you added is going to appear "stretched" / wider.
I would like to enlarge the image at the beginning size without losing my changing and pixel quality. Is this possible?
Yes, it's possible and very simple.
Here's how you do it:
use your original.

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