UIImagePickerController camera device issue - iphone

Question

I have the following problem: when I use the UIImagePickerController, AFTER I capture the picture and the shutter appears and disappears, there is a screen, with the captured picture, and two buttons: "Retake" and "Use". Even if I take the picture in landscapeLeft, or landscapeRight, on the above mentioned screen the taken picture appears in portrait, no matter what.
Now, my question is the following: how can I make the picked image appear in it's original orientation?
Thanks

Answer 1

When you pick a photo and UIImagePickerController called imagePickerController: didFinishPickingImage: editingInfo: method on it's delegate than you could inspect uiimage which it returns. And it should have orientation property. If it's not zero than normalize it. I added imageWithFixedOrientation method to UIImage over a category. See it's code below:
- (UIImage *)imageWithFixedOrientation {
// No-op if the orientation is already correct
if (self.imageOrientation == UIImageOrientationUp) return self;
// We need to calculate the proper transformation to make the image upright.
// We do it in 2 steps: Rotate if Left/Right/Down, and then flip if Mirrored.
CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
switch (self.imageOrientation) {
case UIImageOrientationDown:
case UIImageOrientationDownMirrored:
transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, self.size.width, self.size.height);
transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI);
break;
case UIImageOrientationLeft:
case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored:
transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, self.size.width, 0);
transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, M_PI_2);
break;
case UIImageOrientationRight:
case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored:
transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, 0, self.size.height);
transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, -M_PI_2);
break;
default:
break;
}
switch (self.imageOrientation) {
case UIImageOrientationUpMirrored:
case UIImageOrientationDownMirrored:
transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, self.size.width, 0);
transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1, 1);
break;
case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored:
case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored:
transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, self.size.height, 0);
transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1, 1);
break;
default:
break;
}
// Now we draw the underlying CGImage into a new context, applying the transform
// calculated above.
CGContextRef ctx = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, self.size.width, self.size.height,
CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(self.CGImage), 0,
CGImageGetColorSpace(self.CGImage),
CGImageGetBitmapInfo(self.CGImage));
CGContextConcatCTM(ctx, transform);
switch (self.imageOrientation) {
case UIImageOrientationLeft:
case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored:
case UIImageOrientationRight:
case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored:
// Grr...
CGContextDrawImage(ctx, CGRectMake(0,0,self.size.height,self.size.width), self.CGImage);
break;
default:
CGContextDrawImage(ctx, CGRectMake(0,0,self.size.width,self.size.height), self.CGImage);
break;
}
// And now we just create a new UIImage from the drawing context
CGImageRef cgimg = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(ctx);
UIImage *img = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:cgimg];
CGContextRelease(ctx);
CGImageRelease(cgimg);
return img;
}