Resizing Photo, Instead of Cropping

[DenVog]

I am taking an image from the camera and want to resize it to new dimensions. When I say resize, I mean I want to keep all of the photo and just make it smaller so that it will fit into a context that I can manipulate (I understand the limit of a cgcontext is 1024). What I have is making a new image with the dimensions I want, but it is doing by cropping the photo instead of resizing it. So I am losing some of the image. What I need is to scale it down.

Any help is appreciated. I've been through several other threads and must be close, but have gotten stuck. Thanks.

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingImage:(UIImage *)image editingInfo:(NSDictionary *)editingInfo {
	// create a new bitmap image context to fit in maximum image dimension for cgcontext of 1024.
	UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(768, 1024));		
	CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();		
        // draw the image from the camera into the current context
	[image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, 768, 1024)];
	// push context to make it current (need to do this manually because we are not drawing in a UIView)
	UIGraphicsPushContext(context);								
	// pop context Removes the current graphics context from the top of the stack, restoring the previous context, balance calls to the UIGraphicsPushContext function
	UIGraphicsPopContext();								
	// get a UIImage from the image context
	UIImage *outputImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
	// clean up drawing environment
	UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
	// write the combined image to the photo album
	UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(outputImage, nil, nil, nil);
	[[picker parentViewController] dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];	
}

[cbiggin]

You have to create your new context at the dimensions of the photo, then draw into the new dimensions. Also, I don't think you need to push/pop the current context. Try this:

    CGFloat imageWidth = CGImageGetWidth([inImage CGImage]);
    CGFloat imageHeight = CGImageGetHeight([inImage CGImage]);
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(imageWidth, imageHeight));
    CGRect drawRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 768, 1024);
    [inImage drawInRect:drawRect];
    newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();