Question

I am using the iPad photo library (camera roll) to import some images, and place them in a UIImageView I create using the alloc method. but when the images are shown there is a great image quality loss. For example, in the library there is an image with a river which is very sharp, pixel by pixel, but when I import it it loses at least half of the pixels. This is the code for importing the image:

- (IBAction) useCameraRoll: (id)sender
{
    @autoreleasepool {

if ([self.popoverController isPopoverVisible]) {
    [self.popoverController dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];

} else{

    }{
    if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:
         UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeSavedPhotosAlbum])
    {
        @autoreleasepool {

        UIImagePickerController *imagePicker =
        [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];

        imagePicker.delegate = self;
        imagePicker.sourceType =
        UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
        imagePicker.mediaTypes = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
                                  (NSString *) kUTTypeImage,
                                  nil];

        imagePicker.allowsEditing = YES;

        self.popoverController = [[UIPopoverController alloc]
                                  initWithContentViewController:imagePicker];
        }
        popoverController.delegate = self;

        [self.popoverController 
         presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem:sender
         permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionUp
         animated:YES];


        newMedia = NO;


    }}
}
}

-(void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info
{
    [self.popoverController dismissPopoverAnimated:true];
@autoreleasepool {

NSString *mediaType = [info
                       objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaType];

if ([mediaType isEqualToString:(NSString *)kUTTypeImage]) {
    UIImage *image = [info
                      objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerEditedImage];

    image1.image = image;
    if (newMedia)
        UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(image,
                                       self,  
                                           @selector(image:finishedSavingWithError:contextInfo:),
                                       nil);
}
else if ([mediaType isEqualToString:(NSString *)kUTTypeMovie])
{
    // Code here to support video if enabled
}}
}

-(void)image:(UIImage *)image
finishedSavingWithError:(NSError *)error
 contextInfo:(void *)contextInfo
{
if (error) {
    UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
                          initWithTitle: @"Save failed"
                          message: @"Failed to save image"\
                          delegate: nil
                          cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
                          otherButtonTitles:nil];
    [alert show];
}
}

-(void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
{

}

And the quality difference (image zoomed in) but you can clearly see the difference even in small scale:

iOS library:

My UIImageView:

Answer 1

Maybe you should use

UIImage *img = [info valueForKey:@"UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"];

to get the original Image.