Question

I have this code, which creates an image, and then adds some effects to it and sizes it down to make largeThumbnail.

UIImage *originalImage = [UIImage imageWithData:self.originalImage];
thumbnail = createLargeThumbnailFromImage(originalImage);

NSLog(@"thumbnail: %f", thumbnail.size.height);
NSData *thumbnailData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(thumbnail, 1.0);

Later on:

UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:self.largeThumbnail];
NSLog(@"thumbnail 2: %f", image.size.height);

NSLog returns:

thumbnail: 289.000000
thumbnail 2: 578.000000

As you can see, when it converts the image back from data, it makes it 2x the size. Any ideas why this may be happening?

Large thumbnail code:

UIImage *createLargeThumbnailFromImage(UIImage *image) {
    UIImage *resizedImage;

        resizedImage = [image imageScaledToFitSize:LARGE_THUMBNAIL_SIZE];

    CGRect largeThumbnailRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, resizedImage.size.width, resizedImage.size.height);

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(resizedImage.size, NO, 0);
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    //Image
    CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, resizedImage.size.height);
    CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);
    CGContextDrawImage(context, largeThumbnailRect, resizedImage.CGImage);

    //Border
    CGContextSaveGState(context);
    CGRect innerRect = rectForRectWithInset(largeThumbnailRect, 1.5);
    CGMutablePathRef borderPath = createRoundedRectForRect(innerRect, 0);
    CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, [[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor]);
    CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 3);
    CGContextAddPath(context, borderPath);
    CGContextStrokePath(context);
    CGContextRestoreGState(context);

    UIImage *thumbnail = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return thumbnail;
}

Answer 1

Try replacing the part where you load the second image:

UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:self.largeThumbnail];

with this one:

UIImage *jpegImage = [UIImage imageWithData:self.largeThumbnail];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:jpegImage.CGImage scale:originalImage.scale orientation:jpegImage.imageOrientation];

What happens here is that the image scale is not set, so you get double image dimensions.