Image Resizing in Java to reduce image size

Question

I have an Image of say dimensions 800x800 which has a size of 170 kb. I want to resize this image to say 600x600. After resizing i want the image size to be reduced. How can i do this?

Answer 1

You don't need a full blown Image processing library for simply resizing an image.

The recommended approach is by using progressive bilinear scaling, like so (feel free to use this method as is in your code):

public BufferedImage scale(BufferedImage img, int targetWidth, int targetHeight) {

    int type = (img.getTransparency() == Transparency.OPAQUE) ? BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB : BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB;
    BufferedImage ret = img;
    BufferedImage scratchImage = null;
    Graphics2D g2 = null;

    int w = img.getWidth();
    int h = img.getHeight();

    int prevW = w;
    int prevH = h;

    do {
        if (w > targetWidth) {
            w /= 2;
            w = (w < targetWidth) ? targetWidth : w;
        }

        if (h > targetHeight) {
            h /= 2;
            h = (h < targetHeight) ? targetHeight : h;
        }

        if (scratchImage == null) {
            scratchImage = new BufferedImage(w, h, type);
            g2 = scratchImage.createGraphics();
        }

        g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,
                RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
        g2.drawImage(ret, 0, 0, w, h, 0, 0, prevW, prevH, null);

        prevW = w;
        prevH = h;
        ret = scratchImage;
    } while (w != targetWidth || h != targetHeight);

    if (g2 != null) {
        g2.dispose();
    }

    if (targetWidth != ret.getWidth() || targetHeight != ret.getHeight()) {
        scratchImage = new BufferedImage(targetWidth, targetHeight, type);
        g2 = scratchImage.createGraphics();
        g2.drawImage(ret, 0, 0, null);
        g2.dispose();
        ret = scratchImage;
    }

    return ret;

}

Code modified and cleaned from the original at Filthy Rich Clients.

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Based on your comment, you can reduce quality and encode JPEG bytes like so:

image is the BufferedImage.

ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageWriter writer = (ImageWriter) ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("jpeg").next();

ImageWriteParam param = writer.getDefaultWriteParam();
param.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
param.setCompressionQuality(0.2f); // Change this, float between 0.0 and 1.0

writer.setOutput(ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(os));
writer.write(null, new IIOImage(image, null, null), param);
writer.dispose();

Now, since os is a ByteArrayOutputStream, you can Base64 encode it.

String base64 = Base64.encode(os.toByteArray());