How to scale a BufferedImage

Solution 1:

AffineTransformOp offers the additional flexibility of choosing the interpolation type.

BufferedImage before = getBufferedImage(encoded);
int w = before.getWidth();
int h = before.getHeight();
BufferedImage after = new BufferedImage(w, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();
at.scale(2.0, 2.0);
AffineTransformOp scaleOp = 
   new AffineTransformOp(at, AffineTransformOp.TYPE_BILINEAR);
after = scaleOp.filter(before, after);

The fragment shown illustrates resampling, not cropping; this related answer addresses the issue; some related examples are examined here.

Solution 2:

Unfortunately the performance of getScaledInstance() is very poor if not problematic.

The alternative approach is to create a new BufferedImage and and draw a scaled version of the original on the new one.

BufferedImage resized = new BufferedImage(newWidth, newHeight, original.getType());
Graphics2D g = resized.createGraphics();
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,
    RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
g.drawImage(original, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight, 0, 0, original.getWidth(),
    original.getHeight(), null);
g.dispose();

newWidth,newHeight indicate the new BufferedImage size and have to be properly calculated. In case of factor scaling:

int newWidth = new Double(original.getWidth() * widthFactor).intValue();
int newHeight = new Double(original.getHeight() * heightFactor).intValue();

EDIT: Found the article illustrating the performance issue: The Perils of Image.getScaledInstance()

Solution 3:

Using imgscalr – Java Image Scaling Library:

BufferedImage image =
     Scalr.resize(originalImage, Scalr.Method.BALANCED, newWidth, newHeight);

This is fast enough for me.

Solution 4:

As @Bozho says, you probably want to use getScaledInstance.

To understand how grph.scale(2.0, 2.0) works however, you could have a look at this code:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.*;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;


class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        final int SCALE = 2;

        Image img = new ImageIcon("duke.png").getImage();

        BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(SCALE * img.getWidth(null),
                                             SCALE * img.getHeight(null),
                                             BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);

        Graphics2D grph = (Graphics2D) bi.getGraphics();
        grph.scale(SCALE, SCALE);

        // everything drawn with grph from now on will get scaled.

        grph.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);
        grph.dispose();

        ImageIO.write(bi, "png", new File("duke_double_size.png"));
    }
}

Given duke.png:

it produces duke_double_size.png: