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Resize your pictures for your phone or pocket pc

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I have many digital pictures, and I'd like to put some of my favorites on my SmartPhone. However the files are much higher resolution than the device's display. This means the files take a lot more memory on the phone, and they take longer to process. I wrote some code to resize the images automatically. The code below shows a form with a resized picture on it, and you can vary the Quality of the JPG saved image by moving a TrackBar control. The form's caption shows the Quality selected, and the resulting file size. It's amazing how small you can make the file without losing too much quality.

Start Visual Studio (2005 or 2008), choose File->New->Project->Windows->Windows Forms Application. Choose View->Code and paste in the VB code below. Run it and give it a digital picture to play with.

The code creates oBitmap as an Image object, representing the original image. oBmpOut is an Image object, with the desired target size. A Graphics object is created from oBmpOut and oBitmap is drawn onto that Graphics object. Then the JPG Image encoder is found, and the JPG is saved with the specified Quality.

Below is sample code in both VB.Net and Fox that shows a particular JPG resampled to 320 x 240 resolution, with a TrackBar that allows you to change the JPG quality.

See also:

Recompress your digital pictures to save space

Various ways to display multiple photographs

Start of Fox code

PUBLIC ox as JpgForm

ox=CREATEOBJECT("JpgForm")

ox.visible=1

DEFINE CLASS JpgForm as Form

          width=640

          height=480

          left=200

          allowoutput=.f.

          ADD OBJECT oPict as image WITH top = 20,width=320,height=240,stretch=2

          ADD OBJECT oTrackbar as cTrackbar WITH width=300,smallchange=2

          PROCEDURE init

                   SET CLASSLIB TO HOME()+"ffc\_gdiplus"

                   SET COMPATIBLE on && so FSIZE returns FileSize

                   this.refresh

          PROCEDURE refresh

                   this.drawit()

          PROCEDURE drawit

                   cFile="d:\kids.jpg"

                   cOutputFile="d:\thumb.jpg"

                   LOCAL oGraphics as gpGraphics OF _gdiplus.vcx

                   LOCAL oImage as gpImage OF _gdiplus.vcx

                   LOCAL oBmpOut as gpBitmap OF _gdiplus.vcx

                   oGraphics=CREATEOBJECT("gpGraphics")

                   oImage=CREATEOBJECT("gpImage",cFile)

                   oBmpOut=CREATEOBJECT("gpBitmap",this.oPict.width,this.oPict.height)

                   oGraphics.CreateFromImage(oBmpOut)

                   oGraphics.DrawImageScaled(oImage,0,0,oBmpOut.ImageWidth,oBmpOut.ImageHeight)

                   oBmpOut.SaveToFile(cOutputFile,"image/jpeg","quality="+TRANSFORM(this.oTrackbar.value))

                   this.oPict.picture=cOutputFile

                   this.Caption = TRANSFORM(this.oTrackbar.value)+" Size="+TRANSFORM(FSIZE(cOutputFile))

ENDDEFINE

DEFINE CLASS cTrackbar as olecontrol

          oleclass="mscomctllib.slider.2"

          PROCEDURE init

                   this.max=100

                   this.smallchange=2

                   this.largechange=10

          PROCEDURE change

                   thisform.drawit

ENDDEFINE

End of Fox code

Start of VB code:

Public Class Form1

    Dim oPict As New PictureBox

    Dim WithEvents oTrackBar As New TrackBar

    Dim cFile As String = "d:\kids.jpg"

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        Me.Width = 640

        Me.Height = 480

        oPict.Top = 30

        oPict.Width = 640

        oPict.Height = 480

        oPict.Visible = 1

        Dim OFD As New OpenFileDialog

        OFD.FileName = cFile

        If OFD.ShowDialog <> Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then

            End

        End If

        cFile = OFD.FileName

        Me.Controls.Add(oPict)

        oTrackBar.Width = 300

        oTrackBar.Height = 20

        oTrackBar.Visible = 1

        oTrackBar.Minimum = 0

        oTrackBar.Maximum = 100

        oTrackBar.SmallChange = 5

        oTrackBar.Value = 50

        Me.Controls.Add(oTrackBar)

    End Sub

    Sub TrackBar_Change(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles oTrackBar.ValueChanged

        CalcPict()

    End Sub

    Sub CalcPict()

        Dim oBitmap As Bitmap = New Bitmap(cFile)

        Dim oBmpOut As Bitmap = New Bitmap(Me.oPict.Width, Me.oPict.Height)

        Dim oG As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(oBmpOut)

        oG.DrawImage(oBitmap, 0, 0, oBmpOut.Width, oBmpOut.Height)

        Dim encParam As New Imaging.EncoderParameters(1)

        encParam.Param(0) = New Imaging.EncoderParameter(Imaging.Encoder.Quality, oTrackBar.Value)

        Dim codecs As Imaging.ImageCodecInfo() = Imaging.ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders

        Dim JpgCodec As Imaging.ImageCodecInfo = Nothing

        For Each codec As Imaging.ImageCodecInfo In codecs

            If codec.MimeType = "image/jpeg" Then

                JpgCodec = codec

                Exit For

            End If

        Next

        Dim istream As New IO.MemoryStream

        oBmpOut.Save(istream, JpgCodec, encParam)

        oPict.Image = New Bitmap(istream)

        Me.Text = oTrackBar.Value.ToString + " Size=" + istream.Length.ToString

    End Sub

End Class

End of VB code:

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