Resizing an image in an HTML5 canvas
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I'm trying to create a thumbnail image on the client side using javascript and a canvas element, but when I shrink the image down, it looks terrible. It looks as if it was downsized in photoshop with the resampling set to 'Nearest Neighbor' instead of Bicubic. I know its possible to get this to look right, because this site can do it just fine using a canvas as well. I've tried using the same code they do as shown in the "[Source]" link, but it still looks terrible. Is there something I'm missing, some setting that needs to be set or something?

EDIT:

I'm trying to resize a jpg. I have tried resizing the same jpg on the linked site and in photoshop, and it looks fine when downsized.

Here is the relevant code:

reader.onloadend = function(e)
{
    var img = new Image();
    var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
    var canvasCopy = document.createElement("canvas");
    var copyContext = canvasCopy.getContext("2d");

    img.onload = function()
    {
        var ratio = 1;

        if(img.width > maxWidth)
            ratio = maxWidth / img.width;
        else if(img.height > maxHeight)
            ratio = maxHeight / img.height;

        canvasCopy.width = img.width;
        canvasCopy.height = img.height;
        copyContext.drawImage(img, 0, 0);

        canvas.width = img.width * ratio;
        canvas.height = img.height * ratio;
        ctx.drawImage(canvasCopy, 0, 0, canvasCopy.width, canvasCopy.height, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
    };

    img.src = reader.result;
}

EDIT2:

Seems I was mistaken, the linked website wasn't doing any better of a job of downsizing the image. I tried the other methods suggested and none of them look any better. This is what the different methods resulted in:

Photoshop:

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Canvas:

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Image with image-rendering: optimizeQuality set and scaled with width/height:

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Image with image-rendering: optimizeQuality set and scaled with -moz-transform:

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Canvas resize on pixastic:

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I guess this means firefox isn't using bicubic sampling like its supposed to. I'll just have to wait until they actually add it.

EDIT3:

Original Image

Embower answered 20/2, 2010 at 20:58 Comment(11)
Can you post the code you're using to resize the image?Divertissement
Are you trying to resize a GIF image or similar image with a limited palette? Even in photoshop these images don't scale down well unless you convert them to RGB.Zashin
Can you post a copy of the original image?Divertissement
Resizing the image using javascript is a bit kludge - not only are you using client processing power to resize the image, you are doing it on every single page load. Why not just save a downscaled version from photoshop and serve it instead/in tandem with the original image?Thoughtout
Because I'm making an image uploader with the capability to resize and crop the images before uploading them.Embower
For the record, Firefox doesn't use bicubic resizing...it uses bilinear resizing.Columbic
This aint working for me. It just crops the image, that's all.Dropsical
Unfortunately, I can no longer open your image in pixastic due to the filesize limitation :(Daniel
Here is also a great solution for this problem: #18923380Nippers
Can this be used to draw any image on the screen to a canvas. I am going to have an array of images and then have a canvas and everytime a click a button it will show the next image until i get to the last image.Colorblind
you have an error, if you have width>max, but at same time height>max, but ur maxwidth ratio is less of your maxheight ratio, it is still too big :)Mythos
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So what do you do if all the browsers (actually, Chrome 5 gave me quite good one) won't give you good enough resampling quality? You implement them yourself then! Oh come on, we're entering the new age of Web 3.0, HTML5 compliant browsers, super optimized JIT javascript compilers, multi-core(†) machines, with tons of memory, what are you afraid of? Hey, there's the word java in javascript, so that should guarantee the performance, right? Behold, the thumbnail generating code:

// returns a function that calculates lanczos weight
function lanczosCreate(lobes) {
    return function(x) {
        if (x > lobes)
            return 0;
        x *= Math.PI;
        if (Math.abs(x) < 1e-16)
            return 1;
        var xx = x / lobes;
        return Math.sin(x) * Math.sin(xx) / x / xx;
    };
}

// elem: canvas element, img: image element, sx: scaled width, lobes: kernel radius
function thumbnailer(elem, img, sx, lobes) {
    this.canvas = elem;
    elem.width = img.width;
    elem.height = img.height;
    elem.style.display = "none";
    this.ctx = elem.getContext("2d");
    this.ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
    this.img = img;
    this.src = this.ctx.getImageData(0, 0, img.width, img.height);
    this.dest = {
        width : sx,
        height : Math.round(img.height * sx / img.width),
    };
    this.dest.data = new Array(this.dest.width * this.dest.height * 3);
    this.lanczos = lanczosCreate(lobes);
    this.ratio = img.width / sx;
    this.rcp_ratio = 2 / this.ratio;
    this.range2 = Math.ceil(this.ratio * lobes / 2);
    this.cacheLanc = {};
    this.center = {};
    this.icenter = {};
    setTimeout(this.process1, 0, this, 0);
}

thumbnailer.prototype.process1 = function(self, u) {
    self.center.x = (u + 0.5) * self.ratio;
    self.icenter.x = Math.floor(self.center.x);
    for (var v = 0; v < self.dest.height; v++) {
        self.center.y = (v + 0.5) * self.ratio;
        self.icenter.y = Math.floor(self.center.y);
        var a, r, g, b;
        a = r = g = b = 0;
        for (var i = self.icenter.x - self.range2; i <= self.icenter.x + self.range2; i++) {
            if (i < 0 || i >= self.src.width)
                continue;
            var f_x = Math.floor(1000 * Math.abs(i - self.center.x));
            if (!self.cacheLanc[f_x])
                self.cacheLanc[f_x] = {};
            for (var j = self.icenter.y - self.range2; j <= self.icenter.y + self.range2; j++) {
                if (j < 0 || j >= self.src.height)
                    continue;
                var f_y = Math.floor(1000 * Math.abs(j - self.center.y));
                if (self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y] == undefined)
                    self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y] = self.lanczos(Math.sqrt(Math.pow(f_x * self.rcp_ratio, 2)
                            + Math.pow(f_y * self.rcp_ratio, 2)) / 1000);
                weight = self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y];
                if (weight > 0) {
                    var idx = (j * self.src.width + i) * 4;
                    a += weight;
                    r += weight * self.src.data[idx];
                    g += weight * self.src.data[idx + 1];
                    b += weight * self.src.data[idx + 2];
                }
            }
        }
        var idx = (v * self.dest.width + u) * 3;
        self.dest.data[idx] = r / a;
        self.dest.data[idx + 1] = g / a;
        self.dest.data[idx + 2] = b / a;
    }

    if (++u < self.dest.width)
        setTimeout(self.process1, 0, self, u);
    else
        setTimeout(self.process2, 0, self);
};
thumbnailer.prototype.process2 = function(self) {
    self.canvas.width = self.dest.width;
    self.canvas.height = self.dest.height;
    self.ctx.drawImage(self.img, 0, 0, self.dest.width, self.dest.height);
    self.src = self.ctx.getImageData(0, 0, self.dest.width, self.dest.height);
    var idx, idx2;
    for (var i = 0; i < self.dest.width; i++) {
        for (var j = 0; j < self.dest.height; j++) {
            idx = (j * self.dest.width + i) * 3;
            idx2 = (j * self.dest.width + i) * 4;
            self.src.data[idx2] = self.dest.data[idx];
            self.src.data[idx2 + 1] = self.dest.data[idx + 1];
            self.src.data[idx2 + 2] = self.dest.data[idx + 2];
        }
    }
    self.ctx.putImageData(self.src, 0, 0);
    self.canvas.style.display = "block";
};

...with which you can produce results like these!

img717.imageshack.us/img717/8910/lanczos358.png

so anyway, here is a 'fixed' version of your example:

img.onload = function() {
    var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
    new thumbnailer(canvas, img, 188, 3); //this produces lanczos3
    // but feel free to raise it up to 8. Your client will appreciate
    // that the program makes full use of his machine.
    document.body.appendChild(canvas);
};

Now it's time to pit your best browsers out there and see which one will least likely increase your client's blood pressure!

Umm, where's my sarcasm tag?

(since many parts of the code is based on Anrieff Gallery Generator is it also covered under GPL2? I don't know)

actually due to limitation of javascript, multi-core is not supported.

Daniel answered 11/7, 2010 at 14:57 Comment(19)
I had actually tried implementing it myself, doing as you did, copying code from an open source image editor. Since I wasn't able to find any solid documentation on the algorithm I had a hard time optimizing it. In the end, mine was kind of slow (took a few seconds to resize the image). When I get the chance, I'll try yours out and see if its any faster. And I think webworkers make multi-core javascript possible now. I was going to try using them to speed it up, but I was having trouble figuring out how to make this into a multithreaded algorithmEmbower
Looks like you left a piece of the code out. lanczosCreate() seems to be missing. Could you edit your post to include that, so I can test your code out?Embower
Sorry, forgot that! I've edited the reply. It's not going to be fast anyways, bicubic should be faster. Not to mention the algorithm I used is not the usual 2-way resizing (which is line by line, horizontal then vertical), so it's a looot slower.Daniel
of course, you shouldn't use this code as it is in production app, because the thumbnailer object is never reused and thus will cause memory leak. Please think up of a proper destructor.Daniel
† Parallelism is coming to Javascript, and soon: smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/10/10/rivertrailEncroach
Great answer. Is there a way to use this code without maintaining the aspect ratio? For example, to enter a width AND a height, and have the image resampled (without cropping) to that size?Displode
Although this is better than just using drawImage, I find it way worse than using imagemagick to resize it (such as using "filter:sinc")...it looks very aliased (i.e. stairsteppy) or with higher values for lobes, blurry. Is there any way to improve upon this? I'm not so concerned about speed, since I wanted to use it for a mostly-one time process.Dislimn
This produces decent results, but takes 7.4 seconds for a 1.8 MP image in the latest version of Chrome...Mahala
I implemented this with amazingly more clarity. However the lanczos(3) made Chrome crash for images larger that 12mb. But lanczos(1) still made very, very good results, even with images 20+mb.Virilism
This is indeed a great example of cool stuff being done in Javascript, kudos sir, kudos! Question though: why the use of setTimeout? You're just executing the function converting context to an argument, when the proper context already exists to begin with. When I refactored to just execute this.process1() directly, and added lines to calculate execution time, I noticed that thumbnail generation happened twice as fast.Recovery
@Recovery I'm pretty sure there's a better way to do the code above. I never meant for this answer to be a serious (i.e. practical) reply to the question, but it got the upvotes anyway. BTW I used setTimeout to avoid browser lockup. IIRC I was using Firefox at that time, and maybe it froze the whole browser when I was testing it. Serious users can check out github.com/grantgalitz/JS-Image-Resizer or github.com/viliusle/Hermite-resize (ViliusL also has his answer here https://mcmap.net/q/98152/-resizing-an-image-in-an-html5-canvas)Daniel
@Daniel I tried your algorithm but it turns out that it takes to long when the image is >6MB.Nippers
@Daniel try pica and it's demo. It's better optimized for js JITs. Your code use dynamic 2-dimmentional object to cache filter function, and that will cause very big perfomance loss. Also, most browser support webworkers, and there is no need to yield code with setTimeout. As bonus, pica has 4 presets with different filters/windows to vary quality/speed.Dup
Having a tag for sarcasm should be standard in markup languages. <!sarcasm>Loved it</!sarcasm>Olivas
How methods like this manage to such high score?? The solution shown completely fails to account for the logarithmic scale used to store colour information. A RGB of 127,127,127 is one quarter the brightness of 255, 255, 255 not half. The down sampling in the solution results in a darkened image. Shame this is closed as there is a very simple and quick method to down size that produces even better results than the Photoshop (OP must have had the preferences set wrong) sample givenWantage
@Wantage This post is protected, not closed so feel free to post your solution. At the very least, you could post a comment with a link to a gist/jsfiddle.Tishtisha
Yes, it's possible to use webworkers. github.com/nodeca/pica use them for parallel processing.Norge
Hi man, thanks so much for this algo ey...Do you think you could update so that it ultimately return a Promise...I would like to be able to add a loader while the image compresses...Albany
@Wantage do you mind sharing the simple and quick method that's better than Photoshop?Mcclurg
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Fast image resize/resample algorithm using Hermite filter with JavaScript. Support transparency, gives good quality. Preview:

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Update: version 2.0 added on GitHub (faster, web workers + transferable objects). Finally i got it working!

Git: https://github.com/viliusle/Hermite-resize
Demo: http://viliusle.github.io/miniPaint/

/**
 * Hermite resize - fast image resize/resample using Hermite filter. 1 cpu version!
 * 
 * @param {HtmlElement} canvas
 * @param {int} width
 * @param {int} height
 * @param {boolean} resize_canvas if true, canvas will be resized. Optional.
 */
function resample_single(canvas, width, height, resize_canvas) {
    var width_source = canvas.width;
    var height_source = canvas.height;
    width = Math.round(width);
    height = Math.round(height);

    var ratio_w = width_source / width;
    var ratio_h = height_source / height;
    var ratio_w_half = Math.ceil(ratio_w / 2);
    var ratio_h_half = Math.ceil(ratio_h / 2);

    var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
    var img = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, width_source, height_source);
    var img2 = ctx.createImageData(width, height);
    var data = img.data;
    var data2 = img2.data;

    for (var j = 0; j < height; j++) {
        for (var i = 0; i < width; i++) {
            var x2 = (i + j * width) * 4;
            var weight = 0;
            var weights = 0;
            var weights_alpha = 0;
            var gx_r = 0;
            var gx_g = 0;
            var gx_b = 0;
            var gx_a = 0;
            var center_y = (j + 0.5) * ratio_h;
            var yy_start = Math.floor(j * ratio_h);
            var yy_stop = Math.ceil((j + 1) * ratio_h);
            for (var yy = yy_start; yy < yy_stop; yy++) {
                var dy = Math.abs(center_y - (yy + 0.5)) / ratio_h_half;
                var center_x = (i + 0.5) * ratio_w;
                var w0 = dy * dy; //pre-calc part of w
                var xx_start = Math.floor(i * ratio_w);
                var xx_stop = Math.ceil((i + 1) * ratio_w);
                for (var xx = xx_start; xx < xx_stop; xx++) {
                    var dx = Math.abs(center_x - (xx + 0.5)) / ratio_w_half;
                    var w = Math.sqrt(w0 + dx * dx);
                    if (w >= 1) {
                        //pixel too far
                        continue;
                    }
                    //hermite filter
                    weight = 2 * w * w * w - 3 * w * w + 1;
                    var pos_x = 4 * (xx + yy * width_source);
                    //alpha
                    gx_a += weight * data[pos_x + 3];
                    weights_alpha += weight;
                    //colors
                    if (data[pos_x + 3] < 255)
                        weight = weight * data[pos_x + 3] / 250;
                    gx_r += weight * data[pos_x];
                    gx_g += weight * data[pos_x + 1];
                    gx_b += weight * data[pos_x + 2];
                    weights += weight;
                }
            }
            data2[x2] = gx_r / weights;
            data2[x2 + 1] = gx_g / weights;
            data2[x2 + 2] = gx_b / weights;
            data2[x2 + 3] = gx_a / weights_alpha;
        }
    }
    //clear and resize canvas
    if (resize_canvas === true) {
        canvas.width = width;
        canvas.height = height;
    } else {
        ctx.clearRect(0, 0, width_source, height_source);
    }

    //draw
    ctx.putImageData(img2, 0, 0);
}
Intonation answered 19/8, 2013 at 18:33 Comment(7)
Maybe you can include links to your miniPaint demo and Github repo?Daniel
Will you also share the webworkers version as well? Probably due to setup overhead, it's slower for small images, but it could be useful for larger source images.Daniel
added demo, git links, also multi-core version. Btw i did not spend too much time on optimizing multicore version... Single version i believe is optimized well.Intonation
Huge difference and decent performance. Thank you very much! before and afterConfectionery
@Intonation Ah now I remembered why web workers didn't work so well. They didn't have shared memory before, and still doesn't have it now! Maybe someday when they manage to sort it out, your code will come to use (that, or maybe people use PNaCl instead)Daniel
I've run into some trouble with this resample_hermite function: When I try to shrink an image too much, it bends the image and changes the color. There is a jsfiddle which I've modified to demonstrate this. Original fiddle. Broken fiddle. It seems this algorithm fails when you try to shrink too much. Anyone know why?Nylon
@Nylon please use this updated example: jsfiddle.net/9g9Nv/96 Problem was not converting float to int.Intonation
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Try pica - that's a highly optimized resizer with selectable algorythms. See demo.

For example, original image from first post is resized in 120ms with Lanczos filter and 3px window or 60ms with Box filter and 0.5px window. For huge 17mb image 5000x3000px resize takes ~1s on desktop and 3s on mobile.

All resize principles were described very well in this thread, and pica does not add rocket science. But it's optimized very well for modern JIT-s, and is ready to use out of box (via npm or bower). Also, it use webworkers when available to avoid interface freezes.

I also plan to add unsharp mask support soon, because it's very useful after downscale.

Dup answered 24/9, 2014 at 11:4 Comment(0)
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I know this is an old thread but it might be useful for some people such as myself that months after are hitting this issue for the first time.

Here is some code that resizes the image every time you reload the image. I am aware this is not optimal at all, but I provide it as a proof of concept.

Also, sorry for using jQuery for simple selectors but I just feel too comfortable with the syntax.

$(document).on('ready', createImage);
$(window).on('resize', createImage);

var createImage = function(){
  var canvas = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
  canvas.width = window.innerWidth || $(window).width();
  canvas.height = window.innerHeight || $(window).height();
  var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
  img = new Image();
  img.addEventListener('load', function () {
    ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0, w, h);
  });
  img.src = 'http://www.ruinvalor.com/Telanor/images/original.jpg';
};
html, body{
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  background: #000;
}
canvas{
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  z-index: 0;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Canvas Resize</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <canvas id="myCanvas"></canvas>
  </body>
</html>

My createImage function is called once when the document is loaded and after that it is called every time the window receives a resize event.

I tested it in Chrome 6 and Firefox 3.6, both on the Mac. This "technique" eats processor as it if was ice cream in the summer, but it does the trick.

Hanafee answered 13/10, 2010 at 21:49 Comment(0)
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I've put up some algorithms to do image interpolation on html canvas pixel arrays that might be useful here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170104190425/http://jsperf.com:80/pixel-interpolation/2

These can be copy/pasted and can be used inside of web workers to resize images (or any other operation that requires interpolation - I'm using them to defish images at the moment).

I haven't added the lanczos stuff above, so feel free to add that as a comparison if you'd like.

Hitandmiss answered 26/10, 2011 at 20:29 Comment(0)
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This is a javascript function adapted from @Telanor's code. When passing a image base64 as first argument to the function, it returns the base64 of the resized image. maxWidth and maxHeight are optional.

function thumbnail(base64, maxWidth, maxHeight) {

  // Max size for thumbnail
  if(typeof(maxWidth) === 'undefined') var maxWidth = 500;
  if(typeof(maxHeight) === 'undefined') var maxHeight = 500;

  // Create and initialize two canvas
  var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
  var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
  var canvasCopy = document.createElement("canvas");
  var copyContext = canvasCopy.getContext("2d");

  // Create original image
  var img = new Image();
  img.src = base64;

  // Determine new ratio based on max size
  var ratio = 1;
  if(img.width > maxWidth)
    ratio = maxWidth / img.width;
  else if(img.height > maxHeight)
    ratio = maxHeight / img.height;

  // Draw original image in second canvas
  canvasCopy.width = img.width;
  canvasCopy.height = img.height;
  copyContext.drawImage(img, 0, 0);

  // Copy and resize second canvas to first canvas
  canvas.width = img.width * ratio;
  canvas.height = img.height * ratio;
  ctx.drawImage(canvasCopy, 0, 0, canvasCopy.width, canvasCopy.height, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);

  return canvas.toDataURL();

}
Pimpernel answered 13/2, 2013 at 3:12 Comment(1)
your approach is very fast but it produces a fuzzy image as you can see here: #18923380Nippers
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I'd highly suggest you check out this link and make sure it is set to true.

Controlling image scaling behavior

Introduced in Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 3.6 / Thunderbird 3.1 / Fennec 1.0)

Gecko 1.9.2 introduced the mozImageSmoothingEnabled property to the canvas element; if this Boolean value is false, images won't be smoothed when scaled. This property is true by default. view plainprint?

  1. cx.mozImageSmoothingEnabled = false;
Poop answered 13/7, 2010 at 17:2 Comment(0)
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If you're simply trying to resize an image, I'd recommend setting width and height of the image with CSS. Here's a quick example:

.small-image {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
}

Note that the height and width can also be set using JavaScript. Here's quick code sample:

var img = document.getElement("my-image");
img.style.width = 100 + "px";  // Make sure you add the "px" to the end,
img.style.height = 100 + "px"; // otherwise you'll confuse IE

Also, to ensure that the resized image looks good, add the following css rules to image selector:

As far as I can tell, all browsers except IE using an bicubic algorithm to resize images by default, so your resized images should look good in Firefox and Chrome.

If setting the css width and height doesn't work, you may want to play with a css transform:

If for whatever reason you need to use a canvas, please note that there are two ways an image can be resize: by resizing the canvas with css or by drawing the image at a smaller size.

See this question for more details.

Divertissement answered 22/2, 2010 at 15:34 Comment(2)
Neither resizing the canvas nor drawing the image at a smaller size resolves the problem (in Chrome), sadly.Habanera
Chrome 27 produces nice resized image, but you can't copy the result to a canvas; attempting to do so will copy the original image instead.Daniel
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i got this image by right clicking the canvas element in firefox and saving as.

alt text

var img = new Image();
img.onload = function () {
    console.debug(this.width,this.height);
    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas'), ctx;
    canvas.width = 188;
    canvas.height = 150;
    document.body.appendChild(canvas);
    ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
    ctx.drawImage(img,0,0,188,150);
};
img.src = 'original.jpg';

so anyway, here is a 'fixed' version of your example:

var img = new Image();
// added cause it wasnt defined
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
document.body.appendChild(canvas);

var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var canvasCopy = document.createElement("canvas");
// adding it to the body

document.body.appendChild(canvasCopy);

var copyContext = canvasCopy.getContext("2d");

img.onload = function()
{
        var ratio = 1;

        // defining cause it wasnt
        var maxWidth = 188,
            maxHeight = 150;

        if(img.width > maxWidth)
                ratio = maxWidth / img.width;
        else if(img.height > maxHeight)
                ratio = maxHeight / img.height;

        canvasCopy.width = img.width;
        canvasCopy.height = img.height;
        copyContext.drawImage(img, 0, 0);

        canvas.width = img.width * ratio;
        canvas.height = img.height * ratio;
        // the line to change
        // ctx.drawImage(canvasCopy, 0, 0, canvasCopy.width, canvasCopy.height, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
        // the method signature you are using is for slicing
        ctx.drawImage(canvasCopy, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
};

// changed for example
img.src = 'original.jpg';
Bailes answered 9/3, 2010 at 21:12 Comment(1)
I've tried doing what you did and its not coming out nice like yours. Unless I missed something, the only change you made was to use the scaling method signature instead of the slicing one, right? For some reason its not working for me.Embower
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For resizing to image with width less that original, i use:

    function resize2(i) {
      var cc = document.createElement("canvas");
      cc.width = i.width / 2;
      cc.height = i.height / 2;
      var ctx = cc.getContext("2d");
      ctx.drawImage(i, 0, 0, cc.width, cc.height);
      return cc;
    }
    var cc = img;
    while (cc.width > 64 * 2) {
      cc = resize2(cc);
    }
    // .. than drawImage(cc, .... )

and it works =).

Affusion answered 23/3, 2011 at 18:27 Comment(0)
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I have a feeling the module I wrote will produce similar results to photoshop, as it preserves color data by averaging them, not applying an algorithm. It's kind of slow, but to me it is the best, because it preserves all the color data.

https://github.com/danschumann/limby-resize/blob/master/lib/canvas_resize.js

It doesn't take the nearest neighbor and drop other pixels, or sample a group and take a random average. It takes the exact proportion each source pixel should output into the destination pixel. The average pixel color in the source will be the average pixel color in the destination, which these other formulas, I think they will not be.

an example of how to use is at the bottom of https://github.com/danschumann/limby-resize

UPDATE OCT 2018: These days my example is more academic than anything else. Webgl is pretty much 100%, so you'd be better off resizing with that to produce similar results, but faster. PICA.js does this, I believe. –

Dopp answered 30/7, 2014 at 20:3 Comment(0)
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The problem with some of this solutions is that they access directly the pixel data and loop through it to perform the downsampling. Depending on the size of the image this can be very resource intensive, and it would be better to use the browser's internal algorithms.

The drawImage() function is using a linear-interpolation, nearest-neighbor resampling method. That works well when you are not resizing down more than half the original size.

If you loop to only resize max one half at a time, the results would be quite good, and much faster than accessing pixel data.

This function downsample to half at a time until reaching the desired size:

  function resize_image( src, dst, type, quality ) {
     var tmp = new Image(),
         canvas, context, cW, cH;

     type = type || 'image/jpeg';
     quality = quality || 0.92;

     cW = src.naturalWidth;
     cH = src.naturalHeight;

     tmp.src = src.src;
     tmp.onload = function() {

        canvas = document.createElement( 'canvas' );

        cW /= 2;
        cH /= 2;

        if ( cW < src.width ) cW = src.width;
        if ( cH < src.height ) cH = src.height;

        canvas.width = cW;
        canvas.height = cH;
        context = canvas.getContext( '2d' );
        context.drawImage( tmp, 0, 0, cW, cH );

        dst.src = canvas.toDataURL( type, quality );

        if ( cW <= src.width || cH <= src.height )
           return;

        tmp.src = dst.src;
     }

  }
  // The images sent as parameters can be in the DOM or be image objects
  resize_image( $( '#original' )[0], $( '#smaller' )[0] );

Credits to this post

Jimmyjimsonweed answered 27/8, 2014 at 14:6 Comment(0)
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So something interesting that I found a while ago while working with canvas that might be helpful:

To resize the canvas control on its own, you need to use the height="" and width="" attributes (or canvas.width/canvas.height elements). If you use CSS to resize the canvas, it will actually stretch (i.e.: resize) the content of the canvas to fit the full canvas (rather than simply increasing or decreasing the area of the canvas.

It'd be worth a shot to try drawing the image into a canvas control with the height and width attributes set to the size of the image and then using CSS to resize the canvas to the size you're looking for. Perhaps this would use a different resizing algorithm.

It should also be noted that canvas has different effects in different browsers (and even different versions of different browsers). The algorithms and techniques used in the browsers is likely to change over time (especially with Firefox 4 and Chrome 6 coming out so soon, which will place heavy emphasis on canvas rendering performance).

In addition, you may want to give SVG a shot, too, as it likely uses a different algorithm as well.

Best of luck!

Columbic answered 6/7, 2010 at 7:39 Comment(2)
Setting the width or height of a canvas via the HTML attributes causes the canvas to be cleared, so there cant be any resizing done with that method. Also, SVG is meant for dealing with mathematical images. I need to be able to draw PNGs and such, so that wont help me out there.Embower
Setting the height & width of the canvas and resizing using CSS doesn't help, I've found (in Chrome). Even doing the resize using -webkit-transform rather than CSS width/height doesn't get the interpolation going.Habanera
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Fast and simple Javascript image resizer:

https://github.com/calvintwr/blitz-hermite-resize

const blitz = Blitz.create()

/* Promise */
blitz({
    source: DOM Image/DOM Canvas/jQuery/DataURL/File,
    width: 400,
    height: 600
}).then(output => {
    // handle output
})catch(error => {
    // handle error
})

/* Await */
let resized = await blizt({...})

/* Old school callback */
const blitz = Blitz.create('callback')
blitz({...}, function(output) {
    // run your callback.
})

History

This is really after many rounds of research, reading and trying.

The resizer algorithm uses @ViliusL's Hermite script (Hermite resizer is really the fastest and gives reasonably good output). Extended with features you need.

Forks 1 worker to do the resizing so that it doesn't freeze your browser when resizing, unlike all other JS resizers out there.

Kampmann answered 10/12, 2015 at 17:16 Comment(0)
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I converted @syockit's answer as well as the step-down approach into a reusable Angular service for anyone who's interested: https://gist.github.com/fisch0920/37bac5e741eaec60e983

I included both solutions because they both have their own pros / cons. The lanczos convolution approach is higher quality at the cost of being slower, whereas the step-wise downscaling approach produces reasonably antialiased results and is significantly faster.

Example usage:

angular.module('demo').controller('ExampleCtrl', function (imageService) {
  // EXAMPLE USAGE
  // NOTE: it's bad practice to access the DOM inside a controller, 
  // but this is just to show the example usage.

  // resize by lanczos-sinc filter
  imageService.resize($('#myimg')[0], 256, 256)
    .then(function (resizedImage) {
      // do something with resized image
    })

  // resize by stepping down image size in increments of 2x
  imageService.resizeStep($('#myimg')[0], 256, 256)
    .then(function (resizedImage) {
      // do something with resized image
    })
})
Durman answered 16/9, 2014 at 23:17 Comment(0)
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0

Thanks @syockit for an awesome answer. however, I had to reformat a little as follows to make it work. Perhaps due to DOM scanning issues:

$(document).ready(function () {

$('img').on("load", clickA);
function clickA() {
    var img = this;
    var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
    new thumbnailer(canvas, img, 50, 3);
    document.body.appendChild(canvas);
}

function thumbnailer(elem, img, sx, lobes) {
    this.canvas = elem;
    elem.width = img.width;
    elem.height = img.height;
    elem.style.display = "none";
    this.ctx = elem.getContext("2d");
    this.ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
    this.img = img;
    this.src = this.ctx.getImageData(0, 0, img.width, img.height);
    this.dest = {
        width: sx,
        height: Math.round(img.height * sx / img.width)
    };
    this.dest.data = new Array(this.dest.width * this.dest.height * 3);
    this.lanczos = lanczosCreate(lobes);
    this.ratio = img.width / sx;
    this.rcp_ratio = 2 / this.ratio;
    this.range2 = Math.ceil(this.ratio * lobes / 2);
    this.cacheLanc = {};
    this.center = {};
    this.icenter = {};
    setTimeout(process1, 0, this, 0);
}

//returns a function that calculates lanczos weight
function lanczosCreate(lobes) {
    return function (x) {
        if (x > lobes)
            return 0;
        x *= Math.PI;
        if (Math.abs(x) < 1e-16)
            return 1
        var xx = x / lobes;
        return Math.sin(x) * Math.sin(xx) / x / xx;
    }
}

process1 = function (self, u) {
    self.center.x = (u + 0.5) * self.ratio;
    self.icenter.x = Math.floor(self.center.x);
    for (var v = 0; v < self.dest.height; v++) {
        self.center.y = (v + 0.5) * self.ratio;
        self.icenter.y = Math.floor(self.center.y);
        var a, r, g, b;
        a = r = g = b = 0;
        for (var i = self.icenter.x - self.range2; i <= self.icenter.x + self.range2; i++) {
            if (i < 0 || i >= self.src.width)
                continue;
            var f_x = Math.floor(1000 * Math.abs(i - self.center.x));
            if (!self.cacheLanc[f_x])
                self.cacheLanc[f_x] = {};
            for (var j = self.icenter.y - self.range2; j <= self.icenter.y + self.range2; j++) {
                if (j < 0 || j >= self.src.height)
                    continue;
                var f_y = Math.floor(1000 * Math.abs(j - self.center.y));
                if (self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y] == undefined)
                    self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y] = self.lanczos(Math.sqrt(Math.pow(f_x * self.rcp_ratio, 2) + Math.pow(f_y * self.rcp_ratio, 2)) / 1000);
                weight = self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y];
                if (weight > 0) {
                    var idx = (j * self.src.width + i) * 4;
                    a += weight;
                    r += weight * self.src.data[idx];
                    g += weight * self.src.data[idx + 1];
                    b += weight * self.src.data[idx + 2];
                }
            }
        }
        var idx = (v * self.dest.width + u) * 3;
        self.dest.data[idx] = r / a;
        self.dest.data[idx + 1] = g / a;
        self.dest.data[idx + 2] = b / a;
    }

    if (++u < self.dest.width)
        setTimeout(process1, 0, self, u);
    else
        setTimeout(process2, 0, self);
};

process2 = function (self) {
    self.canvas.width = self.dest.width;
    self.canvas.height = self.dest.height;
    self.ctx.drawImage(self.img, 0, 0);
    self.src = self.ctx.getImageData(0, 0, self.dest.width, self.dest.height);
    var idx, idx2;
    for (var i = 0; i < self.dest.width; i++) {
        for (var j = 0; j < self.dest.height; j++) {
            idx = (j * self.dest.width + i) * 3;
            idx2 = (j * self.dest.width + i) * 4;
            self.src.data[idx2] = self.dest.data[idx];
            self.src.data[idx2 + 1] = self.dest.data[idx + 1];
            self.src.data[idx2 + 2] = self.dest.data[idx + 2];
        }
    }
    self.ctx.putImageData(self.src, 0, 0);
    self.canvas.style.display = "block";
}
});
Epididymis answered 14/8, 2013 at 0:51 Comment(0)
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I wanted some well defined functions out of answers here so ended up with these which am hoping would be useful for others also,

function getImageFromLink(link) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve) {
        var image = new Image();
        image.onload = function () { resolve(image); };
        image.src = link;
    });
}

function resizeImageToBlob(image, width, height, mime) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve) {
        var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
        canvas.width = width;
        canvas.height = height;
        canvas.getContext('2d').drawImage(image, 0, 0, width, height);
        return canvas.toBlob(resolve, mime);
    });
}

getImageFromLink(location.href).then(function (image) {
    // calculate these based on the original size
    var width = image.width / 4;
    var height = image.height / 4;
    return resizeImageToBlob(image, width, height, 'image/jpeg');
}).then(function (blob) {
    // Do something with the result Blob object
    document.querySelector('img').src = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
});

Just for the sake of testing this run it on a image opened in a tab.

Pellitory answered 13/3, 2021 at 14:22 Comment(0)
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I just ran a page of side by sides comparisons and unless something has changed recently, I could see no better downsizing (scaling) using canvas vs. simple css. I tested in FF6 Mac OSX 10.7. Still slightly soft vs. the original.

I did however stumble upon something that did make a huge difference and that was using image filters in browsers that support canvas. You can actually manipulate images much like you can in Photoshop with blur, sharpen, saturation, ripple, grayscale, etc.

I then found an awesome jQuery plug-in which makes application of these filters a snap: http://codecanyon.net/item/jsmanipulate-jquery-image-manipulation-plugin/428234

I simply apply the sharpen filter right after resizing the image which should give you the desired effect. I didn't even have to use a canvas element.

Persimmon answered 24/8, 2011 at 19:40 Comment(0)
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Looking for another great simple solution?

var img=document.createElement('img');
img.src=canvas.toDataURL();
$(img).css("background", backgroundColor);
$(img).width(settings.width);
$(img).height(settings.height);

This solution will use the resize algorith of browser! :)

Gamache answered 20/8, 2014 at 5:11 Comment(2)
The question is about downsampling the image, not just resizing it.Varietal
[...] I'm trying to resize a jpg. I have tried resizing the same jpg on the linked site and in photoshop, and it looks fine when downsized.[...] why you cannot use the <img> Jesus Carrera?Gamache

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