I want to load images from UIImagePickerController, then save the selected photo to my app's document directory.
UIImage *image = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];
NSData *data1 = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image);
NSString *fileName = "1.png";
NSString *path = //get Document path, then add fileName
BOOL succ = [data1 writeToFile:path atomically:YES];
but after I save the image to my document, I found that, the image was rotated 90 degree, then I change the method UIImagePNGRepresentation to UIImageJPEGRepresentation, this time it's fine, anyone know what's the problem?
I had the same problem and just figured out the reason: starting with iOS 4.0 when the camera takes a photo it does not rotate it before saving, it simply sets a rotation flag in the EXIF data of the JPEG.
If you save a UIImage as a JPEG, it will set the rotation flag.
PNGs do not support a rotation flag, so if you save a UIImage as a PNG, it will be rotated incorrectly and not have a flag set to fix it. So if you want PNGs you must rotate them yourself.
I would call this a bug in the PNG saving function but that's just an opinion (they should at least warn you about this).