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PhotoEditor SDK supports saving photos to a Base64 encoded string.

For the sake of this example, we create a photo from a URL and present the photo editor in a modal. Note, that we have to make the current class the delegate of the PhotoEditViewController in order to handle export and cancellation there.

Implementing the Photo Export Delegate Method#

When a photo export is successful the method photoEditViewControllerDidFinish is invoked on the delegate class and a PhotoEditorResult object passed as argument. The result.output.data attribute will contain the output image data, including all EXIF information in the format specified in your editor's configuration.

If no modifications have been made to the photo and the Photo object that was passed to the editor's initializer was created using Photo(data:) or Photo(url:) we will not process the photo at all and simply forward it to this delegate method. If the Photo object that was passed to the editor's initializer was created using Photo(image:), it will be processed and returned in the format specified in your editor's configuration.

If you want to ensure that the original photo is always reencoded, even if no modifications have been made to it, you can set PhotoEditViewControllerOptions.forceExport to true, in which case result.output.data will always point to a newly generated photo.

Convert to Base64 String#

The result object contains the photo as data property of type Data which can be converted to a Base64 encoded by invoking base64EncodedString on it.