Hopefully this helps others - A nice write-up on saving/loading image data: http://blog.teliaz.com/2010/capture-saveloadremove-image-in-documents-directory This works great to save the ENTIRE image when using code similar to code below: // convert UIImageView to UIImage UIImage *myZoomedImage = imageview.image //<- entire image //save to documents directory [self saveImage: myZoomedImage: @"myUIImageName"]; ================================================= I have temporarily added it to AK_GalleryPhotoView.m scrollViewDidEndZooming until I have an action button. Now for my question How would I CREATE A UIIMAGE that references the existing ZOOMED area displayed in the UIImageView rather than the size of the original image? replace "imageview.image" with... (some code referencing Current Context) Thanks

A guess before getting out of bed this morning ... I would imagine the Frame and maskToBounds would be factors in the solution.

Thanks- have taken the hints and searched online and tried various approaches. Each one felt like reinventing the wheel, as Kittsy already has equivalent methods in the plugin. Most info out there is on creating the zoomed view. Three strikes today so... Time to push away from the keyboard and get some Christmas lights on the house ;)

This is a useful link for others interested in scaling images: http://www.icab.de/blog/2010/10/01/scaling-images-and-creating-thumbnails-from-uiviews/ Think I have found the answer. I should have been looking at Image Cropping from a UIScrollView... https://codefuel.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/image-cropping-from-a-uiscrollview/ Will try tonight :)