UIImage masking problems iOS 7

Question

I have heavily borrowed (standard) code which applies a grayscale UIImage mask to a UIImage.

- (void) maskImage:(UIImage *)image withMask:(UIImage *)maskImage {         


        

Answer 1

I found this issue on my app too and I solve it by following code.

- (UIImage*)image:(UIImage*)image withMask:(UIImage*)maskImage
{
    CGImageRef maskRef = maskImage.CGImage;
    CGImageRef mask = CGImageMaskCreate(CGImageGetWidth(maskRef),
                                    CGImageGetHeight(maskRef),
                                    CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(maskRef),
                                    CGImageGetBitsPerPixel(maskRef),
                                    CGImageGetBytesPerRow(maskRef),
                                    CGImageGetDataProvider(maskRef), NULL, false);

    CGImageRef maskedImageRef = CGImageCreateWithMask([handledImage CGImage], mask);
    CGImageRelease(mask);

    // Under iOS 7, UIImage with mask no longer applied mask when saving it.
    // We draw the image to context and obtain image from context to get the image applied mask
    CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(nil,
                                                 CGImageGetWidth(maskedImageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetHeight(maskedImageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(maskedImageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetBytesPerRow(maskedImageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetColorSpace(maskedImageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetBitmapInfo(maskedImageRef));

    CGRect imageRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, CGImageGetWidth(maskedImageRef), CGImageGetHeight(maskedImageRef));
    CGContextDrawImage(context, imageRect, maskedImageRef);
    CGImageRef imageRef = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);
    UIImage *maskedImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef];

    CFRelease(imageRef);
    CGContextRelease(context);
    CGImageRelease(maskedImageRef);

    return maskedImage;
}