Correct crop of CIGaussianBlur

Question

As I noticed when CIGaussianBlur is applied to image, image\'s corners gets blurred so that it looks like being smaller than original. So I figured out that I need to crop i

Answer 1

I saw some of the solutions and wanted to recommend a more modern one, based off some of the ideas shared here:

private lazy var coreImageContext = CIContext() // Re-use this.

func blurredImage(image: CIImage, radius: CGFloat) -> CGImage? {
    let blurredImage = image
        .clampedToExtent()
        .applyingFilter(
            "CIGaussianBlur",
            parameters: [
                kCIInputRadiusKey: radius,
            ]
        )
        .cropped(to: image.extent)

    return coreImageContext.createCGImage(blurredImage, from: blurredImage.extent)
}

If you need a UIImage afterward, you can of course get it like so:

let image = UIImage(cgImage: cgImage)

... For those wondering, the reason for returning a CGImage is (as noted in the Apple documentation):

Due to Core Image's coordinate system mismatch with UIKit, this filtering approach may yield unexpected results when displayed in a UIImageView with "contentMode". Be sure to back it with a CGImage so that it handles contentMode properly.

If you need a CIImage you could return that, but in this case if you're displaying the image, you'd probably want to be careful.