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

See below two implementations for Xamarin (C#).

1) Works for iOS 6

public static UIImage Blur(UIImage image)
{   
    using(var blur = new CIGaussianBlur())
    {
        blur.Image = new CIImage(image);
        blur.Radius = 6.5f;

        using(CIImage output = blur.OutputImage)
        using(CIContext context = CIContext.FromOptions(null))
        using(CGImage cgimage = context.CreateCGImage (output, new RectangleF(0, 0, image.Size.Width, image.Size.Height)))
        {
            return UIImage.FromImage(cgimage);
        }
    }
}

2) Implementation for iOS 7

Using the way shown above isn't working properly on iOS 7 anymore (at least at the moment with Xamarin 7.0.1). So I decided to add cropping another way (measures may depend on the blur radius).

private static UIImage BlurImage(UIImage image)
{   
    using(var blur = new CIGaussianBlur())
    {
        blur.Image = new CIImage(image);
        blur.Radius = 6.5f;

        using(CIImage output = blur.OutputImage)
        using(CIContext context = CIContext.FromOptions(null))
        using(CGImage cgimage = context.CreateCGImage (output, new RectangleF(0, 0, image.Size.Width, image.Size.Height)))
        {
            return UIImage.FromImage(Crop(CIImage.FromCGImage(cgimage), image.Size.Width, image.Size.Height));
        }
    }
}

private static CIImage Crop(CIImage image, float width, float height)
{
    var crop = new CICrop
    { 
        Image = image,
        Rectangle = new CIVector(10, 10, width - 20, height - 20) 
    };

    return crop.OutputImage;   
}