Create new UIImage by adding shadow to existing UIImage

Question

I\'ve taken a look at this question: UIImage Shadow Trouble

But the accepted answer didn\'t work for me.

What I\'m trying to do is take a UIImage and add a s

Answer 1

Whilst trying to use some of the other examples here, I noticed that they seem to either hard-code the offset & blur, or do not correctly take them into account when sizing and positioning the output.

The following code solves these issues (it's based on the original work by Igor Kulagin):

extension UIImage {
    /// Returns a new image with the specified shadow properties.
    /// This will increase the size of the image to fit the shadow and the original image.
    func withShadow(blur: CGFloat = 6, offset: CGSize = .zero, color: UIColor = UIColor(white: 0, alpha: 0.8)) -> UIImage {

        let shadowRect = CGRect(
            x: offset.width - blur,
            y: offset.height - blur,
            width: size.width + blur * 2,
            height: size.height + blur * 2
        )
        
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(
            CGSize(
                width: max(shadowRect.maxX, size.width) - min(shadowRect.minX, 0),
                height: max(shadowRect.maxY, size.height) - min(shadowRect.minY, 0)
            ),
            false, 0
        )
        
        let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!

        context.setShadow(
            offset: offset,
            blur: blur,
            color: color.cgColor
        )
        
        draw(
            in: CGRect(
                x: max(0, -shadowRect.origin.x),
                y: max(0, -shadowRect.origin.y),
                width: size.width,
                height: size.height
            )
        )
        let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()!
        
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
        return image
    }
}