Making deep copy of UIImage

Question

My class contains an UIImage property which I want to enforce as a \'copy\' property by any external clients accessing it. But, when I try to do a copy in my custom setter,

Answer 1

 CGImageRef newCgIm = CGImageCreateCopy(oldImage.CGImage);
 UIImage *newImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:newCgIm scale:oldImage.scale 
                     orientation:oldImage.imageOrientation];