How do you change UIButton image alpha on disabled state?

Question

I have a UIButton with an image and on its disabled state, this image should have .3 alpha.

UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
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Answer 1

A swift 4 version of Steph Sharp's answer:

extension UIImage {

    func translucentImageWithAlpha(alpha: CGFloat) -> UIImage {

        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(self.size, false, 0.0)
        let bounds = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.size.width, height: self.size.height)
        self.draw(in: bounds, blendMode: .screen, alpha: alpha)

        let translucentImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        return translucentImage!
    }
}

Which you can use like this:

if let image = self.image(for: .normal) {
    self.setImage(image.translucentImageWithAlpha(alpha: 0.3), for: .disabled)
}