UIImage masking problems iOS 7

Question

I have heavily borrowed (standard) code which applies a grayscale UIImage mask to a UIImage.

- (void) maskImage:(UIImage *)image withMask:(UIImage *)maskImage {         


        

Answer 1

The above code gives a good idea of how to approach the problem(drawing over a context) but did not work for me. The code below works both on IOS 7 and previous versions(IOS 6.x).

+(UIImage*)maskImageExt:(UIImage *)image withMask:(UIImage *)maskImage {
    CGImageRef maskRef = maskImage.CGImage;
    CGImageRef imageRef = image.CGImage;

    CGImageRef mask = CGImageMaskCreate(CGImageGetWidth(maskRef),
                                        CGImageGetHeight(maskRef),
                                        CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(maskRef),
                                        CGImageGetBitsPerPixel(maskRef),
                                        CGImageGetBytesPerRow(maskRef),
                                        CGImageGetDataProvider(maskRef), NULL, true);

    CGImageRef maskImageRef = CGImageCreateWithMask([image CGImage], mask);

    CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(nil,
                                                 CGImageGetWidth(imageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetHeight(imageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(imageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetBytesPerRow(imageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetColorSpace(imageRef),
                                                 CGImageGetBitmapInfo(imageRef));
    CGRect imageRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, CGImageGetWidth(imageRef), CGImageGetHeight(imageRef));
    CGContextDrawImage(context, imageRect, maskImageRef);
    CGImageRef maskedImageRef = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);
    UIImage *maskedImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:maskedImageRef];

    CGImageRelease(mask);
    CGContextRelease(context);
    CGImageRelease(maskedImageRef);

    return maskedImage;
}