How to merge two images?

[johnqh]

There must be some easy way with the blending mode and core graphics, but I haven't been able to get it to work correctly.

How do I merge two images 50-50?

[DenVog]

Originally Posted by johnqh

There must be some easy way with the blending mode and core graphics, but I haven't been able to get it to work correctly.

How do I merge two images 50-50?

Not sure if I completely understand what you're trying to do, but can't you just set their alpha to .5 and display one on top of the other?

[johnqh]

Originally Posted by DenVog

Not sure if I completely understand what you're trying to do, but can't you just set their alpha to .5 and display one on top of the other?

I have no problem with displaying. However, I want a new UIImage from two.

I have played with the 0.5 alpha but it didn't come out right. It looks the 2nd image is more obvious.

[Scuba]

Well, you definitely don't want the bottom one % 0.5 - just the top one. If you can get it working that way it is much easier. Otherwise you have to draw the images manually to a context.

[johnqh]

Originally Posted by Scuba

Well, you definitely don't want the bottom one % 0.5 - just the top one. If you can get it working that way it is much easier. Otherwise you have to draw the images manually to a context.

I am using context and drawing 1st one with alpha of 1, 2nd image with alpha of 0.5. No use, it doesn't come out correctly. The 1st image looks too light.

I am sure someone here have done similar things on Mac OSX. Please share. Exactly what kind of blending mode and alpha should I use?

[General]

Originally Posted by johnqh

I am using context and drawing 1st one with alpha of 1, 2nd image with alpha of 0.5. No use, it doesn't come out correctly. The 1st image looks too light.

I am sure someone here have done similar things on Mac OSX. Please share. Exactly what kind of blending mode and alpha should I use?

have you tried drawing one image over another image with Opaque set to NO?

We accidentally did this once when we wanted to remove the old image and it drew on top of the old one. Not really sure how it came out because they were similar images and there were only slight differences that showed up where we could tell they were overlapping, but you might want to try that instead of changing the alpha setting.

Not really sure how to duplicate this since it was a bug and we corrected it, but we basically loaded image views into an array and then we used the array to draw the images on the screen and we accidentally overlapped the images instead of removing the old ones.

[HardyMacia]

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(firstImage.size);
[firstImage drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(0,0)];
[secondImage drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(0,0)];
	
UIImage *newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

[vikysaran]

Originally Posted by HardyMacia

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(firstImage.size);
[firstImage drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(0,0)];
[secondImage drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(0,0)];
	
UIImage *newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

this will capture current screen into 'newImage' from co-ordinates (0, 0)