Glowing UIImageView?

[samurle]

How to make a UIImageView glow for a second?

Specifically, how to make all the edges of the UIImageView glow evenly?

This is not a button. It's just a rectangle with a custom image on it.

[baja_yu]

Create the glow effect in Photoshop/Gimp etc, and switch the images.

[pawanshakya]

You can add images with Glow effect & than apply UIView animation as per your requirement for making the effect smooth.

[samurle]

Originally Posted by baja_yu

Create the glow effect in Photoshop/Gimp etc, and switch the images.

The glow should be animated (e.g. fade out), so I don't see how switching to a static image would help.

Let me explain the effect I'm trying to create.

I'm trying to create an outer glow around the UIImageView. The glow doesn't touch or obscure the image.
The glow extends out from the edges of the UIImageView, so it is much larger than the UIImageView.

And, I don't know how to layer the glow on top of the image, because the image itself isn't
a subview. I create it like so:

UIImageView *view = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:myImage];

How to add an outer-edge glow image to this, which would be much larger than the original image?

[baja_yu]

As pawanshakya suggested you can use UIView animations to fade it in. I was just suggesting the basic principle. If you know ahead of time the dimensions of the image you can create a sort of frame with the glow effect, then superimpose that frame image on your image, and fade it into view. It would appear as if the image below is glowing. That way you wont have to create a glow version of all your images, just one frame image and use it on all images.

[samurle]

Originally Posted by baja_yu

As pawanshakya suggested you can use UIView animations to fade it in. I was just suggesting the basic principle. If you know ahead of time the dimensions of the image you can create a sort of frame with the glow effect, then superimpose that frame image on your image, and fade it into view. It would appear as if the image below is glowing. That way you wont have to create a glow version of all your images, just one frame image and use it on all images.

When you say "frame", what exactly is that? Is it another UIImageView?

If so, what then if my image is moving or animating? How to attach to my image?

How can I superimpose a glow effect over an animated/moving image without destroying the original image?

[baja_yu]

It depends on what you are actually doing. But imagine you have a photo that you want to hang on the wall (that's your image you have now), the glow would be the picture frame you use when hanging it. So you could have the glow image as a separate imageview and when moving move it along with the other, or have the imageview with your image be a subview of the glow imageview. As I said, depends on what you are doing.