A unified way to access images from both: the App Bundle and the Photo Library

[coolthing76]

My app gives the user to choose an image as background to his occasion.The image source could be:

1. From the app bundle and then I would save the user selection to the occasion object's

[occasion imagePath]

which is an NSString file name for example image1.png

2. From the photo library and then I would save the NSURL after converting it to an NSString, also to the

[occasion imagePath]

for exampele

assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=1000000002&ext=JPG

Now my question is: How to load the image from the photo library to a UIImage instance using that path in the 2nd case?

I tried

NSString *path = [occasion imagePath];

if (path != nil)
{
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:path];
}

but it didn't load the image.