Question

I’d like to be able to take a picture (camera or library) and overlay something like a picture frame on it, then save it back to the camera roll. Should I be looking into OpenGL?or, what?

Thanks for the pointers.

Answer 1

You don’t need anything except Quartz for that. Look into CGBitmapContext, CGContext, CGImage, UIImage. There’s also a function to store images in the album: UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum

The way to go is:

1. Get a UIImage from UIImagePickerController.
2. Build a context using CGBitmapContextCreate
3. Draw the image in this context: CGContextDrawImage
4. Draw whatever you want on top of that
5. Use CGBitmapContextCreateImage to create a CGImage from the context
6. Use [UIImage imageWithCGImage:] to get a UIImage from the CGImage
7. Use UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum to save the augmented image.