Thank you Ken, and for the transparency layer hint too, I wouldn't
have thought of that.
I missed a whole load of blend modes not realizing that the Quartz 2D
Programming Guide didn't list them all, it stops at luminosity, my bad
there for not checking out the actual class docs and finding all the
other ones (which they actually give formulae for too!)
One question about Transparency Layers, the docs say that when you
start one the global alpha is set to 1, shadows are turned off and
blend mode is set normal (actually only the Quartz 2D guide says that
the blend mode changes, the actual API docs don't mention it). When
the layer is ended it's composited back to the original context, what
blending mode is used to do that, I assume the original blend mode at
the point the Transparency Layer was started right?
On 23-Sep-2009, at 4:05 AM, Ken Ferry wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:20 AM, David Duncan
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Roland King wrote:
I'm trying to construct an image which is colored according to the
alpha value of a different image. I've been hunting around the
Quartz Core docs and I can't figure out a good way to do this. The
motivation is to do something similar to what apple does on the
iphone tabbar items which are drawn white or blue using the alpha of
the image you supply and it's a pretty good effect I want to reuse.
Just use your second image as a mask via CGContextClipToMask(). If
you use a normal image, then the alpha values are used as alpha for
the drawing you do which should do exactly what you want.
Also, this bit
So for instance if I my drawing color is D and the point on my
underlying image is {r,g,b,a}, I want to draw a point of color S * a.
seems to have a typo, but there are compositing modes for whatever
operation you're talking about here.
DestinationIn is Result = DestinationColor * SourceAlpha. So you
could do CGContextBeginTransparencyLayer, draw mask with SourceOver,
draw color to be masked with DestinationIn,
CGContextEndTransparencyLayer.
There are quite a few modes that use only the alpha channel from
either source or destination.
-Ken
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