How to apply a tintColor to a UIImage?
If you are just supporting iOS 7 you can use tintColor
and UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate
This article covers that:
https://www.captechconsulting.com/blogs/ios-7-tutorial-series-tint-color-and-easy-app-theming
If you need to support an earlier version you may want to consider this thread
How would I tint an image programmatically on the iPhone?
How can I change image tintColor in iOS and WatchKit
iOS
For an iOS app, in Swift 3, 4 or 5:
theImageView.image = theImageView.image?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate)
theImageView.tintColor = UIColor.red
For Swift 2:
theImageView.image = theImageView.image?.imageWithRenderingMode(UIImageRenderingMode.AlwaysTemplate)
theImageView.tintColor = UIColor.redColor()
Meanwhile, the modern Objective-C solution is:
theImageView.image = [theImageView.image imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate];
[theImageView setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];
Watchkit
In WatchKit for Apple Watch apps, you can set the tint color for a template image.
- You must add your image to an Asset Catalog in your WatchKit App, and set the image set to be rendered as a Template Image in the Attributes Inspector. Unlike for an iPhone app, you cannot set the template rendering in code in the WatchKit Extension at present.
- Set that image to be used in your WKInterfaceImage in interface builder for your app
- Create an IBOutlet in your WKInterfaceController for the WKInterfaceImage called 'theImage'...
To then set the tint color in Swift 3 or 4:
theImage.setTintColor(UIColor.red)
Swift 2:
theImage.setTintColor(UIColor.redColor())
To then set the tint color in Objective-C:
[self.theImage setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];
If you use a template image and do not apply a tint colour, the Global Tint for your WatchKit app will be applied. If you have not set a Global Tint, theImage
will be tinted light blue by default when used as a template image.
How to change tintcolor to uiimage in cell loaded by sd_setImageWithURL?
You should be using SDWebImage
function with completion block. Try this.
cell.icon.tintColor = [UIColor yellowColor];
[cell.icon sd_setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:myURL] placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:imageName] options:SDWebImageRefreshCached completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType, NSURL *imageURL) {
cell.icon.image = [image imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate];
}];
How can I change image tintColor
Try to generate new image for yourself
UIImage *newImage = [_sketchImageView.image imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate];
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(image.size, NO, newImage.scale);
[yourTintColor set];
[newImage drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width, newImage.size.height)];
newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
_sketchImageView.image = newImage;
And use it.
Good luck
======= UPDATE =======
This solution will only change color of all pixel's image.
Example: we have a book image: http://pngimg.com/upload/book_PNG2113.png
And after running above code (exp: TintColor
is RED). We have:
SO: how your image is depends on how you designed it
Using Tint color on UIImageView
Instead of this code:
[image imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate];
you should have:
image = [image imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate];
Use this in Swift 4.1
image = UIImage(named: "name")!.withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate)
How to set tint color of an Image
I had added 2 more methods to your extension of UIImage
for tint an Image and added some changes in your overlayed
method
extension UIImage {
func overlayed(with overlay: UIImage,color:UIColor) -> UIImage? {
defer {
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
}
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, false, scale)
self.draw(in: CGRect(origin: CGPoint.zero, size: size))
let tintedOverlay = overlay.tinted(color: color)
tintedOverlay.draw(in: CGRect(origin: CGPoint.zero, size: size), blendMode: .multiply, alpha: 1.0)
if let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext() {
return image
}
return nil
}
func tinted(color: UIColor) -> UIImage
{
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(self.size, false, UIScreen.main.scale)
let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()
color.setFill()
context!.translateBy(x: 0, y: self.size.height)
context!.scaleBy(x: 1.0, y: -1.0)
context!.setBlendMode(CGBlendMode.colorBurn)
let rect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.size.width, height: self.size.height)
context!.draw(self.cgImage!, in: rect)
context!.setBlendMode(CGBlendMode.sourceIn)
context!.addRect(rect)
context!.drawPath(using: CGPathDrawingMode.fill)
let coloredImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
return coloredImage!
}
}
The content of Tinted method is from this question How can I color a UIImage in Swift?
answer provided by @HR
Use It
let mainCircleImage = UIImage(named: "actions_menu_edit")?
let tintedImage = UIImage(named: "actions_menu_add")
pictureImageView?.image = mainCircleImage?.overlayed(with: tintedImage!,color: UIColor.red)
UPDATED
Result with the last update
How to change the color of a UIImage in Swift
edit/update:
For iOS10+ we can use UIGraphicsImageRenderer:
Xcode 11 • Swift 5.1
extension UIImage {
func tinted(with color: UIColor, isOpaque: Bool = false) -> UIImage? {
let format = imageRendererFormat
format.opaque = isOpaque
return UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: size, format: format).image { _ in
color.set()
withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate).draw(at: .zero)
}
}
}
Playground Testing
let camera = UIImage(data: try! Data(contentsOf: URL(string: "https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/ionicons/512/icon-camera-128.png")!))!
let redCamera = camera.tinted(with: .red)
original answer
You can use UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions to begin an image context, set the desired color and use image's method func draw(in rect: CGRect)
to draw your icon image using rendering mode .alwaysTemplate
on it:
extension UIImage {
func tinted(with color: UIColor) -> UIImage? {
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, false, scale)
defer { UIGraphicsEndImageContext() }
color.set()
withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate)
.draw(in: CGRect(origin: .zero, size: size))
return UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
}
}
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