How can i take an UIImage and give it a black bord

Question

How can I set the border of a UIImage?

Answer 1

You could manipulate the image itself, but a much better way is to simply add a UIView that contains the UIImageView, and change the background to black. Then set the size of that container view to a little bit larger than the UIImageView.

Answer 2

If you know the dimensions of your image, then adding a border to the UIImageView's layer is the best solution AFAIK. Infact, you can simply setFrame your imageView to x,y,image.size.width,image.size.height

In case you have an ImageView of a fixed size with dynamically loaded images which are getting resized (or scaled to AspectFit), then your aim is to resize the imageview to the new resized image.

The shortest way to do this:

// containerView is my UIImageView
containerView.layer.borderWidth = 7;
containerView.layer.borderColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.22 green:0.22 blue:0.22 alpha:1.0].CGColor;

// this is the key command
[containerView setFrame:AVMakeRectWithAspectRatioInsideRect(image.size, containerView.frame)];

But to use the AVMakeRectWithAspectRatioInsideRect, you need to add this

#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>

import statement to your file and also include the AVFoundation framework in your project (comes bundled with the SDK).

Answer 3

You can do this by creating a new image (also answered in your other posting of this question):

- (UIImage*)imageWithBorderFromImage:(UIImage*)source;
{
  CGSize size = [source size];
  UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(size);
  CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height);
  [source drawInRect:rect blendMode:kCGBlendModeNormal alpha:1.0];

  CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
  CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor(context, 1.0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.0); 
  CGContextStrokeRect(context, rect);
  UIImage *testImg =  UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
  UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
  return testImg;
}  

This code will produce a pink border around the image. However if you are going to just display the border then use the layer of the UIImageView and set its border.

Answer 4

You can't add a border, but this would work for the same effect. You could also make the UIView called blackBG in this example into a UIImageView with a border image and a blank middle, and then you'd have a custom image border instead of just black.

UIView *blackBG = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,100,100)];

blackBG.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];

UIImageView *myPicture = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:
                          [UIImage imageNamed: @"myPicture.jpg"]];

int borderWidth = 10;

myPicture.frame = CGRectMake(borderWidth,
                             borderWidth,
                             blackBG.frame.size.width-borderWidth*2,
                             blackBG.frame.size.height-borderWidth*2)];

[blackBG addSubview: myPicture];

Answer 5

In Swift 3 here's how you do it to the UIImage itself:

let size = CGSize(width: image.size.width, height: image.size.height)
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(size)
let rect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: size.width, height: size.height)
image?.draw(in: rect, blendMode: .normal, alpha: 1.0)
let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()
context?.setStrokeColor(red: 0, green: 0, blue: 0, alpha: 1)
context?.stroke(rect)
let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

self.imageView.image = newImage

Answer 6

I use this method to add a border outside the image. You can customise the border width in boderWidth constant.

Swift 3

func addBorderToImage(image : UIImage) -> UIImage {
    let bgImage = image.cgImage
    let initialWidth = (bgImage?.width)!
    let initialHeight = (bgImage?.height)!
    let borderWidth = Int(Double(initialWidth) * 0.10);
    let width = initialWidth + borderWidth * 2
    let height = initialHeight + borderWidth * 2
    let data = malloc(width * height * 4)

    let context = CGContext(data: data,
                        width: width,
                        height: height,
                        bitsPerComponent: 8,
                        bytesPerRow: width * 4,
                        space: (bgImage?.colorSpace)!,
                        bitmapInfo: CGImageAlphaInfo.premultipliedLast.rawValue);

    context?.draw(bgImage!, in: CGRect(x: CGFloat(borderWidth), y: CGFloat(borderWidth), width: CGFloat(initialWidth), height: CGFloat(initialHeight)))
    context?.setStrokeColor(UIColor.white.cgColor)
    context?.setLineWidth(CGFloat(borderWidth))
    context?.move(to: CGPoint(x: 0, y: 0))
    context?.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: 0, y: height))
    context?.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: width, y: height))
    context?.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: width, y: 0))
    context?.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: 0, y: 0))
    context?.strokePath()

    let cgImage = context?.makeImage()
    let uiImage = UIImage(cgImage: cgImage!)

    free(data)

    return uiImage;
}