UIImage Add Grey tranparency - ios

Question

I want to do the following:
As you can see one image (selected) does not have a grey fade and the other (nonselected item) does not.
I have tried multiple solutions. Including coloring the images with a grey color
- (UIImage *)colorizeImage:(UIImage *)image withColor:(UIColor *)color {
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(image.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGRect area = CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width, image.size.height);
CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1, -1);
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, -area.size.height);
CGContextSaveGState(context);
CGContextClipToMask(context, area, image.CGImage);
[color set];
CGContextFillRect(context, area);
CGContextRestoreGState(context);
CGContextSetBlendMode(context, kCGBlendModeMultiply);
CGContextDrawImage(context, area, image.CGImage);
UIImage *colorizedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return colorizedImage;
}
However with this approach I run into an issue where if the bg of an image has a transparency the white below it shine through and it looks strange:
How can I detect the transparency and change the transparency to white? Or is there a better solution for doing this?
image = [self imageWithImage:image scaledToSize:CGSizeMake((self.collectionViewContainer.frame.size.width/3),90)];
UIImage *unSelected = [self colorizeImage:image withColor:[[UIColor grayColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:.9]];
UIImageView *imgView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:unSelected highlightedImage:image];

Answer 1

Since you simply want to apply a gray tint to an image, try it this way:
- (UIImage *)colorizeImage:(UIImage *)image withColor:(UIColor *)color {
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(image.size, NO, image.scale);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGRect area = CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width, image.size.height);
[image drawInRect:area];
[color set];
CGContextFillRect(context, area);
UIImage *colorizedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return colorizedImage;
}
This draws the image and then draws the color over the image. Assuming the color is partially transparent, the entire new image will be colored.
As you had it originally, you were only coloring the non-transparent parts due to the image clipping.
This update also applies the proper scale to the new image to match the original image.