Replace a particular color inside an image with another color

  1. You have to iterate through each pixel in the image and take its rgb
    values
  2. Check its rgb values matches your fromColor rgb values, if yes
    change the pixel value to your toColor rgb values.If not, just leave
    that pixel and go to next one..

Wrote a function from memory..errors possible..correct yourself

-(UIImage*)changeColor:(UIImage*)myImage fromColor:(UIColor*)fromColor toColor:(UIColor*)toColor{
    CGImageRef originalImage    = [myImage CGImage];
    CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace  = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
    CGContextRef bitmapContext  = 
CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL,CGImageGetWidth(originalImage),CGImageGetHeight(originalImage),
 8,CGImageGetWidth(originalImage)*4,colorSpace,kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast);
    CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
    CGContextDrawImage(bitmapContext, CGRectMake(0, 0, 
CGBitmapContextGetWidth(bitmapContext),CGBitmapContextGetHeight(bitmapContext)), 
originalImage);
    UInt8 *data          = CGBitmapContextGetData(bitmapContext);
    int numComponents    = 4;
    int bytesInContext   = CGBitmapContextGetHeight(bitmapContext) *      
    CGBitmapContextGetBytesPerRow(bitmapContext);
    double redIn, greenIn, blueIn,alphaIn;
    CGFloat fromRed,fromGreen,fromBlue,fromAlpha;
    CGFloat toRed,toGreen,toBlue,toAlpha; 

    //Get RGB values of fromColor
    int fromCountComponents = CGColorGetNumberOfComponents([fromColor CGColor]);
    if (fromCountComponents == 4) {
     const CGFloat *_components = CGColorGetComponents([fromColor CGColor]);
     fromRed = _components[0];
     fromGreen = _components[1];
     fromBlue = _components[2];
     fromAlpha = _components[3];
    }


    //Get RGB values for toColor
    int toCountComponents = CGColorGetNumberOfComponents([toColor CGColor]);
    if (toCountComponents == 4) {
      const CGFloat *_components = CGColorGetComponents([toColor CGColor]);
      toRed   = _components[0];
      toGreen = _components[1];
      toBlue  = _components[2];
      toAlpha = _components[3];
    }


    //Now iterate through each pixel in the image..
    for (int i = 0; i < bytesInContext; i += numComponents) {
        //rgba value of current pixel..
        redIn    =   (double)data[i]/255.0;
        greenIn  =   (double)data[i+1]/255.0;
        blueIn   =   (double)data[i+2]/255.0;
        alphaIn  =   (double)data[i+3]/255.0;

        //now you got current pixel rgb values...check it curresponds with your fromColor
        if( redIn == fromRed && greenIn == fromGreen && blueIn == fromBlue ){
            //image color matches fromColor, then change current pixel color to toColor
            data[i]    =   toRed;
            data[i+1]  =   toGreen;
            data[i+2]  =   toBlue;
            data[i+3]  = toAlpha;       
        }
    }
    CGImageRef outImage =   CGBitmapContextCreateImage(bitmapContext);
    myImage             =   [UIImage imageWithCGImage:outImage];
    CGImageRelease(outImage);
    return myImage;
}

I hope you are not calling this function every time…It is a bit processor heavy..And if I was your processor, I wouldn’t be happy with you..:)

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