See Also: CIMaskToAlpha Members
Black translates to 100% alpha (completely transparent) and white to 0%.
The following example shows this filter in use
C# Example
// Create the CIImage from a file
CIImage heron = CIImage.FromCGImage (UIImage.FromFile ("heron.jpg").CGImage);
CIImage clouds = CIImage.FromCGImage (UIImage.FromFile ("clouds.jpg").CGImage);
CIImage flower = CIImage.FromCGImage (UIImage.FromFile ("flower.png").CGImage);
// Create a CIMaskToAlpha filter with the input image
var mask_to_alpha = new CIMaskToAlpha ()
{
Image = heron
};
// Get the altered image from the filter
var output = new CIBlendWithAlphaMask () {
BackgroundImage = clouds,
Image = flower,
Mask = mask_to_alpha.OutputImage
}.OutputImage;
// To render the results, we need to create a context, and then
// use one of the context rendering APIs, in this case, we render the
// result into a CoreGraphics image, which is merely a useful representation
//
var context = CIContext.FromOptions (null);
var cgimage = context.CreateCGImage (output, output.Extent);
// The above cgimage can be added to a screen view, for example, this
// would add it to a UIImageView on the screen:
myImageView.Image = UIImage.FromImage (cgimage);
With the following image inputs:



Produces the following output:

"canon" © 2012 cuatrok77 hernandez, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
"Sunrise near Atkeison Plateau" © 2012 Charles Atkeison, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
"Flower" © 2012 Milica Sekulic, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/