Help needed with UIImage manipulation

I have two UIImage objects as follow:

image1:

image2:

I wish to combine the two images via code so I can get the following image:

My graphics skills in iPhone are really poor... so any sample code will be great开发者_开发问答ly appreciated.

Thanks! Josh

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I guess you are looking at applying a mask to an image, so take a look here, hope it helps