The Image Kit framework gives your application the ability to browse, view, adjust, and process images efficiently. It provides a platform-optimized set of image handling components, including a browser that can handle thousands of images without adversely affecting the memory consumption of your application. It also supports browsing Core Image filters, previewing the effects, and providing controls for individual filters. Image Kit attends to the details of handling large sets of images in your application, freeing you to focus on adding features that make your application unique.

Articles

Leopard Technology Series for Developers: Graphics & Media Overview
Read how Core Animation, Image Kit, QTKit and improved Quartz Composer all help make Mac OS X Leopard a great graphics development platform.

Documentation

Image Kit Programming Guide
Describes Image Kit user interface elements and shows, through code examples, how to use Image Kit classes.

Image Kit Reference Collection
A collection of reference documents for the classes that make up the Image Kit API.

Related Links

Mac†OS†X System Architecture

See how the graphics layer relates to other technologies in the Mac†OS†X System Architecture diagram.

Graphics & Imaging Topics
Core Animation Core Image Image Kit OpenGL Quartz Quartz Composer

Graphics & Imaging Downloads

Graphics & Imaging Headlines Technical Q&As: Driving OpenGL Rendering Loops 2008-12-23 Reference: Core Image Kernel Language Reference 2008-06-09 Guides: OpenGL Programming Guide for Mac OS X 2008-06-09 Sample Code: QTCoreVideo102 2008-06-06 Sample Code: QTCoreVideo103 2008-06-06

Graphics & Imaging Quartz Reference Library Documentation Sample Code Technical Notes Technical Q&As

Quartz Mailing List Technical discussion of Image Kit takes place on the Quartz mailing list.