The image project is a comprehensive library and center stone of an ecosystem for decoding, encoding, representing, and manipulating images. The library originates spawned as part of the Piston project and soon enough some of its more popular encoders (such as png, gif, tiff) where split into separate crates. In 2019 the whole collection of image libraries was split into its own organization.

The fractal in background of the header of this page was created with the image library! It is a variation of a long-standing example that can be found in the repository. The best part is that the crate is popular enough that you can expirement directly on the Rust Playground play.rust-lang.org.