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# Conversion

Convert an image to a different format.

## Topics

### Converting any-to-any

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/building-a-basic-image-conversion-workflow>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/converting-chroma-subsampled-images>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-perform-any-to-any-conversion>

### Type conversion

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-between-integer-planar-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-between-integer-interleaved-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-from-integer-planar-buffers-to-noninteger-planar-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-from-integer-interleaved-buffers-to-noninteger-interleaved-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-between-noninteger-planar-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-between-noninteger-interleaved-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-from-noninteger-planar-buffers-to-integer-planar-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-from-noninteger-interleaved-buffers-to-integer-interleaved-buffers>

### Converting between interleaved and planar formats

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-interleave-integer-planar-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-interleave-noninteger-planar-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-deinterleave-integer-interleaved-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-deinterleave-noninteger-interleaved-buffers>

### Adding and removing alpha channels

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-add-an-alpha-channel-to-three-channel-buffers>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-remove-an-alpha-channel-from-four-channel-buffers>

### Converting between YCbCr and RGB color spaces

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-from-ycbcr-to-rgb>

  <doc://com.apple.accelerate/documentation/Accelerate/functions-that-convert-from-rgb-to-ycbcr>


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