# VkImageView(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkImageView - Opaque handle to an image view object

## C Specification

Image objects are not directly accessed by pipeline shaders for reading or writing image data. Instead, image views representing contiguous ranges of the image subresources and containing additional metadata are used for that purpose. Views must be created on images of compatible types, and must represent a valid subset of image subresources.

Image views are represented by `VkImageView` handles:

    VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkImageView)

## Description

## See Also

VkDescriptorImageInfo, VkFramebufferCreateInfo, VkImageViewHandleInfoNVX, VkRenderPassAttachmentBeginInfo, vkCmdBindShadingRateImageNV, vkCreateImageView, vkDestroyImageView

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

## Copyright

Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.