# Cheese Reference Manual

## Cheese Overview

Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. Cheese also provides two libraries for use by other applications: libcheese and libcheese-gtk.

The following diagram shows an overview of Cheese architecture: Cheese architecture

Diagram of the Cheese architecture

## libcheese

libcheese provides video and photo capture functionality which does not require GTK+, such as enumerating video capture devices.

## libcheese-gtk

libcheese-gtk provides video and photo capture widgets for use in GTK+ applications

## Running Cheese

## Object Hierarchy

## API Index

## Index of deprecated symbols