diff --git a/basis/images/loader/loader.factor b/basis/images/loader/loader.factor
index acb0f2ca86..700b95eb41 100644
--- a/basis/images/loader/loader.factor
+++ b/basis/images/loader/loader.factor
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2009 Doug Coleman, Daniel Ehrenberg.
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
 USING: accessors assocs byte-arrays combinators images
-io.encodings.binary io.pathnames io.streams.byte-array
-io.streams.limited kernel namespaces splitting strings
-unicode.case sequences ;
+io.encodings.binary io.files io.pathnames io.streams.byte-array
+io.streams.limited kernel namespaces sequences splitting
+strings unicode.case ;
 IN: images.loader
 
 ERROR: unknown-image-extension extension ;
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ types [ H{ } clone ] initialize
 
 PRIVATE>
 
+! Image Decode
+
 GENERIC# load-image* 1 ( obj class -- image )
 
 GENERIC: stream>image ( stream class -- image )
@@ -43,3 +45,11 @@ M: limited-stream load-image* stream>image ;
 M: string load-image* [ open-image-file ] dip stream>image ;
 
 M: pathname load-image* [ open-image-file ] dip stream>image ;
+
+! Image Encode
+
+GENERIC: image>stream ( image class -- )
+
+: save-graphic-image ( image path -- )
+    [ image-class ] [ ] bi
+    binary [ image>stream ] with-file-writer ;