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This is a comparison of image file formats.
General
Ownership of the format and related information.
| Format | Full name | Owner | Based Format | File extension | MIME type | Application | Patented | Supported on Image Magick | Supported on FFmpeg | Supported on ExifTool 7.60 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abc | Advanced Bitonal Compression | LEAD Technologies | .abc | Yes | No | No | No | |||
| ADRG | ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | .adrg | No | No | No | |||||
| AdobeResource | Adobe Systems | TIFF? | ? | ? | ? | |||||
| ADRI | ARC Digitized Raster Images | .adri | No | No | No | |||||
| AGP | ArtGem Project | RL Vision | .agp | Preferred graphics format when working with ArtGem | No | No | No | No | ||
| AI | Adobe Illustrator Document | Adobe Systems | .ai | application/Illustrator | Adobe Illustrator files are editable using programs that support the format, such as Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDRAW, etc. | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| Alias Pix image | .pix, .matte, .mask, .alpha, .als |
Supported by GIMP | No | No | No | |||||
| AMI | .ami | Supported by Amica Paint | No | No | No | |||||
| ANI | ANI file format | Microsoft | RIFF | .ani | Used by Microsoft Windows | No | No | ? | ||
| ANIM | Electronic Arts and Commodore Amiga | IFF | .iff, .anim | video/x-anim | No | No | No | |||
| APNG | Animated Portable Network Graphics | Mozilla | PNG | .png | image/png | Gecko 1.9 | No | ? | No | Yes |
| Apple Icon Image | Apple Computer | .icns | Used by Mac OS X | No | No | No | ||||
| APX | .apx | Supported by Ebuyer Photo Paint | No | No | No | |||||
| ART | AOL | .art | No | No | No | |||||
| ART | PFS: 1st Publisher clip art | .art | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | |||||
| Ascii Art | .txt, .ansi, .text | text/plain | Supported by GIMP | No | No | No | ||||
| Authorware map | Adobe Systems | .aam | application/x-authorware-map | No | No | No | ||||
| Authorware seg | Adobe Systems | .aas | application/x-authorware-seg | No | No | No | ||||
| Authorware bin | Adobe Systems | .aab, .x32, .u32, .vox |
application/x-authorware-bin | No | No | No | ||||
| AutoCAD DXF | Drawing Interchange Format | Autodesk | .dxf | No | No | No | ||||
| AWD | .awd | image/awd | Used by PhotoPhilia | No | No | No | ||||
| ARW | Sony Alpha RAW | Sony | TIFF | .arw | No | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||
| BAY | Casio RAW | Casio | .bay | No | No | No | ||||
| BEF | Unified Color BEF | Unified Color | TIFF | .bef | HDR PhotoStudio | Yes | No | No | No | |
| BigTIFF | TIFF | .btf, .tiff, .tif | ? | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||||
| BMF | Corel | .bmf | Used by Corel Clipart Gallery apps and any BMF image utility | No | No | No | ||||
| bmp compressor | Bit Map Compressor | .hpc | No | No | No | |||||
| BLEAND | .blend | Supported by Blender | No | No | No | |||||
| BRK | Brooktrout Fax | .brk | No | No | No | |||||
| BSAVE | BSAVE Image | .BSV | Used by IBM PC. | No | No | No | ||||
| CAM | Casio CAM | Casio | JPEG | .cam | No | No | No | |||
| CADRG | Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | .cadrg | No | No | No | |||||
| CAL | CALS raster file format | .cal, .cals, .ras, .dcl | No | No | No | |||||
| Capture One RAW | Phase One | .cap | No | No | No | |||||
| CIFF | Camera Image File Format | Canon | .crw, .ciff | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes | ||||
| CR2 | Canon RAW 2 | Canon | TIFF | .cr2 | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes | |||
| CDR | CorelDRAW Document | Corel Corporation | .cdr, .ccx, .cdt, .cmx | application/coreldraw | CorelDRAW files are editable using programs that support the format, such as CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, etc. | Yes | No | No | No | |
| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile | .cgm | image/cgm | CGM files are editable using programs that support the format, such as IBM Lotus Freelance Graphics, Inkscape, etc. | No | No | No | |||
| CIN | Cineon | .cin | image/cineon | Yes | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | ||||
| Corel Paint Shop Pro Pattern | .pat | Supported by Corel Paint Shop Pro | No | No | No | |||||
| CPC | Cartesian Perceptual Compression | Cartesian Products, Inc. | .cpc, .cpi | image/cpi | Highly compressed raster imaging format. | Yes | No | No | No | |
| CPKT | APP5-CPKT Format | JPEG | .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg | Used by PROSERPINE. | No | No | Yes | |||
| CPT | Corel Photo-Paint Image | .cpt | No | No | No | |||||
| Crack Art | Detlef Röttger & Jan Borchers | .ca1, .ca2, .ca3 | an application on Atari ST | No | No | No | ||||
| CUT | .cut | Used by DSHELL. | No | No | No | |||||
| CMYK | .cmyk | Yes | No | No | ||||||
| CMYKA | .cmyka | Yes | No | No | ||||||
| DCS | Kodak DCS Pro RAW | Kodak | .dcs | No | No | No | ||||
| DCR | Digital Camera Raw | Kodak | TIFF | .dcr | No | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||
| DDS | DirectDraw Surface | Microsoft | .dds | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | ||||
| Degas | Design & Entertainment Graphic Arts System | Integral Solutions | .pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3 |
an application on Atari ST | No | No | No | |||
| DNG | Digital Negative | Adobe Systems | TIFF | .dng | Open format intended to replace proprietary .raw files in digital cameras | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes | ||
| DIA | Dia Drawing | XML | .dia | Used by Dia | No | No | No | |||
| DICOM | .dcm, .dicom | Supported by GIMP | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||||
| DjVu | DjVu | AT&T Research | .djvu, .djv | image/vnd.djvu | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||
| Doodle | .doo | an application on Atari ST | No | No | No | |||||
| DPX | Digital Picture eXchange file format | .dpx | image/dpx | Yes | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | ||||
| DRF | Kodak Pro Back RAW | Kodak | .drf | No | No | No | ||||
| Dr. Halo | .cut | Yes | No | No | ||||||
| Encapsulated PostScript | .epi, .eps, .eps2, .eps3, .epsf, .epsi, .ept |
Yes (partially ReadOnly) | No | Yes | ||||||
| ECW | Enhanced Compressed Wavelet File | Earth Resource Mapping | .ecw | Geo-referenced image format used for aerial photos | No | No | No | |||
| EDG | EDGE2 Original Format | TAKABO | .edg | Used by EDGE2 | No | No | No | |||
| EMF | Windows Enhanced Metafile | Microsoft | .emf | Microsoft Office | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | |||
| EMF+ | .emf+ | ? | No | No | ||||||
| ERF | EPSON RAW | EPSON | TIFF | .erf | No | No | Yes | |||
| ERI | Entis Rasterized Image format | .eri | No | No | No | |||||
| Exif | Exchangeable Image File Format | .exif | ? | ? | Yes | |||||
| EVA | Extended Vector Animation | Sharp Corporation | .eva | application/x-eva | No | No | No | |||
| EXR | OpenEXR | ILM | .exr | image/exr | Used in film effects for 3d rendering and hdr images. | ? | Yes | No | No | |
| FIF | Fractal Image Format | .fif | No | No | No | |||||
| FIG | FIG format | .fig | Supported by Xfig | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | ||||
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System | .fit, .fits | Scientific (esp. astronomical) data acquisition | Yes | No | No | ||||
| FLA | Flash Source File | .fla | No | No | No | |||||
| FLIC | Autodesk | .fli, .flc, .flx, .flh, .flt | Supported by GIMP | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | ||||
| FLW | Kivio Document | .flw | Supported by Kivio | No | No | No | ||||
| FPX | FlashPix (1.0.2) | .fpx | image/vnd.fpx | Yes | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | ||||
| FreeHand | Adobe Systems | .fh4, .fh5, .fh7, .fh8, .fhc, .fh |
image/x-freehand | No | No | No | ||||
| FutureSplash | Adobe Systems | .spl | application/futuresplash | No | No | No | ||||
| FXT | 3DFX | .fxt | No | No | No | |||||
| GEGL composition | XML | .xml | application/xml | used by GEGL | No | No | ? | |||
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | CompuServe, Unisys (compression algorithm) |
.gif, .gfa, .giff | image/gif | Supported by most web browsers. Supports transparency and animation. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| GIMP brush | The GIMP Team | .gbr | Supported by GIMP | No | No | No | ||||
| GIMP compressed XJT image | The GIMP Team | .xjt, .xjtgz (compressed), .xjtbz2 (compressed) |
Supported by GIMP | No | No | No | ||||
| GIH | Gimp image hose | The GIMP Team | .gih | Supported by GIMP | No | No | No | |||
| GIMP patterns | The GIMP Team | .pat | Supported by GIMP | No | No | No | ||||
| GRA | .gra | Used by QSV and QLD. | No | No | No | |||||
| G3 Fax | .g3 | Supported by GIMP | No | No | No | |||||
| Hasselblad 3FR RAW | TIFF | .3fr | No | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||||
| Hasselblad/Imacon FFF | .fff | No | No | No | ||||||
| HDRi | TIFF | .tif, .tiff | ? | No | No | |||||
| HD Photo | HD Photo | Microsoft | .wdp, .hdp | image/vnd.ms-photo | TIFF-like container format with HDR encoding for photographic images | Yes (no licence costs) | No | No | Yes | |
| HG | Hyper Graphic Press | .hg | Supported by some old Japanese applications. | No | No | No | ||||
| ICER | NASA Mars Rovers | No | No | No | ||||||
| IIQ RAW | Intelligent Image Quality RAW | Phase One | .iiq | No | No | No | ||||
| IMA | .ima | .ima team | .ima | Format for photographic images with HDR encoding. | No | No | No | No | ||
| IMG | .img | Supported by GEM Paint | No | No | No | |||||
| im4 | Masahide Hirabayashi | .im4 | No | No | No | |||||
| Inkscape SVG | The Inkscape Team | SVG | .svg, .svgz | Used by Inkscape | No | No | ? | |||
| ICO | ICO file format | Microsoft | .ico, .cur | image/vnd.Microsoft.icon, image/x-icon | Used by Microsoft Windows | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | ||
| ICS | Image Cytometry Standard | .ics, .ids | No | No | No | |||||
| IGS | Initial Graphics Exchange Specification | .gs | image/iges | No | No | No | ||||
| ILBM | InterLeaved BitMap | Electronic Arts and Commodore Amiga | IFF | .iff, .ilbm, .lbm | image/x-ilbm | Planar graphics format designed for Amiga graphics hardware. | No | No | No | No |
| IPTC/NAA | IPTC/NAA | TIFF | ? | ? | ? | |||||
| JBIG | Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group | .jbig, .bie, .jbg | Yes | No | No | |||||
| JBIG2 | Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group | ? | No | No | ||||||
| JNG | JPEG Network Graphics | .jng | image/x-jng | No | Yes | No | Yes | |||
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group | Joint Photographic Experts Group | .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe (containers: .jif, .jfif, .jfi) |
image/jpeg | Photographic images. Supported by most web browsers. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| JPEG 2000 | Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000 | Joint Photographic Experts Group | .jp2, .j2c, .jpc, .j2k, .jpx |
image/jp2 | Photographic images, eventual replacement for JPEG. | Yes (no licence costs for part 1) | Yes | No | Yes | |
| JPEG-LS | Joint Photographic Experts Group | .jls | ? | No | No | |||||
| JPEG-HDR | ? | No | ? | |||||||
| J6I | RICOH | JPEG | .j6i | Used by RICOH DC-1/2 | No | No | No | |||
| KDC | Kodak DC40/DC50 RAW | Kodak | TIFF | .kdc | No | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||
| KOA | .koa, .gg (compressed) |
Supported by Koala Paint | No | No | No | |||||
| KIFF | Kt Interchange File Format | .kif, .kiff | No | No | No | |||||
| KISS CEL | .cel | Supported by GIMP | No | No | No | |||||
| Kodak TIFF extensions | Kodak | TIFF | .tif | No | No | Yes | ||||
| Kodak YCC | Kodak | .pcd | No | No | No | |||||
| KQP | Minolta | JPEG | .kqp | No | No | No | ||||
| K25 | Kodak DC25 RAW | Kodak | TIFF | .k25 | No | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||
| Leaf Mosaic RAW | TIFF | .mos | No | No | Yes | |||||
| LightStream Picture | .lsp | No | No | No | ||||||
| Logluv TIFF | Greg Ward | TIFF | Supported by Libtiff | ? | No | No | ||||
| Mac Paint | .pnt, .mac | No | No | No | ||||||
| MDC | Minolta RD175 Format | Minolta | .mdc | No | No | No | ||||
| MET | OS/2 Metafile Format | .met | Supported by SAS/GRAPH | No | No | No | ||||
| MNG | Multiple-image Network Graphics | PNG | .mng | video/x-mng | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| MO:DCA | MO:DCA | IBM | .mda, .ica, .mmr, .afp |
image | IBM's Content Manager and Image Plus | Yes | No | No | No | |
| MSP | Microsoft Paint | Microsoft | .msp | No | No | No | ||||
| MYD | Myd format | .myd | No | No | No | |||||
| MYV | Myv vector format | .myv | No | No | No | |||||
| NEF | Nikon RAW | Nikon | TIFF | .nef | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes | |||
| MEF | Mamiya RAW | Mamiya | TIFF | .mef | No | No | Yes | |||
| Neochrome | Dave Staugas | .neo | an application on Atari ST | No | No | No | ||||
| MAG | MAKIchan Graphic loader | Woody-Rinn | .mag | Used by many old Japanese applications. | No | No | No | |||
| MAKI | MAKIchan net format | Woody-Rinn | .mki | No | No | No | ||||
| MIFF | Magick image file format | ImageMagick Studio | .miff | Supported by ImageMagick | Yes | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||
| MSA | Misachan File | Hirohumi Iguchi | .msa | Supported by old Japanese applications | No | No | No | |||
| MSL | Magick Scripting Language | ImageMagick Studio | .msl | Supported by ImageMagick | Yes | No | No | |||
| MVG | Magick Vector Graphics | ImageMagick Studio | .mvg | Supported by ImageMagick | Yes | No | No | |||
| MPC | Magick Persistent Cache image file format | ImageMagick Studio | .mpc | Supported by ImageMagick | Yes | No | No | |||
| MRW | Minolta RAW | Minolta | .mrw | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes | ||||
| NSK-TIFF | NSK-TIFF | Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (日本新聞協会) | TIFF | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| ODG | OpenDocument drawing | .odg | No | No | No | |||||
| OAZ | OAZ Fax | Oaz Communications | .oaz | used by NetFax Manager | No | No | No | |||
| ORF | Olympus RAW | Olympus | TIFF | .orf | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes | |||
| PAM | portable anymap file format | .pam | ? | Yes | No | |||||
| Panasonic RAW | Panasonic | TIFF | .raw, .rw2 | No | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | ||||
| PCIF | Polyomino Compressed Image Format | .pcf | No | No | No | |||||
| PhaseOne P25/P30/P45 RAW | Phase One | .tif, .tiff | No | No | ? | |||||
| PictureGear Pocket Image | .prc | No | No | No | ||||||
| PBM | Portable Bitmap File Format | .pbm | image/x-portable-bitmap | Yes | No | Yes | ||||
| PCD | Kodak ImagePac Photo CD | Kodak | .pcd | image/jpcd | Yes | No | No | |||
| PCF | Pixel Coordination Format | .pcf | image/pcf | No | No | No | ||||
| PCX | ZSoft PC Paintbrush File | ZSoft Corporation | .pcx, .pcc, .dcx | image/x-pcx | Dated rle packed indexed image format, used in some early 3d shooting games like Unreal Tournament as it takes up very little space and is easy to decode. | ? | Yes | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | |
| Portable Document Format | Adobe Systems | .pdf, .epdf | Yes | No | Yes | |||||
| PGF | Progressive Graphics File | xeraina GmbH | .pgf | Photographic images, eventual replacement for JPEG. | No | No | No | No | ||
| PEF | PENTAX RAW | PENTAX | TIFF | .pef | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes | |||
| PGM | Portable Graymap File Format | .pgm | image/x-portable-graymap | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Photochrome | .pcs | No | No | No | ||||||
| PNM | Portable anymap | .pnm | ? | No | ? | |||||
| PTX | Pentax RAW Bitmap Graphic | Pentax | .ptx | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | ||||
| Pi | Yanagisawa | .pi | Used by some old Japanese applications. | No | No | No | ||||
| PIC | Yanagisawa PIC | Yanagisawa | .pic | Used by many old Japanese applications. | No | No | No | |||
| PIC | DoGA PIC | Project Team DoGA | .pic | Used by DoGA CGA System. | No | No | No | |||
| PICT | Macintosh PICT Format | Apple Computer | .pict, .pic, .pct, .pct1, .pct2 |
image/pict | Metafile for Mac OS, not meant for print publishing. | Yes | Yes | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |
| PICtor | John Bridges, Doug Wolfgram | .pic | Supported by PCPaint | No | No | No | ||||
| PIC2 | Yanagisawa | .p2 | Supported by some old Japanese applications. | No | No | No | ||||
| Pixel | Pixel image format | Pixel | .px | image/px | Native format of the Pixel image editing program. | ? | No | No | No | |
| PLD | PhotoLine Document | Computerinsel GmbH | .pld | application/pld | Native format of the PhotoLine image editing program. | ? | No | No | No | |
| PMP | Sony | JPEG | .pmp | Used by Sony Cyber-Shot | No | No | ? | |||
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | World Wide Web Consortium | .png | image/png | W3C endorsed replacement for GIF. Supported by most web browsers. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Postscript | ps, ps2, ps3 | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||
| PPM | Portable Pixmap File Format | .ppm | image/x-portable-pixmap | Very easy to understand. Programs to analyze and write to this format are easily written. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| PSD | Photoshop Document | Adobe Systems | .psd, .psb, .pdb, .pdd |
image/psd, image/photoshop, image/x-photoshop | Used mainly for storing image manipulation & editing data. | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| PSP | Paint Shop Pro Document | Corel Corporation | .psp, .tub, .pspimage |
image/psp | It can only be opened in programs that support the format, such as Paint Shop Pro, The GIMP, etc. | ? | No | No | No | |
| PSX TIM | .tim | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | ||||||
| PSX TIM2 | Sony PlayStation Tim2 | Sony | .tm2, .str | Used by PlayStation2 | ? | No | No | |||
| PXA | .pxa | Used by Pixia | No | No | No | |||||
| QuickTime Image | Apple Inc. | .qtif, .qti, .qif | No | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||||
| Q0 | .q0 | No | No | No | ||||||
| Q4 | XLD4 | MAJYO | .q4 | No | No | No | ||||
| RAD | Gregory Ward Larson | .rad | Radiance | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | ||||
| RAF | Fujifilm RAW | Fujifilm | .raf | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes | ||||
| RGB | .rgb | Yes | No | No | ||||||
| RGBA | .rgba | Yes | No | No | ||||||
| RGBE | Gregory Ward Larson | .hdr | Radiance | No | No | No | ||||
| R3D | RED REDCODE RAW | Red | .r3d | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | ||||
| SAI | SYSTEMAX | .sai | Supported by PaintTool SAI | No | No | No | ||||
| SCT | Scitex Continuous Tone Picture | .sct | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | |||||
| SDA | Sun Microsystems | .sda | Supported by StarOffice Draw 3-5 | No | No | No | ||||
| SDD | Sun Microsystems | .sdd | Supported by StarOffice Draw 3-5 | No | No | No | ||||
| SFW | Seattle File Works image | .sfw | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | |||||
| SGB | Sun Microsystems | .sgb | Supported by StarOffice Graphics 2 | No | No | No | ||||
| SGI | Silicon Graphics Image | .sgi, .rgb, .rgba, .bw, .int, .inta, .icon |
Yes | Yes | No | |||||
| Shockwave Director | Adobe Systems | .dir, .dcr, .dxr, .fgd | application/x-director | Used by Adobe Shockwave. | No | No | No | |||
| SHAPE | Dia Stencil | SVG | .shape | Used by Dia. | No | No | No | |||
| SK | .sk | Supported by Skencil | No | No | No | |||||
| SketchUp Format | .skp, .skb | Supported by SketchUp | No | No | No | |||||
| SML | Kivio stencil | .sml | Supported by Kivio | No | No | No | ||||
| SRF | Sony RAW File | Sony | TIFF | .srf, .sr2 | No | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | |||
| SUN | Sun rasterfile | Sun Microsystems | .sun, .ras, .rs, .im1, .im8, .im24, .im32 |
Supported by GIMP | Yes | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | |||
| STX | SBIG CCD camera ST-x | .stx, .st4, .st5, .st6, .st7, .st8, .st9 |
No | No | No | |||||
| SView5 Graphics | Andreas Kleinert | .svg/.sgx | Used by SView5-Library/SDK | No | No | No | ||||
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics | World Wide Web Consortium | XML | .svg, .svgz (compressed) |
image/svg+xml | Scriptable vector image format; supported by major web browsers, occasionally via plug-in. | No | Yes | No | Yes (ReadOnly) |
| SWF | Shockwave Flash | Adobe Systems | .swf | application/x-shockwave-flash | Supported by many web browsers via plug-in. | No | Yes | Yes (ReadOnly) | ||
| SXD | OpenOffice.org 1.0 drawing format | .sxd | No | No | No | |||||
| TGA | Truevision Targa | Truevision Inc. | .tga, .tpic | image/tga | Used by many 3D rendering applications and 3d games. | Yes? | Yes | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format | Adobe Systems | .tiff, .tif | image/tiff | Document scanning and imaging format, also functions as a container. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| TIFF/EP | Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography | International Organization for Standardization | TIFF | .tiff, .tif | ? | ? | Yes | |||
| TIFF-FX | Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended | TIFF | .tiff, .tif | image/tiff-fx | ? | ? | Yes | |||
| Tiny Stuff | David Mumper | .tny, .tn1, .tn2, .tn3, .tn4, .tn5, tn6 |
an application on Atari ST | No | No | No | ||||
| TLG5 | .tlg | Used by KiriKiri | No | No | No | |||||
| TLG6 | .tlg | Used by KiriKiri | No | No | No | |||||
| UFO | Ulead File for Objects | .ufo | No | No | No | |||||
| XAML | Extensible Application Markup Language | Microsoft | XML | .xaml | application/xaml+xml | Used by Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight. | ? | No | No | ? |
| XAR | Xar | .xar | application/vnd.xara | No | No | No | ||||
| XBM | X BitMap | .xbm, .bm, .icon, .bitmap |
image/x-xbitmap | Used by many legacy Unix applications. | Yes | No | No | |||
| XCF | XCF, name derived from eXperimental Computing Facility | The GIMP Team | .xcf, .xcfbz2 (compressed), .xcfgz (compressed) |
application/x-gimp-image | Used by GIMP | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | No | ||
| XPM | X-Pixmap | .xpm, .pm | image/x-xpm | Used by many legacy Unix applications. | Yes | No | No | |||
| X3F | SIGMA RAW | SIGMA | .x3f | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | Yes (ReadOnly) | ||||
| XWD | .xwd, .x11 | Used by X Window System | Yes | No | No | |||||
| WinFax | Symantec | .wfx, fxs, fxo | No | No | No | |||||
| Windows bitmap | Windows bitmap | Microsoft | .bmp, .dib, .rle, .2bp (2bpp) |
image/x-bmp | Used by many 2D applications. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (ReadOnly) | |
| WBMP | Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format | WAP Forum | .wbmp, .wbm, .wbp | image/vnd.wap.wbmp | Yes | No | No | |||
| WordPerfect Graphics File | .wpg | Yes (ReadOnly) | No | ? | ||||||
| XYZ | RPG Maker image file | ASCII | .xyz | RPG Maker | No | No | No | No | ||
| YCbCr | .ycbcr | Yes | No | No | ||||||
| YCbCrA | .ycbcra | Yes | No | No | ||||||
| YUV | .yuv | Yes | No | No | ||||||
| ZDT | .zdt | Used by TECH Win | No | No | No |
Technical details
| Format | Compression algorithm | Raster / Vector | Color depth | Indexed color | Transparency | Metadata | Interlacing* | Multi-page | Animation | Layers | Color management | Extendable | HDR format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGP | RLE | Raster | 32 | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| AI | Lossy & Lossless | Vector & Raster | 1, 8, 24, 32 (multiple palettes ?) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No |
| BEF | Visual lossless and lossy compression based on JND metric | Raster | 32-bit floating point | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Not required | No | Yes |
| Windows bitmap | None, RLE, JPEG, PNG | Raster | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | Yes | Yes; 8b per-pixel Alpha channel for ARGB | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| CDR | Lossy & Lossless | Vector & Raster | 1, 8, 24, 32 (multiple palettes) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No |
| CPC | CPC | Raster | 1 | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes, via embedded dictionary | No |
| EXR | None, RLE, ZIP, Piz, PXR24, B44 | Raster | 16 - 128 (floating-point) | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GIF | LZW | Raster | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | Yes | Yes; 1b plane-only mask using color index | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes (GIF89a) | No |
| HD Photo | Lossy & Lossless bi-orthogonal transform | Raster | 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 128 (floating-point) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ILBM | Optional run-length encoding | Raster | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 64EHB, 128, 256 (8-bit), 4096 (HAM6 pseudo 12-bit), 4096 pure 12-bit, 262,144 (HAM8 pseudo 18-bit), 24-bit | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes, Palette-shifting |
No | No | Yes | No |
| IMA | Lossy and lossless original mutiresolution analysis transformation | Raster | 8-bit, 16-bit integer, 32-bit floating-point | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JPEG | Lossy & Lossless, DCT, RLE, Huffman predictive nearest neighbor | Raster | 8-bit (greyscale), 12-bit, 24-bit | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No (see unofficial JPEG-HDR) |
| JPEG 2000 | Lossy & Lossless (DWT) | Raster | 8, 16 (greyscale) Up to 48-bit color? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? | No |
| PCX | None, RLE | Raster | 1, 2, 4, 8, 24 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| PGF | Lossy & Lossless (DWT) | Raster | greyscale: 1, 8, 16, 31; color: 12, 16, 24, 32, 48 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No |
| PICT | None, RLE, QuickTime | Raster & Vector | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | ? | No? | No |
| Pixel | GZIP | Raster | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PLD | Optional ZIP, JPEG | Vector & Raster | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PNG | Lossless, DEFLATE | Raster | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 | Yes (1-8 bit modes) | Yes; 8b, 16b per-pixel Alpha channel; 8b for indexed | Yes | Yes, Adam7 algorithm | No | No (but see MNG and APNG) | No | Yes | Yes, via chunks | Yes, 48 and 64bit mode |
| PPM | None | Raster | Up to 16 | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| PSD | None, RLE | Raster & Vector | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 | Yes | Yes; 8b, 16b per-pixel Alpha channel | Yes | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No? | Yes |
| PSP | None | Raster & Vector | 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48 | Yes | Yes; 8b, 16b per-pixel Alpha channel | Yes | No | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | No |
| SVG | None, lossless gzip | Vector | 24, 32 | No | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes (1.2)[1] | No[2] | Yes | Yes[3] | Yes, XML based | N/A |
| TGA | None, RLE, and other | Raster | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No |
| TIFF | None, LZW, RLE, ZIP, and other | Raster & Vector | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | Yes (1-8 bit modes) | Yes | Yes | Yes, for JPEG compression | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, via tags | Yes, TIFF float |
| XAML | None | Vector | 32, 64 | No | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| XCF | None, lossless (gzip, bzip2) | Raster & Vector | 8, 24, 32 | Yes | Yes | ? | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Format | Compression algorithm | Raster / Vector | Color depth | Indexed color | Transparency | Metadata | Interlacing* | Multi-page | Animation | Layers | Color management | Extendable | HDR format |
Notes and references
- ^ Multiple pages (SVG 1.2)
- ^ SMIL/SVG supports animation
- ^ SVG 1.1 color profile descriptions
- Note: Interlacing is meant only for graphics file formats used over the web.
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