Comparison of graphics file formats
This is a comparison of image file formats.
General[]
Ownership of the format and related information.
Format | Full name | Owner | based on | File extension | MIME type | Application | Patented |
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Abc | Advanced Bitonal Compression | LEAD Technologies | .abc | Bitonal document and check images.[1] | Yes | ||
ADRG | ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | .adrg | |||||
AdobeResource | Adobe Systems | TIFF? | |||||
ADRI | ARC Digitized Raster Images | .adri | |||||
AF Design | Affinity Designer | Serif Europe | .afdesign | Vector graphics document for Affinity Designer. Can also be opened by Affinity Photo. | |||
AF Photo | Affinity Photo | Serif Europe | .afphoto | Raster graphics document for Affinity Photo. Can also be opened by Affinity Designer. | |||
AI | Adobe Illustrator Document | Adobe Systems | .ai | application/illustrator, application/postscript |
Adobe Illustrator files are editable using programs that support the format, such as Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDRAW, etc. | Yes | |
Alias Pix image | .pix, .matte, .mask, .alpha, .als |
Supported by GIMP | |||||
AMI | .ami | Supported by Amica Paint | |||||
ANI | ANI file format | Microsoft | RIFF | .ani | Used by Microsoft Windows | ||
ANIM | Electronic Arts and Commodore Amiga | IFF | .iff, .anim | video/x-anim | |||
APNG | Animated Portable Network Graphics | Mozilla | PNG | .png | image/png | Gecko 1.9 and Opera | No |
Apple Icon Image | Apple Inc. | .icns | Used by macOS | ||||
APX | .apx | Supported by Ebuyer Photo Paint | |||||
ART | AOL | .art | |||||
ART | PFS: 1st Publisher clip art | .art | |||||
ARTB | Artboard file format | Mapdiva, LLC | .artb | Vector image format; Artboard drawing files are editable using programs that support the format, such as Artboard and Ortelius | |||
ASCII art | .txt, .ansi, .text | text/vnd.ascii-art | Supported by GIMP | ||||
Authorware map | Adobe Systems | .aam | application/x-authorware-map | ||||
Authorware seg | Adobe Systems | .aas | application/x-authorware-seg | ||||
Authorware bin | Adobe Systems | .aab, .x32, .u32, .vox |
application/x-authorware-bin | ||||
AutoCAD DXF | Drawing Interchange Format | Autodesk | .dxf | image/vnd.dxf | |||
AWD | .awd | image/awd | Used by PhotoPhilia | ||||
ARW | Sony Alpha RAW | Sony | TIFF | .arw | |||
BAY | Casio RAW | Casio | .bay | ||||
BigTIFF | TIFF | .btf, .tiff, .tif | image/tiff | ||||
BMP | raw-data unencoded or encoded bitmap | simple colour image format, far older than Microsoft; some .bmp encoding formats developed/owned by Microsoft | .bmp, .dib, .rle, .2bp (2bpp) |
image/x-bmp | Used by many 2D applications. | No | |
bmp compressor | Bit Map Compressor | .hpc | |||||
BLEND | resource archive (3D meshes, textures, auxiliary data) | .blend | native data package format of Blender | ||||
BPG | Better Portable Graphics | Fabrice Bellard | HEVC | .bpg | Suggestion to replace JPEG, JavaScript decoder available[2] | Yes | |
BRK | Brooktrout Fax | .brk | |||||
BSAVE | BSAVE Image | .BSV | Used by IBM PC. | ||||
CAM | Casio CAM | Casio | JPEG | .cam | |||
CADRG | Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | .cadrg | |||||
CAL | CALS raster file format | .cal, .cals, .ras, .dcl | |||||
Capture One RAW | Phase One | .cap | |||||
CIFF | Camera Image File Format | Canon | .crw, .ciff | ||||
CR2 | Canon RAW 2 | Canon | TIFF | .cr2 | |||
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 | |
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. | |||
CIN | Cineon | .cin | image/cineon | ||||
Corel Paint Shop Pro Pattern | .pat | Supported by Corel Paint Shop Pro | |||||
CPC | Cartesian Perceptual Compression | Cartesian Products, Inc. | .cpc, .cpi | image/cpi | Highly compressed raster imaging format. | Yes | |
CPKT | APP5-CPKT Format | JPEG | .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg | image/jpeg | Used by PROSERPINE. | ||
CPT | Corel Photo-Paint Image | .cpt | Variant of TIFF up to and including version 6.0; proprietary as of 7.0 (1997) | ||||
Crack Art | Detlef Röttger & Jan Borchers | .ca1, .ca2, .ca3 | An application on Atari ST | ||||
CUT | .cut | Used by DSHELL. | |||||
CMYK | .cmyk | ||||||
CMYKA | .cmyka | ||||||
DCS | Kodak DCS Pro RAW | Kodak | .dcs | ||||
DCR | Digital Camera Raw | Kodak | TIFF | .dcr | |||
DDS | DirectDraw Surface | Microsoft | .dds | ||||
Degas | Design & Entertainment Graphic Arts System | Integral Solutions | .pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3 |
An application on Atari ST | |||
DNG | Digital Negative | Adobe Systems | compatible with ISO 12234-2, TIFF/EP[3] |
.dng | A raw image format suitable as an archival format and as the native raw format of digital cameras[4] | No: no known intellectual property encumbrances or license requirements[5] | |
DIA | Dia Drawing | XML | .dia | Used by Dia | |||
DICOM | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine | National Electrical Manufacturers Association | .dcm, .dicom | application/dicom[6] | Numerous biomedical imaging applications[6] (e.g. OsiriX, XMedCon), some general bitmap graphics applications (e.g. GIMP, Photoshop) | ||
DjVu | DjVu | AT&T Research | .djvu, .djv | image/vnd.djvu | |||
Doodle | .doo | An application on Atari ST | |||||
DPX | Digital Picture eXchange file format | .dpx | image/dpx | ||||
DRF | Kodak Pro Back RAW | Kodak | .drf | ||||
Dr. Halo | .cut | ||||||
Encapsulated PostScript | page description/scripting language (see PostScript) | Adobe | .epi, .eps, .eps2, .eps3, .epsf, .epsi, .ept |
application/postscript | printing/publishing industry standard format | ||
ECW | Enhanced Compressed Wavelet | ERDAS | .ecw | Wavelet image format used primarily with geo-referenced aerial and satellite imagery | Yes | ||
EDG | EDGE2 Original Format | TAKABO | .edg | Used by EDGE2 | |||
EGI | Exclusive Graphics Format | .egi | |||||
EMF | Enhanced Metafile Format | Microsoft | .emf, .emz | Microsoft Office | |||
EMF+ | Enhanced Metafile Format Plus Extensions | Microsoft | .emf, .emz | ||||
ERF | EPSON RAW | EPSON | TIFF | .erf | |||
ERI | Entis Rasterized Image format | .eri | |||||
Exif | Exchangeable Image File Format | .exif | |||||
EVA | Extended Vector Animation | Sharp Corporation | .eva | application/x-eva | |||
EXR | OpenEXR | ILM | .exr | image/exr | Used in film effects for 3d rendering and hdr images. | ? | |
Farbfeld | Laslo Hunhold | .ff | Very simple lossless bitmap format used for image processing. | No | |||
FIF | Fractal Image Format | .fif | |||||
FIG | FIG format | .fig | application/x-xfig | Supported by Xfig | |||
FITS | Flexible Image Transport System | .fit, .fits | Scientific (esp. astronomical) data acquisition | ||||
FLA | Flash Source File | .fla | |||||
FLIC | Autodesk | .fli, .flc, .flx, .flh, .flt | Supported by GIMP | ||||
FLIF | Free Lossless Image Format | .flif, .flf | General-purpose lossless image compression, superior compression. | No | |||
FLW | Kivio Document | .flw | Supported by Kivio | ||||
FPX | FlashPix (1.0.2) | .fpx | image/vnd.fpx | ||||
FreeHand | Adobe Systems | .fh4, .fh5, .fh7, .fh8, .fhc, .fh |
image/x-freehand | ||||
FutureSplash | Adobe Systems | .spl | application/futuresplash | ||||
FXT | 3DFX | .fxt | |||||
GEGL composition | XML | .xml | application/xml | Used by GEGL | |||
Gerber Format | The Gerber Format Specification | Printable ASCII | .gbr | application/vnd.gerber | Printed Circuit Board or PCB software | No | |
GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | CompuServe, Unisys (compression algorithm) |
.gif, .gfa, .giff | image/gif | Supported by most web browsers. Supports transparency and animation. | Expired | |
GIMP brush | The GIMP Team | .gbr | Supported by GIMP | ||||
GIMP compressed XJT image | The GIMP Team | JPEG, tar | .xjt, .xjtgz (compressed), .xjtbz2 (compressed) |
None. lossy format, not suitable for editing |
Supported by GIMP | ||
GIH | Gimp image hose | The GIMP Team | .gih | Supported by GIMP | |||
GIMP patterns | The GIMP Team | .pat | Supported by GIMP | ||||
GRA | .gra | Used by QSV and QLD. | |||||
G3 Fax | .g3 | Supported by GIMP | |||||
Hasselblad 3FR RAW | TIFF | .3fr | |||||
Hasselblad/Imacon FFF | .fff | ||||||
HEIF | High Efficiency Image Format | Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) | .heif, .heic | image/heif, image/heic, image/heic-sequence, image/heif-sequence |
Yes | ||
HDRi | TIFF | .tif, .tiff | image/tiff | ||||
HG | Hyper Graphic Press | .hg | Supported by some old Japanese applications. | ||||
ICER | NASA Mars Rovers | ||||||
IIQ RAW | Intelligent Image Quality RAW | Phase One | .iiq | ||||
IMA | .ima | .ima team | .ima | Format for photographic images with HDR encoding. | No | ||
IMG (GEM Paint) | .img | Supported by GEM Paint | |||||
IMG (ERDAS IMAGINE) | ERDAS IMAGINE | ERDAS | Hierarchical File Architecture (HFA) |
.img | Image format used primarily with geo-referenced imagery, thematic grid data, and elevation grid data. | Yes | |
im4 | Masahide Hirabayashi | .im4 | |||||
Inkscape SVG | The Inkscape Team | SVG | .svg, .svgz | image/svg+xml | Used by Inkscape | ||
ICO | ICO file format | Microsoft | .ico, .cur | image/vnd.Microsoft.icon, image/x-icon |
Used by Microsoft Windows and web browsers as favicon | ||
ICS | Image Cytometry Standard | .ics, .ids | |||||
IGES | Initial Graphics Exchange Specification | .igs | image/iges | CAD/CAM interoperability | 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 |
IPTC/NAA | IPTC/NAA | TIFF | |||||
JBIG | Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group | .jbig, .bie, .jbg | |||||
JBIG2 | Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group | ||||||
JNG | JPEG Network Graphics | .jng | image/x-jng | No | |||
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. | Expired see also Forgent#JPEG | |
JPEG 2000 | Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000 | Joint Photographic Experts Group | .jp2, .j2c, .jpc, .j2k, .jpx |
image/jp2 | Wavelet lossy and lossless format for photographic images. | Yes no licence costs for part 1 | |
JPEG-LS | Joint Photographic Experts Group | .jls | |||||
JPEG-HDR | Dolby Laboratories/BrightSide Technologies | JPEG | HDR format based on RGBE floating-point encoding and backward-compatible extensions to JFIF format; included in JPEG XT Part 2. | ||||
JPEG XL | Joint Photographic Experts Group | , FUIF (FLIF) | .jxl | image/jxl | General-purpose raster format with high-performance lossy and lossless compression, including lossless JPEG transcoding. | No | |
JPEG XT | Joint Photographic Experts Group | Backwards-compatible extension of the JPEG format for high bit depth and floating point HDR encoding of lossy and lossless images | |||||
JPEG XR / HD Photo | JPEG XR / HD Photo | Microsoft | .wdp, .hdp, .jxr | image/vnd.ms-photo | TIFF-like container format with HDR encoding for photographic images | Yes (royalty-free) | |
J6I | RICOH | JPEG | .j6i | Used by RICOH DC-1/2 | |||
KDC | Kodak DC40/DC50 RAW | Kodak | TIFF | .kdc | |||
KOA | .koa, .gg (compressed) |
Supported by Koala Paint | |||||
KIFF | Kt Interchange File Format | .kif, .kiff | |||||
KISS CEL | .cel | Supported by GIMP | |||||
Kodak TIFF extensions | Kodak | TIFF | .tif | ||||
Kodak YCC | Kodak | .pcd | |||||
KQP | Minolta | JPEG | .kqp | ||||
K25 | Kodak DC25 RAW | Kodak | TIFF | .k25 | |||
Leaf Mosaic RAW | TIFF | .mos | |||||
LightStream Picture | .lsp | ||||||
Logluv TIFF | Greg Ward | TIFF | Supported by Libtiff | ||||
Mac Paint | .pnt, .mac | ||||||
MDC | Minolta RD175 Format | Minolta | .mdc | ||||
MET | OS/2 Metafile Format | .met | Supported by SAS/GRAPH | ||||
MNG | Multiple-image Network Graphics | PNG | .mng | video/x-mng | No | ||
MO:DCA | MO:DCA | IBM | .mda, .ica, .mmr, .afp |
image | IBM's Content Manager and Image Plus | Yes | |
MSP | Microsoft Paint | Microsoft | .msp | ||||
MYD | Myd format | .myd | |||||
MYV | Myv vector format | .myv | |||||
NEF | Nikon RAW | Nikon | TIFF | .nef | |||
MEF | Mamiya RAW | Mamiya | TIFF | .mef | |||
Neochrome | Dave Staugas | .neo | An application on Atari ST | ||||
MAG | MAKIchan Graphic loader | Woody-Rinn | .mag | Used by many old Japanese applications. | |||
MAKI | MAKIchan net format | Woody-Rinn | .mki | ||||
MIFF | Magick image file format | ImageMagick Studio | .miff | Supported by ImageMagick | |||
MSA | Misachan File | Hirohumi Iguchi | .msa | Supported by old Japanese applications | |||
MSL | Magick Scripting Language | ImageMagick Studio | .msl | Supported by ImageMagick | |||
MVG | Magick Vector Graphics | ImageMagick Studio | .mvg | Supported by ImageMagick | |||
MPC | Magick Persistent Cache image file format | ImageMagick Studio | .mpc | Supported by ImageMagick | |||
MRW | Minolta RAW | Minolta | .mrw | ||||
NSK-TIFF | NSK-TIFF | Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (日本新聞協会) | TIFF | ||||
OAZ | OAZ Fax | Oaz Communications | .oaz | Used by NetFax Manager | |||
ODG | OpenDocument drawing | .odg | Supported by Collabora Online Draw, LibreOffice Draw | No | |||
ORA | OpenRaster | freedesktop.org | OpenDocument XML |
.ora | DrawPile, GIMP, Krita, MyPaint, Nathive, Pinta | No | |
ORF | Olympus RAW | Olympus | TIFF | .orf | |||
ORTL | Ortelius file format | Mapdiva, LLC | .ortl | Vector image/map format; used by Ortelius | |||
PAM | portable arbitrary map file format | .pam | image/x-portable-arbitrarymap | No | |||
Panasonic RAW | Panasonic | TIFF | .raw, .rw2 | ||||
PCIF | Polyomino Compressed Image Format | .pcf | |||||
PhaseOne P25/P30/P45 RAW | Phase One | .tif, .tiff | |||||
PictureGear Pocket Image | .prc | ||||||
PBM | Portable Bitmap File Format | ASCII | .pbm | image/x-portable-bitmap | No | ||
PCD | Kodak ImagePac Photo CD | Kodak | .pcd | image/jpcd | |||
PCF | Pixel Coordination Format | .pcf | image/pcf | ||||
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. | ? | |
Portable Document Format | Adobe Systems | .pdf, .epdf | application/pdf | ||||
PDN | Paint.NET Image | dotPDN LLC | .pdn | Preferred and supported by Paint.NET | |||
PEF | PENTAX RAW | PENTAX | TIFF | .pef | |||
PGF | Progressive Graphics File | xeraina GmbH | .pgf | Photographic images, eventual replacement for JPEG. | No | ||
PGM | Portable Graymap File Format | ASCII | .pgm | image/x-portable-graymap | No | ||
PGML | Precision Graphics Markup Language | Adobe Systems, IBM, Netscape, Sun Microsystems |
No | ||||
Photochrome | .pcs | ||||||
PNM | Portable Anymap File Format | ASCII | .pnm | image/x-portable-anymap | No | ||
PTX | Pentax RAW Bitmap Graphic | Pentax | .ptx | ||||
Pi | Yanagisawa | .pi | Used by some old Japanese applications. | ||||
PIC | Yanagisawa PIC | Yanagisawa | .pic | Used by many old Japanese applications. | |||
PIC | DoGA PIC | Project Team DoGA | .pic | Used by DoGA CGA System. | |||
PICT | Macintosh PICT Format | Apple Inc. | .pict, .pic, .pct, .pct1, .pct2 |
image/pict | Metafile for Classic Mac OS, not meant for print publishing. | Likely expired | |
PICtor | John Bridges, Doug Wolfgram | .pic | Supported by PCPaint | ||||
PIC2 | Yanagisawa | .p2 | Supported by some old Japanese applications. | ||||
PLD | PhotoLine Document | Computerinsel GmbH | .pld | application/pld | Native format of the PhotoLine image editing program. | ? | |
PMP | Sony | JPEG | .pmp | Used by Sony Cyber-Shot | |||
PNG | Portable Network Graphics | World Wide Web Consortium | .png | image/png | W3C endorsed replacement for GIF. Supported by most web browsers. | No | |
PostScript | page description/scripting language, levels 1–3 | Adobe | .ps, .ps2, .ps3 | printing/publishing industry standard format | |||
PPM | Portable Pixmap File Format | ASCII | .ppm | image/x-portable-pixmap | Very easy to understand. Programs to analyze and write to this format are easily written. | No | |
PSD | Photoshop Document | Adobe Systems | .psd, .psb, .pdb, .pdd |
image/vnd.adobe.photoshop[7] | Used mainly for storing image manipulation & editing data. | Yes | |
PSP | Paint Shop Pro Document | Corel Corporation | .psp, .tub, .pspimage |
image/x-psp | Supported by Paint Shop Pro, GIMP | ? | |
PSX TIM | .tim | ||||||
PSX TIM2 | Sony PlayStation Tim2 | Sony | .tm2, .str | Used by PlayStation 2 | |||
PXA | .pxa | Used by Pixia | |||||
QuickTime Image | Apple Inc. | .qtif, .qti, .qif | |||||
Q0 | .q0 | ||||||
Q4 | XLD4 | MAJYO | .q4 | ||||
RAD | Gregory Ward Larson | .rad | Radiance | ||||
RAF | Fujifilm RAW | Fujifilm | .raf | ||||
RGB | image/colourmap data in RGB format | .rgb | |||||
RGBA | image/colourmap data in RGB format, with Alpha channel | .rgba | |||||
RGBE | Gregory Ward Larson | .hdr | image/vnd.radiance | Radiance, most HDR imaging software | |||
RHIF | Rhapsoft Image Format | Romain Piveteau | SQLite | .rhif | file format | ||
R3D | RED REDCODE RAW | Red | .r3d | ||||
SAI | SYSTEMAX | .sai | Supported by PaintTool SAI | ||||
SCT | Scitex Continuous Tone Picture | .sct | |||||
SDA | Sun Microsystems | .sda | Supported by StarOffice Draw 3–5 | ||||
SDD | Sun Microsystems | .sdd | Supported by StarOffice Draw 3–5 | ||||
SFW | Seattle File Works image | Seattle File Works | JPEG (JFIF) | .sfw, .pwp | JPEG-converters sfwjpg and pwpjpg for Unix/Linux and Windows | ||
SGB | Sun Microsystems | .sgb | Supported by StarOffice Graphics 2 | ||||
SGI | Silicon Graphics Image | .sgi, .rgb, .rgba, .bw, .int, .inta, .icon |
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Shockwave Director | Adobe Systems | .dir, .dcr, .dxr, .fgd | application/x-director | Used by Adobe Shockwave. | |||
SHAPE | Dia Stencil | SVG | .shape | Used by Dia. | |||
SK | .sk | Supported by Skencil | |||||
SketchUp Format | .skp, .skb | Supported by SketchUp | |||||
SML | Kivio stencil | .sml | Supported by Kivio | ||||
SRF | Sony RAW File | Sony | TIFF | .srf, .sr2 | |||
SUN | Sun rasterfile | Sun Microsystems | .sun, .ras, .rs, .im1, .im8, .im24, .im32 |
Supported by GIMP | |||
STX | SBIG CCD camera ST-x | .stx, .st4, .st5, .st6, .st7, .st8, .st9 |
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SView5 Graphics | Andreas Kleinert | .svg/.sgx | Used by SView5-Library/SDK | ||||
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 |
SWF | Shockwave Flash | Adobe Systems | .swf | application/x-shockwave-flash | Supported by many web browsers via plug-in. | ||
SXD | OpenOffice.org 1.0 drawing format | .sxd | |||||
TGA | Truevision Targa | Truevision Inc. | .tga, .tpic | image/tga | Used by many 3D rendering applications and 3d videogames for storing textures. | Yes? | |
TIFF | Tagged Image File Format | Adobe Systems | .tiff, .tif | image/tiff | Document scanning and imaging format, also functions as a container. | No | |
TIFF/EP | Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography | International Organization for Standardization | TIFF | .tiff, .tif | |||
TIFF-FX | Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended | TIFF | .tiff, .tif | image/tiff-fx | |||
Tiny Stuff | David Mumper | .tny, .tn1, .tn2, .tn3, .tn4, .tn5, tn6 |
An application on Atari ST | ||||
TLG5 | .tlg | Used by KiriKiri | |||||
TLG6 | .tlg | Used by KiriKiri | |||||
UFO | Ulead File for Objects | .ufo | |||||
VML | Vector Markup Language | Microsoft | XML | .htm, .html | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.vmlDrawing | Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office | No |
WBMP | Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format | Open Mobile Alliance (formerly WAP Forum) | .wbmp, .wbm, .wbp | image/vnd.wap.wbmp | Used in WAP-pages | No | |
WebP | WebP image format | .webp | image/webp | Provides an alternative to JPEG, PNG and GIF with superior compression | Yes (royalty-free) | ||
WinFax | Symantec | .wfx, fxs, fxo | |||||
WMF | Windows Metafile Format | Microsoft | .wmf, .wmz | ||||
WordPerfect Graphics File | .wpg | ||||||
XAML | Extensible Application Markup Language | Microsoft | XML | .xaml | application/xaml+xml | Used by Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight. | ? |
XAR | Xar | Xara | Xar (graphics) | .xar | application/vnd.xara | Used by Xara Photo & Graphic Designer | No |
XBM | X BitMap, colour variant of original black-and-white bitmap (bmp) format | .xbm, .bm, .icon, .bitmap |
image/x-xbitmap | Used by many legacy Unix applications. | |||
XCF | XCF, name derived from eXperimental Computing Facility | The GIMP Team | .xcf, .xcfbz2 (compressed), .xcfgz (compressed) |
application/x-gimp-image | Used by GIMP | ||
XPM | X-Pixmap | .xpm, .pm | image/x-xpm | Used by many legacy Unix applications. | |||
X3F | SIGMA RAW | SIGMA | .x3f | ||||
XWD | xwud X11 window dumper/undumper screenshot image | .xwd, .x11 | Used by X Window System | ||||
XYZ | RPG Maker image file | ASCII | .xyz | RPG Maker | No | ||
YCbCr | .ycbcr | ||||||
YCbCrA | .ycbcra | ||||||
YUV | .yuv | ||||||
ZDT | .zdt | Used by TECH Win | |||||
Format | Full name | Owner | based Format | File extension | MIME type | Application | Patented |
Technical details[]
Format | Compression algorithm |
Raster/ vector |
Color depth | Indexed color | Transparency | Metadata | Interlacing | Multi-page | Animation[8] | Layers | Color management | Extendable | HDR format |
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AI | Lossy and lossless | Both | 1, 8, 24, and 32 (possibly with multiple palettes) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No |
BMP | None, RLE, JPEG, and PNG | Raster | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, and 64 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
BPG | HEVC, Lossy and lossless | Raster | 8 to 14 bits per channel | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
CDR | Lossy and lossless | Both | 1, 8, 24,and 32 (multiple palettes) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No |
CPC | CPC | Raster | 1 | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes, via embedded dictionary | No |
EPS | None, LZW, Deflate, RLE, DCT | Both | Device specific | No | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
EXR | None, RLE, ZIP, Piz, PXR24, and B44, B44A, DWAA, DWAB | Raster | 16–128 (floating-point) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Farbfeld | None | Raster | 64 (16-bits-per-channel) | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
FLIF | Lossless, MANIAC entropy coding | Raster | 1 to 16 bits per channel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, Adam∞ | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, via chunks | Yes, with suitable color profile |
GIF | LZW | Raster | Indexed (1bpc to 8bpc) and grayscale (8bpc) | Yes | Yes; 1bpp plane-only mask using color index | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes (GIF89a) | No |
HD Photo / JPEG XR | Lossy and lossless bi-orthogonal transform | Raster | 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, and 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, 64 EHB, 128, 256 (8-bit), 4,096 (HAM6 pseudo 12-bit), 4,096 pure 12-bit, 262, 144 (HAM8 pseudo 18-bit), and 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 (and partly lossless), DCT, RLE, and Huffman predictive nearest neighbor | Raster | 8-bit (greyscale), 12-bit, and 24-bit | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No (see unofficial JPEG-HDR) |
JPEG 2000 | Lossy and lossless (DWT) | Raster | 8 and 16 (greyscale) with possibly color up to 48-bit | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Unknown | No |
JPEG XL | Lossy and lossless (VarDCT mode, Modular mode) | Raster | up to 32 bits per channel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
KRA | None | Both | grayscale, RGB, XYZ (8bpc, 16bpc, float16bpc, float32bpc), CMYK, L*a*b* and YCbCr (8bpc, 16bpc, float32bpc) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ORA | Lossless | Both | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
PAM | None | Raster | Up to 16 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
PCX | None, RLE | Raster | 1, 2, 4, 8, 24 and 32 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
PGF | Lossy and lossless (DWT) | Raster | grayscale: 1, 8, 16, 31; RGB: 12, 16, 24, 32, and 48 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No |
PICT | None, RLE, and QuickTime | Both | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | No | No | Unknown | No? | No |
PLD | Optional ZIP, JPEG | Both | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64 | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
PNG | Lossless and deflate | Raster | bitmap (1bpc), indexed (8bpc), grayscale and RGB (8bpc, 16bpc) | Yes | Yes; indexed, grayscale and RGB | Yes | Yes, Adam7 algorithm | No | No (but see MNG and APNG) | No | Yes | Yes, via chunks | No, see discussion |
PPM | None | Raster | Up to 16 | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
PSD and PSB | None and RLE | Both | bitmap (1bpc), duotone, indexed (8bpc), grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Lab and multichannel (8bpc, 16bpc, 32bpc) | Yes | Yes; indexed, grayscale, RGB, CMYK and Lab | Yes | N/A | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No? | Yes |
PSP | None | Both | 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, and 48 | Yes | Yes; 8b and 16b per-pixel alpha channel | Yes | No | Unknown | No | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | No |
SVG | None and lossless gzip | Vector[9] | RGB (8bpc) | No | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes (1.2 draft)[10] | Yes (SMIL/SVG) | Yes | Yes[11] | Yes, XML based | N/A |
TGA | None, RLE, and other | Raster | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No |
TIFF | None, LZW, RLE, ZIP, and other | Both | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 | Yes (1–8 bit modes) | Yes | Yes | Yes, for JPEG compression | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, via tags | Yes, TIFF float |
WebP | Lossy and lossless | Raster | YUV420P (12bpp), YUVA420P (20bpp) and RGB (8bpc) | Internally in lossless mode, but not user-accessible[12][13] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
XAML | None | Vector | 32 and 64 | No | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
XCF | None and lossless (gzip, bzip2 and xz) | Both | indexed (8bpc), grayscale and RGB (8bpc, 16bpc, float16bpc, 32bpc, float32bpc, float64bpc) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Format | Compression algorithm | Raster/ vector |
Color depth | Indexed color | Transparency | Metadata | Interlacing | Multi-page | Animation | Layers | Color management | Extendable | HDR format |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "ABC Image Compression SDK Technology - LEADTOOLS". www.leadtools.com.
- ^ "BPG Image format". bellard.org.
- ^ Adobe: DNG Specification
- ^ Adobe: Introducing the Digital Negative Specification: Information for manufacturers
- ^ Adobe Labs: CinemaDNG (last bullet point)
- ^ a b RFC 3240
- ^ "vnd.adobe.photoshop". Retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ^ Animations are often encoded as video.
- ^ Supports raster data embedding with the use of Base64
- ^ "Multiple pages (SVG 1.2)". www.w3.org.
- ^ "Removed: Color — SVG 2". www.w3.org.
- ^ "Issue 437: allow palette extraction from indexed lossless images". WebP issue tracker. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ "Lossless Bitstream Specification, section Color Indexing Transform". WebP official reference at Google Developers. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
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