Comparison of graphics file formats
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Ownership of the format and related information.| Format | Full name | Owner | Based Format | File extension | MIME MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support:* Text in character sets other than ASCII* Non-text attachments* Message bodies with multiple parts... type |
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| Abc | Advanced Bitonal Compression | LEAD Technologies | .abc | Bitonal document and check images. | |||
| ADRG | ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | .adrg | |||||
| AdobeResource | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
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| ADRI | ARC Digitized Raster Images | .adri | |||||
| AGP | ArtGem Project | RL Vision | .agp | Preferred graphics format when working with ArtGem | |||
| AI Adobe Illustrator Artwork Adobe Illustrator Artwork is a proprietary file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing single-page vector-based drawings in either the EPS or PDF formats... |
Adobe Illustrator Document | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.ai | application/Illustrator, application/postscript | Adobe Illustrator files are editable using programs that support the format, such as Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDRAW, etc. | ||
| Alias Pix image | .pix, .matte, .mask, .alpha, .als |
Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| AMI | .ami | Supported by Amica Paint | |||||
| ANI ANI (file format) The ANI file format is a graphics file format used for animated mouse cursors on the Microsoft Windows operating system.The format is based on the Microsoft RIFF file format, which is used as a container for storing the individual frames of the animation.- File structure :Animated cursors contain... |
ANI file format | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
RIFF | .ani | Used by Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
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| ANIM ANIM ANIM is a file format, used to store digital movies and computer generated animations , and is a variation of the ILBM format, which is a subformat of Interchange File Format.-Anim FileTypes:... |
Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers... and Commodore Amiga |
IFF Interchange File Format Interchange File Format , is a generic container file format originally introduced by the Electronic Arts company in 1985 in order to ease transfer of data between software produced by different companies.... |
.iff, .anim | video/x-anim | |||
| APNG APNG The Animated Portable Network Graphics file format is an unofficial extension to the Portable Network Graphics specification. It allows for animated PNG files that work similarly to animated GIF files, while supporting 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency not available for GIFs... |
Animated Portable Network Graphics | Mozilla Mozilla Mozilla is a term used in a number of ways in relation to the Mozilla.org project and the Mozilla Foundation, their defunct commercial predecessor Netscape Communications Corporation, and their related application software.... |
PNG | .png | image/png | 1.9 Gecko (layout engine) Gecko is a free and open source layout engine used in many applications developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation , as well as in many other open source software projects.... and Opera Opera (web browser) Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent,... |
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| Apple Icon Image Apple Icon Image The Apple Icon Image format is the icon format used in Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X. It supports icons of 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512 pixels, with both 1- and 8-bit alpha channels and multiple image states... |
Apple Inc. | .icns | Used by Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
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| APX | .apx | Supported by Ebuyer Photo Paint | |||||
| ART ART image file format ART is a proprietary image file format used mostly by the America Online service and client software.- Technical details :The ART format holds a single still image that has been highly compressed. The format was designed to facilitate the quick downloading of images, among other things... |
AOL AOL AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services... |
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| ART | PFS: 1st Publisher clip art | .art | |||||
| ASCII art ASCII art ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters... |
.txt, .ansi, .text | text/plain | Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| Authorware map | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.aam | application/x-authorware-map | ||||
| Authorware seg | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.aas | application/x-authorware-seg | ||||
| Authorware bin | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.aab, .x32, .u32, .vox |
application/x-authorware-bin | ||||
| AutoCAD DXF AutoCAD DXF AutoCAD DXF is a CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs.... |
Drawing Interchange Format | Autodesk Autodesk Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries. The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of the company's... |
.dxf | image/vnd.dxf | |||
| AWD | .awd | image/awd | Used by PhotoPhilia | ||||
| ARW RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Sony Alpha RAW | Sony Sony , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues.... |
TIFF | .arw | |||
| BAY RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Casio RAW | Casio Casio is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its electronic products, such as calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches... |
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| BEF BEF (image format) BEF is an HDR image format developed by Unified Color. It is supported in HDR PhotoStudio, an advanced HDR imaging application, as well as via an Adobe Photoshop image format plug-in... |
Unified Color BEF | Unified Color | TIFF | .bef | HDR PhotoStudio HDR PhotoStudio HDR PhotoStudio is an advanced HDR digital imaging software application developed by Unified Color for Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 and Apple's Mac OS X... |
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| BigTIFF | TIFF | .btf, .tiff, .tif | image/tiff | ||||
| BMF | Corel Corel Corel Corporation from the abbreviation is a computer software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that specializes in graphics processing, similar to Adobe Systems... |
.bmf | Used by Corel Clipart Gallery apps and any BMF image utility | ||||
| BMP | Windows bitmap | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
.bmp, .dib, .rle, .2bp (2bpp) |
image/x-bmp | Used by many 2D applications. | ||
| bmp compressor | Bit Map Compressor | .hpc | |||||
| BLEND | .blend | Supported by Blender Blender (software) Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. The current release version is 2.60, and was released on October 19, 2011... |
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| BRK | Brooktrout Fax | .brk | |||||
| BSAVE BSAVE (graphics image format) A BSAVE Image as it is referenced in a graphics program is an image file format created usually by saving raw video memory to disk .... |
BSAVE Image | .BSV | Used by IBM PC IBM PC The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981... . |
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| CAM | Casio CAM | Casio Casio is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its electronic products, such as calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches... |
JPEG | .cam | |||
| CADRG | Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | .cadrg | |||||
| CAL CALS Raster file format The CALS Raster file format is a standard for the interchange of graphics data. It was developed as part of the CALS DOD initiative. It defines a standard for encoding and compression of raster image data.-References:... |
CALS raster file format | .cal, .cals, .ras, .dcl | |||||
| Capture One RAW | Phase One | .cap | |||||
| CIFF Camera Image File Format In digital photography, the Camera Image File Format file format is a raw image format designed by Canon, and also used as a container format to store metadata in APP0 of JPEG images. Its specification was released on February 12, 1997.... |
Camera Image File Format | Canon | .crw, .ciff | ||||
| CR2 RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Canon RAW 2 | Canon | TIFF | .cr2 | |||
| CDR CorelDRAW CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite... |
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. | ||
| CGM Computer Graphics Metafile Computer Graphics Metafile is a free and open international standard file format for 2D vector graphics, raster graphics, and text, and is defined by ISO/IEC 8632.-Overview:... |
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 Cineon System was a computer based system, integrating a film scanner and recorder hardware, digital software for compositing and effects, image restoration, color management and the development of a proprietary file format designed by Kodak. These components were created to support the work flow... |
Cineon | .cin | image/cineon | ||||
| Corel Paint Shop Pro Pattern | .pat | Supported by Corel Paint Shop Pro | |||||
| CPC Cartesian Perceptual Compression Cartesian Perceptual Compression is a proprietary image file format. It was designed for high compression of black-and-white raster Document Imaging for archival scans.... |
Cartesian Perceptual Compression | Cartesian Products, Inc. | .cpc, .cpi | image/cpi | Highly compressed raster imaging format. | ||
| CPKT | APP5-CPKT Format | JPEG | .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg | image/jpeg | Used by PROSERPINE. | ||
| CPT | Corel Photo-Paint Image | .cpt | |||||
| Crack Art | Detlef Röttger & Jan Borchers | .ca1, .ca2, .ca3 | An application on Atari ST Atari ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals... |
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| CUT | .cut | Used by DSHELL. | |||||
| CMYK | .cmyk | ||||||
| CMYKA | .cmyka | ||||||
| DCS RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Kodak DCS Pro RAW | Kodak | .dcs | ||||
| DCR RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Digital Camera Raw | Kodak | TIFF | .dcr | |||
| DDS | DirectDraw Surface | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
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| Degas | Design & Entertainment Graphic Arts System | Integral Solutions | .pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3 |
An application on Atari ST Atari ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals... |
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| DNG Digital Negative (file format) Digital Negative is an open raw image format owned by Adobe used for digital photography. It was launched on September 27, 2004. The launch was accompanied by the first version of the DNG specification, plus various products including a free of charge DNG Converter utility... |
Digital Negative | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
Compatible with ISO 12234-2, TIFF/EP Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography "Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography" is a digital image file format standard – ISO 12234-2, titled "Electronic still-picture imaging – Removable memory – Part 2: TIFF/EP image data format"... |
.dng | A raw image format RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... suitable as an archival format and as the native raw format of digital cameras |
No: no known intellectual property encumbrances or license requirements | |
| DIA | Dia Drawing | XML | .dia | Used by Dia | |||
| DICOM | .dcm, .dicom | Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| DjVu DjVu DjVu is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, and photographs. It uses technologies such as image layer separation of text and background/images, progressive loading, arithmetic coding, and lossy... |
DjVu | AT&T Research | .djvu, .djv | image/vnd.djvu | |||
| Doodle | .doo | An application on Atari ST Atari ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals... |
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| DPX | Digital Picture eXchange file format | .dpx | image/dpx | ||||
| DRF RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Kodak Pro Back RAW | Kodak | .drf | ||||
| Dr. Halo | .cut | ||||||
| Encapsulated PostScript Encapsulated PostScript Encapsulated PostScript, or EPS, is a DSC-conforming PostScript document with additional restrictions which is intended to be usable as a graphics file format... |
.epi, .eps, .eps2, .eps3, .epsf, .epsi, .ept |
application/postscript | |||||
| ECW ECW (file format) ECW is a proprietary wavelet compression image format optimized for aerial and satellite imagery. It was developed by Earth Resource Mapping, and is now owned by ERDAS, which is owned by Intergraph... |
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 | |||
| EMF | Enhanced Metafile Format | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
.emf, .emz | Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of... |
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| EMF+ | Enhanced Metafile Format Plus Extensions | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
.emf, .emz | ||||
| ERF RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
EPSON RAW | EPSON | TIFF | .erf | |||
| ERI | Entis Rasterized Image format | .eri | |||||
| Exif Exchangeable image file format Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras , scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras... |
Exchangeable Image File Format | .exif | |||||
| EVA Extended Vector Animation Extended Vector Animation is a web-based vector graphic file format developed by Sharp Corporation in 1996. The EVA format differs from other vector formats because only the changes in vectors over time is recorded instead of information per frame... |
Extended Vector Animation | Sharp Corporation Sharp Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first... |
.eva | application/x-eva | |||
| EXR OpenEXR OpenEXR is a high dynamic range imaging image file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light and Magic , released under a free software license similar to the BSD license.... |
OpenEXR | ILM | .exr | image/exr | Used in film effects for 3d rendering and hdr images. | ||
| FIF | Fractal Image Format | .fif | |||||
| FIG | FIG format | .fig | application/x-xfig | Supported by Xfig Xfig Xfig is a Free and open source vector graphics editor which runs under the X Window System on most UNIX-compatible platforms.In Xfig, figures may be drawn using objects such as circles, boxes, lines, spline curves, text, etc. It is also possible to import images in formats such as GIF, JPEG, EPS,... |
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| FITS FITS Flexible Image Transport System is a digital file format used to store, transmit, and manipulate scientific and other images. FITS is the most commonly used digital file format in astronomy... |
Flexible Image Transport System | .fit, .fits | Scientific (esp. astronomical) data acquisition | ||||
| FLA | Flash Source File | .fla | |||||
| FLIC FLIC (file format) The FLIC file formats most known in the extension .FLI and .FLC, used to store animation files. It is similar to animated GIF. The FLIC animation format was originally developed by Autodesk for use with Autodesk Animator and Autodesk Animator Pro .-External links:***... |
Autodesk Autodesk Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries. The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of the company's... |
.fli, .flc, .flx, .flh, .flt | Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| FLW | Kivio Document | .flw | Supported by Kivio Kivio Calligra Flow, formerly known as Kivio, is a free diagramming software that is part of Calligra Suite, an integrated graphic art and office suite by KDE.-Description:... |
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| FPX FlashPix FlashPix is a bitmapped computer graphics file format where the image is saved in more than one resolution. Though this makes it larger even than a TIFF file, when a request is sent for the file by a Web browser only the resolution required for the current screen resolution is sent to the browser;... |
FlashPix (1.0.2) | .fpx | image/vnd.fpx | ||||
| FreeHand | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.fh4, .fh5, .fh7, .fh8, .fhc, .fh |
image/x-freehand | ||||
| FutureSplash | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.spl | application/futuresplash | ||||
| FXT | 3DFX 3dfx 3dfx Interactive was a company that specialized in the manufacturing of 3D graphics processing units and, later, graphics cards. It was a pioneer in the field for several years in the late 1990s until 2000 when it underwent one of the most high-profile demises in the history of the PC industry... |
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| GEGL composition | XML XML Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards.... |
.xml | application/xml | Used by GEGL GEGL The Generic Graphics Library is a programming library under development for image processing applications. It is mainly developed for GIMP in order to bring support for higher bit depth images than GIMP currently supports, as well as non-destructive editing... |
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| Gerber Format | RS-274X Extended Gerber Format | Ucamco Ucamco Ucamco develops PCB CAM software and laser photoplotters.Through Barco's earlier acquisition of Gerber Systems Corporation, Ucamco has inherited the intellectual property and the management of the Gerber format widely used in the design and manufacturing printed circuit boards.... |
Printable ASCII | .ger, others | Printed Circuit Board Printed circuit board A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. It is also referred to as printed wiring board or etched wiring... or PCB software |
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| GIF GIF The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.... |
Graphics Interchange Format | CompuServe CompuServe CompuServe was the first major commercial online service in the United States. It dominated the field during the 1980s and remained a major player through the mid-1990s, when it was sidelined by the rise of services such as AOL with monthly subscriptions rather than hourly rates... , Unisys Unisys Unisys Corporation , headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States, and incorporated in Delaware, is a long established business whose core products now involves computing and networking.-History:... (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 GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| GIMP compressed XJT image | The GIMP Team | .xjt, .xjtgz (compressed), .xjtbz2 (compressed) |
Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| GIH | Gimp image hose | The GIMP Team | .gih | Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| GIMP patterns | The GIMP Team | .pat | Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| GRA | .gra | Used by QSV and QLD. | |||||
| G3 Fax | .g3 | Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| Hasselblad 3FR RAW | TIFF | .3fr | |||||
| Hasselblad/Imacon FFF | .fff | ||||||
| HDRi HDRi (data format) The HDRi data format is a 64bit or 32bit data format for saving RAW data of HDR scans including infrared data developed by LaserSoft Imaging.- Data format :- Description :... |
TIFF | .tif, .tiff | image/tiff | ||||
| HD Photo / JPEG XR | HD Photo / JPEG XR | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
.wdp, .hdp, .jxr | image/vnd.ms-photo | TIFF-like container format with HDR High dynamic range imaging In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods... encoding for photographic images |
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| HG | Hyper Graphic Press | .hg | Supported by some old Japanese applications. | ||||
| ICER ICER ICER is a wavelet-based image compression file format used by the NASA Mars Rovers. ICER has both lossy and lossless compression modes.The Mars Exploration Rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity” both use ICER... |
NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... Mars Rovers |
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| IIQ RAW | Intelligent Image Quality RAW | Phase One | .iiq | ||||
| IMA | .ima | .ima team | .ima | Format for photograph Photograph A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of... ic images with HDR High dynamic range imaging In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods... encoding. |
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| 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. | No | |
| Masahide Hirabayashi | .im4 | ||||||
| Inkscape SVG | The Inkscape Team | SVG | .svg, .svgz | image/svg+xml | Used by Inkscape Inkscape Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard.... |
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| ICO ICO (icon image file format) The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately... |
ICO file format | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
.ico, .cur | image/vnd.Microsoft.icon, image/x-icon | Used by Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... and web browser Web browser A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content... s as favicon Favicon A favicon , also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one small icons, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page... |
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| ICS Image Cytometry Standard The Image Cytometry Standard is a digital multidimensional image file format used in life sciences microscopy. It stores not only the image data, but also the microscopic parameters describing the optics during the acquisition.... |
Image Cytometry Standard | .ics, .ids | |||||
| IGES IGES The Initial Graphics Exchange Specification is a file format which defines a vendor neutral data format that allows the digital exchange of information among Computer-aided design systems.... |
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification | .igs | image/iges | CAD/CAM interoperability Interoperability Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together . The term is often used in a technical systems engineering sense, or alternatively in a broad sense, taking into account social, political, and organizational factors that impact system to... |
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| ILBM ILBM ILBM is a subtype of the Interchange File Format used for storing picture data. ILBM stands for InterLeaved BitMap which refers to the way the pictures are stored. The image data is stored as a varying number of bitplanes, each storing one bit of data for each pixel in the image... |
InterLeaved BitMap | Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers... and Commodore Amiga |
IFF Interchange File Format Interchange File Format , is a generic container file format originally introduced by the Electronic Arts company in 1985 in order to ease transfer of data between software produced by different companies.... |
.iff, .ilbm, .lbm | image/x-ilbm | Planar graphics format designed for Amiga Amiga The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities... graphics hardware. |
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| IPTC/NAA | IPTC/NAA | TIFF Tagged Image File Format TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems... |
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| JBIG JBIG JBIG is a lossless image compression standard from the Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group, standardized as ISO/IEC standard 11544 and as ITU-T recommendation T.82. It is widely implemented in fax machines. Now that the newer bi-level image compression standard JBIG2 has been released, JBIG is also... |
Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group The Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group is a group of experts nominated by national standards bodies and major companies to work to produce standards for bi-level image coding. The 'joint' refers to its status as a committee working on both ISO and ITU-T standards... |
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| JBIG2 JBIG2 JBIG2 is an image compression standard for bi-level images, developed by the Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group. It is suitable for both lossless and lossy compression... |
Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group The Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group is a group of experts nominated by national standards bodies and major companies to work to produce standards for bi-level image coding. The 'joint' refers to its status as a committee working on both ISO and ITU-T standards... |
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| JNG JNG JPEG Network Graphics is a JPEG-based graphics file format which is closely related to PNG: it uses the PNG file structure as a container format to wrap JPEG encoded image data.... |
JPEG Network Graphics | .jng | image/x-jng | ||||
| JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... |
Joint Photographic Experts Group | Joint Photographic Experts Group Joint Photographic Experts Group The Joint Photographic Experts Group is the joint committee between ISO/IEC JTC1 and ITU-T that created the JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XR standards. It is one of two sub-groups of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 1 - titled as Coding of still pictures... |
.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe (containers: .jif, .jfif, .jfi) |
image/jpeg | Photograph Photograph A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of... ic images. Supported by most web browsers. |
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| JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method... |
Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000 | Joint Photographic Experts Group Joint Photographic Experts Group The Joint Photographic Experts Group is the joint committee between ISO/IEC JTC1 and ITU-T that created the JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XR standards. It is one of two sub-groups of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 1 - titled as Coding of still pictures... |
.jp2, .j2c, .jpc, .j2k, .jpx |
image/jp2 | Photograph Photograph A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of... ic images, eventual replacement for JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... . |
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| JPEG-LS JPEG-LS Lossless JPEG refers to a 1993 addition to JPEG standard by the Joint Photographic Experts Group to enable lossless compression. However, it might be used as an umbrella term to refer to all lossless compression schemes developed by the Joint Photographic Expert group... |
Joint Photographic Experts Group Joint Photographic Experts Group The Joint Photographic Experts Group is the joint committee between ISO/IEC JTC1 and ITU-T that created the JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XR standards. It is one of two sub-groups of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 1 - titled as Coding of still pictures... |
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| JPEG-HDR JPEG-HDR JPEG-HDR is an extension to the standard JPEG image file format allowing it to store high dynamic range images.- Overview :JPEG-HDR was created by Greg Ward and Maryann Simmons as a way to store high dynamic range images inside a standard JPEG file. This reduces the file size required to store HDR... |
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| J6I | RICOH Ricoh or Ricoh, is a Japanese company that was established in 1936 on February 6th, as , a company in the RIKEN zaibatsu. Its headquarters is located in Ricoh Building in Chūō, Tokyo.... |
JPEG | .j6i | Used by RICOH DC-1/2 | |||
| KDC RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Kodak DC40/DC50 RAW | Kodak | TIFF | .kdc | |||
| KOA | .koa, .gg (compressed) |
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| KIFF | Kt Interchange File Format | .kif, .kiff | |||||
| KISS CEL | .cel | Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| Kodak TIFF extensions | Kodak | TIFF | .tif | ||||
| Kodak YCC | Kodak | .pcd | |||||
| KQP | Minolta Minolta Minolta Co., Ltd. was a Japanese worldwide manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It is perhaps best known for making the first integrated autofocus 35mm SLR camera system... |
JPEG | .kqp | ||||
| K25 RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Kodak DC25 RAW | Kodak | TIFF | .k25 | |||
| Leaf Mosaic RAW | TIFF | .mos | |||||
| LightStream Picture | .lsp | ||||||
| Logluv TIFF Logluv TIFF Logluv TIFF is an encoding used for storing high dynamic range imaging data inside a TIFF image. It was originally developed by Greg Ward for storing HDR-output of his Radiance-photonmapper in a time, where storage-space was a crucial factor. Its implementation in TIFF also allowed the combination... |
Greg Ward | TIFF | Supported by Libtiff Libtiff Libtiff is a library for reading and writing Tagged Image File Format files. The set also contains command line tools for processing TIFFs. It is distributed in source code and can be found as binary builds for all kinds of platforms... |
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| MDC | Minolta RD175 Format | Minolta Minolta Minolta Co., Ltd. was a Japanese worldwide manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It is perhaps best known for making the first integrated autofocus 35mm SLR camera system... |
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| MET | OS/2 Metafile Format | .met | Supported by SAS/GRAPH | ||||
| MNG | Multiple-image Network Graphics | PNG | .mng | video/x-mng | |||
| MO:DCA | MO:DCA | IBM IBM International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas... |
.mda, .ica, .mmr, .afp |
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| MSP | Microsoft Paint | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
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| MYD | Myd format | .myd | |||||
| MYV | Myv vector format | .myv | |||||
| NEF RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Nikon RAW | Nikon Nikon , also known as just Nikon, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which... |
TIFF | .nef | |||
| MEF | Mamiya RAW | Mamiya Mamiya is a Japanese company that today manufactures high-end cameras and other related photographic and optical equipment. With headquarters in Tokyo, it has two manufacturing plants and a workforce of over 200 people... |
TIFF | .mef | |||
| Neochrome | Dave Staugas | .neo | An application on Atari ST Atari ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals... |
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| 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 Not to be confused with ImageMagickThe Magick Image File Format, abbreviated MIFF, is an image format used by ImageMagick. It may be used to store bitmap images platform-independently.... |
Magick image file format | ImageMagick Studio | .miff | Supported by ImageMagick ImageMagick ImageMagick is an open source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files. It can read and write over 100 image file formats. ImageMagick is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.- Features and capabilities:... |
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| MSA | Misachan File | Hirohumi Iguchi | .msa | Supported by old Japanese applications | |||
| MSL | Magick Scripting Language | ImageMagick Studio | .msl | Supported by ImageMagick ImageMagick ImageMagick is an open source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files. It can read and write over 100 image file formats. ImageMagick is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.- Features and capabilities:... |
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| MVG | Magick Vector Graphics | ImageMagick Studio | .mvg | Supported by ImageMagick ImageMagick ImageMagick is an open source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files. It can read and write over 100 image file formats. ImageMagick is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.- Features and capabilities:... |
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| MPC | Magick Persistent Cache image file format | ImageMagick Studio | .mpc | Supported by ImageMagick ImageMagick ImageMagick is an open source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files. It can read and write over 100 image file formats. ImageMagick is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.- Features and capabilities:... |
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| MRW RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Minolta RAW | Minolta Minolta Minolta Co., Ltd. was a Japanese worldwide manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It is perhaps best known for making the first integrated autofocus 35mm SLR camera system... |
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| NSK-TIFF | NSK-TIFF | Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (日本新聞協会) Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, the Nihon Shinbun Kyokai , is an entirely independent and voluntary organization funded and operated by the mass media of Japan. NSK was established on July 23, 1946. Its express purpose is to elevate ethical standards in reporting and protect... |
TIFF Tagged Image File Format TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems... |
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| OAZ | OAZ Fax | Oaz Communications | .oaz | Used by NetFax Manager | |||
| ODG | OpenDocument drawing | .odg | |||||
| ORA OpenRaster OpenRaster is a file format proposed for the common exchange of layered images between raster graphics editors. It is meant as a replacement for later versions of the Adobe PSD format. OpenRaster is still in development and so far is supported by a few programs... |
OpenRaster | freedesktop.org | OpenDocument/XML | .ora | DrawPile, GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... , Krita Krita Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License... , MyPaint, Nathive, Pinta Pinta (software) Pinta is a lightweight open-source, cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program inspired by Paint.NET, a similar image editing program which is limited to Microsoft Windows. Pinta aims to offer a free and open-source simpler alternative to GIMP on the GNOME desktop environment... |
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| ORF RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Olympus RAW | Olympus Olympus Corporation is a Japan-based manufacturer of optics and reprography products. Olympus was established on 12 October 1919, initially specializing in microscope and thermometer businesses. Its global headquarters are in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, while its USA operations are based in Center Valley, Pennsylvania,... |
TIFF | .orf | |||
| PAM PAM graphics format The PAM graphics format of the Netpbm package generalises all the features of the previous formats and provides for extending them... |
portable anymap file format | .pam | |||||
| Panasonic RAW | Panasonic Panasonic Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd... |
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 | .pbm | image/x-portable-bitmap | ||||
| PCD | Kodak ImagePac Photo CD | Kodak | .pcd | image/jpcd | |||
| PCF | Pixel Coordination Format | .pcf | image/pcf | ||||
| PCX PCX PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,... |
ZSoft PC Paintbrush File | ZSoft Corporation ZSoft Corporation ZSoft Corporation, founded by Mark Zachmann, was a Marietta, Georgia software company in the 1980s known for the PC Paintbrush software and its PCX graphic file format. ZSoft first merged in 1989 with Mediagenic. When Mediagenic went bankrupt in 1991, Zachmann was able to regain his independence... |
.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 Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.pdf, .epdf | application/pdf | ||||
| PDN | Paint.NET Paint.NET Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is... Image |
dotPDN LLC | .pdn | Preferred and supported by Paint.NET Paint.NET Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is... |
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| PEF RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
PENTAX RAW | PENTAX | TIFF | .pef | |||
| PGF Progressive Graphics File PGF is a wavelet-based bitmapped image format that employs lossless and lossy data compression. PGF was created to improve upon and replace the JPEG format... |
Progressive Graphics File | xeraina GmbH | .pgf | Photograph Photograph A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of... ic images, eventual replacement for JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... . |
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| PGM | Portable Graymap File Format | .pgm | image/x-portable-graymap | ||||
| PGML | Precision Graphics Markup Language | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... , IBM IBM International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas... , Netscape Netscape Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California... , Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
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| PNM | Portable anymap | .pnm | |||||
| PTX | Pentax RAW Bitmap Graphic | Pentax Pentax Pentax is a brand name used by Hoya Corporation for its medical-related products & services and Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company for cameras, sport optics , etc. Hoya purchased and merged with the Japanese optics company on March 31, 2008. Hoya's Pentax imaging business was sold to Ricoh Company, Ltd... |
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| 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 PICT PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. It allows the interchange of graphics , and some limited text support, between Mac applications, and was the native graphics format of QuickDraw.The original version, PICT 1, was... |
Macintosh PICT Format | Apple Inc. | .pict, .pic, .pct, .pct1, .pct2 |
image/pict | Metafile Metafile Metafile is a generic term for a file format that can store multiple types of data. This commonly includes graphics file formats. These graphics files can contain raster, vector, and type data... for Mac OS Mac OS Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface... , not meant for print publishing. |
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| PICtor PICtor PIC image format PICtor is an image file format developed by John Bridges, the principal author of PCPaint, the first Paintbrush program for the PC. It was also the native file format for Pictor Paint and GRASP and became the first widely accepted DOS imaging standard.-Typical file format:The PICtor format is a... |
John Bridges, Doug Wolfgram | .pic | Supported by PCPaint PCPaint PCPaint was the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program . It was developed by John Bridges and Doug Wolfgram.The hardware manufacturer Mouse Systems bundled PCPaint with millions of computer mice that they sold, making PCPaint also the best-selling MS-DOS-based paint program of the late... |
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| PIC2 | Yanagisawa | .p2 | Supported by some old Japanese applications. | ||||
| Pixel Pixel image editor Pixel Image Editor is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is written with Free Pascal.-Features:... |
Pixel image format | Pixel Pixel image editor Pixel Image Editor is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is written with Free Pascal.-Features:... |
.px | image/px | Native format of the Pixel image editing program. | ||
| PLD | PhotoLine Document | Computerinsel GmbH | .pld | application/pld | Native format of the PhotoLine image editing program. | ||
| PMP | Sony Sony , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues.... |
JPEG | .pmp | Used by Sony Cyber-Shot | |||
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | World Wide Web Consortium World Wide Web Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the... |
.png | image/png | W3C endorsed replacement for GIF GIF The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.... . Supported by most web browsers. |
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| PostScript PostScript PostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging... |
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| 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. | |||
| PSD | Photoshop Document | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.psd, .psb, .pdb, .pdd |
image/vnd.adobe.photoshop, image/psd, image/photoshop, image/x-photoshop | Used mainly for storing image manipulation & editing data. | ||
| PSP Corel Paint Shop Pro Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the... |
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. | ||
| PSX TIM | .tim | ||||||
| PSX TIM2 | Sony PlayStation Tim2 | Sony Sony , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues.... |
.tm2, .str | Used by PlayStation2 | |||
| PXA | .pxa | Used by Pixia Pixia Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art.... |
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| QuickTime Image | Apple Inc. | .qtif, .qti, .qif | |||||
| Q0 | .q0 | ||||||
| Q4 | XLD4 | MAJYO | .q4 | ||||
| RAD | Gregory Ward Larson | .rad | Radiance Radiance (software) Radiance is a suite of tools for performing lighting simulation originally written by Greg Ward. It includes a renderer as well as many other tools for measuring the simulated light levels. It uses ray tracing to perform all lighting calculations, accelerated by the use of an octree data structure... |
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| RAF RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Fujifilm RAW | Fujifilm Fujifilm is a multinational photography and imaging company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.Fujifilm's principal activities are the development, production, sale and servicing of color photographic film, digital cameras, photofinishing equipment, color paper, photofinishing chemicals, medical imaging... |
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| RGB | .rgb | ||||||
| RGBA | .rgba | ||||||
| RGBE RGBE image format RGBE is an image format invented by Gregory Ward Larson. It stores pixels as one byte each for RGB values with a one byte shared exponent. Thus it stores four bytes per pixel.... |
Gregory Ward Larson | .hdr | image/vnd.radiance | Radiance Radiance (software) Radiance is a suite of tools for performing lighting simulation originally written by Greg Ward. It includes a renderer as well as many other tools for measuring the simulated light levels. It uses ray tracing to perform all lighting calculations, accelerated by the use of an octree data structure... , most HDR imaging software |
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| R3D | RED REDCODE RAW | Red RED Digital Camera Company The Red Digital Cinema Camera Company manufactures digital cinematography cameras and accessories. It was founded and financed in 1999 by Oakley founder Jim Jannard... |
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| SAI | SYSTEMAX | .sai | Supported by PaintTool SAI | ||||
| SCT | Scitex Continuous Tone Picture | .sct | |||||
| SDA | Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
.sda | Supported by StarOffice StarOffice StarOffice, known briefly as Oracle Open Office before its discontinuation in 2010, is a proprietary office suite. It was originally developed by StarDivision which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999... Draw 3-5 |
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| SDD | Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
.sdd | Supported by StarOffice StarOffice StarOffice, known briefly as Oracle Open Office before its discontinuation in 2010, is a proprietary office suite. It was originally developed by StarDivision which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999... Draw 3-5 |
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| 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 Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
.sgb | Supported by StarOffice Graphics 2 | ||||
| SGI Silicon Graphics Image Silicon Graphics Image or the RGB file format is the native raster graphics file format for Silicon Graphics workstations.Common file endings are:*SGI or RGB 3 colour channels*RGBA 3 colour channels and alpha... |
Silicon Graphics Image | .sgi, .rgb, .rgba, .bw, .int, .inta, .icon |
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| Shockwave Director | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.dir, .dcr, .dxr, .fgd | application/x-director | Used by Adobe Shockwave. | |||
| SHAPE | Dia Stencil | SVG | .shape | Used by Dia. | |||
| SK | .sk | Supported by Skencil Skencil Skencil, formerly called Sketch, is a free software vector graphics editor, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Its first public version, Sketch 0.5.0, was released on October 31, 1998.... |
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| SketchUp Format | .skp, .skb | Supported by SketchUp SketchUp SketchUp is a 3D modeling program marketed by Google and designed for architectural, civil, and mechanical engineers as well as filmmakers, game developers,... |
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| SML | Kivio stencil | .sml | Supported by Kivio Kivio Calligra Flow, formerly known as Kivio, is a free diagramming software that is part of Calligra Suite, an integrated graphic art and office suite by KDE.-Description:... |
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| SRF RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
Sony RAW File | Sony Sony , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues.... |
TIFF | .srf, .sr2 | |||
| SUN | Sun rasterfile | Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
.sun, .ras, .rs, .im1, .im8, .im24, .im32 |
Supported by GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| 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 Scalable Vector Graphics is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic . The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium since 1999.SVG images and their... |
Scalable Vector Graphics | World Wide Web Consortium World Wide Web Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the... |
XML XML Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards.... |
.svg, .svgz (compressed) |
image/svg+xml | Scriptable vector image format; supported by major web browsers, occasionally via plug-in. | |
| SWF SWF SWF is an Adobe Flash file format used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript. Originating with FutureWave Software, then transferred to Macromedia, and then coming under the control of Adobe, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function.,... |
Shockwave Flash | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.swf | application/x-shockwave-flash | Supported by many web browsers via plug-in. | ||
| SXD | OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software... 1.0 drawing format |
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| TGA Truevision TGA Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. . It was the native format of TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display... |
Truevision Targa | Truevision Inc. | .tga, .tpic | image/tga | Used by many 3D rendering applications and 3d games. | Yes? | |
| TIFF Tagged Image File Format TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems... |
Tagged Image File Format | Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
.tiff, .tif | image/tiff | Document scanning and imaging format, also functions as a container. | ||
| TIFF/EP | Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography | International Organization for Standardization | TIFF Tagged Image File Format TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems... |
.tiff, .tif | |||
| TIFF-FX | Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended | TIFF Tagged Image File Format TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems... |
.tiff, .tif | image/tiff-fx | |||
| Tiny Stuff | David Mumper | .tny, .tn1, .tn2, .tn3, .tn4, .tn5, tn6 |
An application on Atari ST Atari ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals... |
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| TLG5 | .tlg | Used by KiriKiri KiriKiri is a scripting engine by Japanese developer "W.Dee". It is almost exclusively used with the KAG framework to produce visual novels. Usually, the package of the two components is regarded as the whole engine, and referenced with major version numbers. Thus, the current version is called... |
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| TLG6 | .tlg | Used by KiriKiri KiriKiri is a scripting engine by Japanese developer "W.Dee". It is almost exclusively used with the KAG framework to produce visual novels. Usually, the package of the two components is regarded as the whole engine, and referenced with major version numbers. Thus, the current version is called... |
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| UFO | Ulead File for Objects | .ufo | |||||
| VML Vector Markup Language Vector Markup Language is a deprecated XML language used to produce vector graphics.VML was submitted as a proposed standard to the W3C in 1998 by Autodesk, Hewlett-Packard, Macromedia, Microsoft, and Visio. Around the same time other competing W3C submissions were received in the area of web... |
Vector Markup Language | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
.htm , .html | application/vnd. openxmlformats-officedocument. vmlDrawing | Internet Explorer Internet Explorer Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year... , Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of... |
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| WBMP Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format is a monochrome graphics file format optimized for mobile computing devices.... |
Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format | Open Mobile Alliance Open Mobile Alliance The Open Mobile Alliance is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry.- Principles :Mission: To provide interoperable service enablers working across countries, operators and mobile terminals.... (formerly WAP Forum)) |
.wbmp, .wbm, .wbp | image/vnd.wap.wbmp | Used in WAP Wireless Application Protocol Wireless Application Protocol is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network.A WAP browser is a web browser for mobile devices such as mobile phones that uses the protocol.Before the introduction of WAP, mobile service providers had limited opportunities to offer... -pages |
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| WinFax | Symantec Symantec Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:... |
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| WMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... |
Windows Metafile Format | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
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| WordPerfect Graphics File | .wpg | ||||||
| XAML XAML Extensible Application Markup Language is a declarative XML-based language created by Microsoft used for initializing structured values and objects. It is available under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise... |
Extensible Application Markup Language | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
XML XML Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards.... |
.xaml | application/xaml+xml | Used by Windows Presentation Foundation Windows Presentation Foundation Developed by Microsoft, the Windows Presentation Foundation is a computer-software graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications. WPF, previously known as "Avalon", was initially released as part of .NET Framework 3.0. Rather than relying on the older GDI... and Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash. The run-time environment for Silverlight is available as a plug-in for web browsers running under Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X... . |
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| XAR | Xar | xara Xara Xara is a UK-based software company founded in 1981. It has developed software for a variety of computer platforms, in chronological order: The Acorn Atom, BBC Micro, Z88, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, Microsoft Windows and Linux. It was originally called Computer Concepts, Ltd.; the company name... |
Xar (graphics) | .xar | application/vnd.xara | Used by Xara Xtreme Xara Xtreme Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is a 2D vector graphics editor created by the British software company Xara, which was acquired by German company MAGIX AG in 2007, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary. It was previously sold under the names Xara Studio, Xara X and Xara Xtreme... |
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| XBM XBM In computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap , a plain text binary image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI.XBM files differ markedly from most image files in that they take the form of C source files... |
X BitMap | .xbm, .bm, .icon, .bitmap |
image/x-xbitmap | Used by many legacy Unix applications. | |||
| XCF | XCF, name derived from eXperimental Computing Facility EXperimental Computing Facility Founded in 1986, the eXperimental Computing Facility is an undergraduate computing-interest organization... |
The GIMP Team | .xcf, .xcfbz2 (compressed), .xcfgz (compressed) |
application/x-gimp-image | Used by GIMP | ||
| XPM XPM (image format) X Pixmap is an image file format used by the X Window System, created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors.... |
X-Pixmap | .xpm, .pm | image/x-xpm | Used by many legacy Unix applications. | |||
| X3F RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... |
SIGMA RAW | SIGMA Sigma Sigma is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, and carries the 'S' sound. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 200. When used at the end of a word, and the word is not all upper case, the final form is used, e.g... |
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| XWD | .xwd, .x11 | Used by X Window System X Window System The X window system is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces and rich input device capability for networked computers... |
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| XYZ | RPG Maker image file | ASCII ASCII (company) was a publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. It became a subsidiary of Kadokawa Group Holdings in 2004, and merged with another Kadokawa subsidiary MediaWorks on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. The company published Monthly ASCII as the main publication... |
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| ZDT | .zdt | Used by TECH Win | |||||
| Format | Full name | Owner | Based Format | File extension | MIME MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support:* Text in character sets other than ASCII* Non-text attachments* Message bodies with multiple parts... type |
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Raster Raster graphics In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium... / vector Vector graphics Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon, which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics... |
Color depth Color depth In computer graphics, color depth or bit depth is the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. This concept is also known as bits per pixel , particularly when specified along with the number of bits used... |
Indexed color Indexed color In computing, indexed color is a technique to manage digital images' colors in a limited fashion, in order to save computer memory and file storage, while speeding up display refresh and file transfers... |
Transparency | Metadata Metadata The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at... |
Interlacing Interlace (bitmaps) Interlacing is a method of encoding a bitmap image such that a person who has partially received it sees a degraded copy of the entire image. When communicating over a slow communications link, this is often preferable to seeing a perfectly clear copy of one part of the image, as it helps the... |
Multi-page | Animation Animation Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways... |
Layers | Color management Color management In digital imaging systems, color management is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printers, offset presses, and corresponding media.The primary goal of color... |
Extendable | HDR format High dynamic range imaging In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods... |
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| AGP | RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... |
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| AI Adobe Illustrator Artwork Adobe Illustrator Artwork is a proprietary file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing single-page vector-based drawings in either the EPS or PDF formats... |
Lossy and lossless | 1, 8, 24, and 32 (possibly with multiple palettes) | |||||||||||
| BEF BEF (image format) BEF is an HDR image format developed by Unified Color. It is supported in HDR PhotoStudio, an advanced HDR imaging application, as well as via an Adobe Photoshop image format plug-in... |
Visual lossless and lossy compression based on JND metric | 32-bit floating point | Not required | ||||||||||
| BMP | None, RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... , JPEG, and PNG |
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| CDR CorelDRAW CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite... |
Lossy and lossless | 1, 8, 24,and 32 (multiple palettes) | |||||||||||
| CPC Cartesian Perceptual Compression Cartesian Perceptual Compression is a proprietary image file format. It was designed for high compression of black-and-white raster Document Imaging for archival scans.... |
CPC | 1 | , via embedded dictionary | ||||||||||
| EXR OpenEXR OpenEXR is a high dynamic range imaging image file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light and Magic , released under a free software license similar to the BSD license.... |
None, RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... , ZIP ZIP (file format) Zip is a file format used for data compression and archiving. A zip file contains one or more files that have been compressed, to reduce file size, or stored as is... , Piz, PXR24, and B44 |
16–128 (floating-point IEEE floating-point standard IEEE 754–1985 was an industry standard for representingfloating-pointnumbers in computers, officially adopted in 1985 and superseded in 2008 byIEEE 754-2008. During its 23 years, it was the most widely used format for... ) |
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| GIF GIF The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.... |
LZW LZW Lempel–Ziv–Welch is a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch. It was published by Welch in 1984 as an improved implementation of the LZ78 algorithm published by Lempel and Ziv in 1978... |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 | ; 1b plane-only mask using color index | (GIF89a) | |||||||||
| HD Photo / JPEG XR | Lossy and lossless bi-orthogonal transform | 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, and 128 (floating-point IEEE floating-point standard IEEE 754–1985 was an industry standard for representingfloating-pointnumbers in computers, officially adopted in 1985 and superseded in 2008 byIEEE 754-2008. During its 23 years, it was the most widely used format for... ) |
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| ILBM ILBM ILBM is a subtype of the Interchange File Format used for storing picture data. ILBM stands for InterLeaved BitMap which refers to the way the pictures are stored. The image data is stored as a varying number of bitplanes, each storing one bit of data for each pixel in the image... |
Optional run-length encoding Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... |
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 64 EHB, 128, 256 (8-bit 8-bit The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor was the Intel 8080, being used in many hobbyist computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, often running the CP/M operating system. The Zilog Z80 and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers... ), 4,096 (HAM6 pseudo 12-bit), 4,096 pure 12-bit 12-bit Possibly the best-known 12-bit CPU is the PDP-8 and its relatives, produced in various incarnations from August 1963 to mid-1990. Many ADCs have a 12-bit resolution. Some PIC microcontrollers use a 12-bit word size.... , 262, 144 (HAM8 pseudo 18-bit 18-bit 18 binary digits have unique combinations.-Example 18-bit computer architectures:* Possibly the most well-known 18-bit computer architectures are the PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-9 and PDP-15 minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1960 to 1975.* UNIVAC produced a number of... ), and 24-bit 24-bit Notable 24-bit machines include the ICT 1900 series and the Harris H series.The IBM System/360, announced in 1964, was a popular computer system with 24-bit addressing and 32-bit general registers and arithmetic... |
, Palette-shifting Palette-shifting Color cycling, also known as palette shifting, is a technique used in computer graphics in which colors are changed in order to give the impression of animation... |
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| IMA | Lossy and lossless original mutiresolution analysis transformation | 8-bit 8-bit The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor was the Intel 8080, being used in many hobbyist computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, often running the CP/M operating system. The Zilog Z80 and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers... , 16-bit 16-bit -16-bit architecture:The HP BPC, introduced in 1975, was the world's first 16-bit microprocessor. Prominent 16-bit processors include the PDP-11, Intel 8086, Intel 80286 and the WDC 65C816. The Intel 8088 was program-compatible with the Intel 8086, and was 16-bit in that its registers were 16... integer Integer The integers are formed by the natural numbers together with the negatives of the non-zero natural numbers .They are known as Positive and Negative Integers respectively... , 32-bit 32-bit The range of integer values that can be stored in 32 bits is 0 through 4,294,967,295. Hence, a processor with 32-bit memory addresses can directly access 4 GB of byte-addressable memory.... floating-point |
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| JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... |
Lossy (and partly lossless), DCT Discrete cosine transform A discrete cosine transform expresses a sequence of finitely many data points in terms of a sum of cosine functions oscillating at different frequencies. DCTs are important to numerous applications in science and engineering, from lossy compression of audio and images A discrete cosine transform... , RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... , and Huffman Huffman coding In computer science and information theory, Huffman coding is an entropy encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression. The term refers to the use of a variable-length code table for encoding a source symbol where the variable-length code table has been derived in a particular way based on... predictive nearest neighbor |
8-bit 8-bit The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor was the Intel 8080, being used in many hobbyist computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, often running the CP/M operating system. The Zilog Z80 and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers... (greyscale), 12-bit, and 24-bit 24-bit Notable 24-bit machines include the ICT 1900 series and the Harris H series.The IBM System/360, announced in 1964, was a popular computer system with 24-bit addressing and 32-bit general registers and arithmetic... |
(see unofficial JPEG-HDR JPEG-HDR JPEG-HDR is an extension to the standard JPEG image file format allowing it to store high dynamic range images.- Overview :JPEG-HDR was created by Greg Ward and Maryann Simmons as a way to store high dynamic range images inside a standard JPEG file. This reduces the file size required to store HDR... ) |
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| JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method... |
Lossy and lossless (DWT Discrete wavelet transform In numerical analysis and functional analysis, a discrete wavelet transform is any wavelet transform for which the wavelets are discretely sampled... ) |
8 8-bit The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor was the Intel 8080, being used in many hobbyist computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, often running the CP/M operating system. The Zilog Z80 and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers... and 16 16-bit -16-bit architecture:The HP BPC, introduced in 1975, was the world's first 16-bit microprocessor. Prominent 16-bit processors include the PDP-11, Intel 8086, Intel 80286 and the WDC 65C816. The Intel 8088 was program-compatible with the Intel 8086, and was 16-bit in that its registers were 16... (greyscale) with possibly color up to 48-bit 48-bit Computers with 48-bit words include CDC 1604 and BESM-6.The IBM AS/400, in its CISC variants, is a 48-bit addressing system. The address size used in logical block addressing was increased to 48 bits with the introduction of ATA-6.... |
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| ORA OpenRaster OpenRaster is a file format proposed for the common exchange of layered images between raster graphics editors. It is meant as a replacement for later versions of the Adobe PSD format. OpenRaster is still in development and so far is supported by a few programs... |
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| PAM PAM graphics format The PAM graphics format of the Netpbm package generalises all the features of the previous formats and provides for extending them... |
None | Up to 16 | |||||||||||
| PCX PCX PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,... |
None, RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... |
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| PGF Progressive Graphics File PGF is a wavelet-based bitmapped image format that employs lossless and lossy data compression. PGF was created to improve upon and replace the JPEG format... |
Lossy and lossless (DWT Discrete wavelet transform In numerical analysis and functional analysis, a discrete wavelet transform is any wavelet transform for which the wavelets are discretely sampled... ) |
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| PICT PICT PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. It allows the interchange of graphics , and some limited text support, between Mac applications, and was the native graphics format of QuickDraw.The original version, PICT 1, was... |
None, RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... , and QuickTime |
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| Pixel Pixel image editor Pixel Image Editor is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is written with Free Pascal.-Features:... |
GZIP | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 | |||||||||||
| PLD | Optional ZIP, JPEG | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64 | |||||||||||
| PNG | Lossless and DEFLATE | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64 | (1–8 bit modes) | ; 8b, 16b per-pixel alpha channel; 8b for indexed | , Adam7 algorithm Adam7 algorithm Adam7 is an interlacing algorithm for raster images, best known as the interlacing scheme optionally used in PNG images. An Adam7 interlaced image is broken into seven subimages, which are defined by replicating this 8×8 pattern across the full image.... |
(but see MNG and APNG) | , via chunks | , see discussion | |||||
| PPM Portable pixmap The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project.... |
None | Up to 16 | |||||||||||
| PSD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop... |
None and RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... |
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64 | ; 8b, 16b per-pixel alpha channel | ? | |||||||||
| PSP Corel Paint Shop Pro Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the... |
None | 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, and 48 | ; 8b and 16b per-pixel alpha channel | ||||||||||
| SVG Scalable Vector Graphics Scalable Vector Graphics is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic . The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium since 1999.SVG images and their... |
None and lossless gzip Gzip Gzip is any of several software applications used for file compression and decompression. The term usually refers to the GNU Project's implementation, "gzip" standing for GNU zip. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of Lempel-Ziv and Huffman coding... |
24 and 32 | (1.2 draft) | (SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things... /SVG) |
, XML XML Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards.... based |
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| TGA Truevision TGA Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. . It was the native format of TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display... |
None, RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... , and other |
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| TIFF Tagged Image File Format TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems... |
None, LZW LZW Lempel–Ziv–Welch is a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch. It was published by Welch in 1984 as an improved implementation of the LZ78 algorithm published by Lempel and Ziv in 1978... , RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... , ZIP ZIP (file format) Zip is a file format used for data compression and archiving. A zip file contains one or more files that have been compressed, to reduce file size, or stored as is... , and other |
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| XAML XAML Extensible Application Markup Language is a declarative XML-based language created by Microsoft used for initializing structured values and objects. It is available under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise... |
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| XCF | None and lossless (gzip Gzip Gzip is any of several software applications used for file compression and decompression. The term usually refers to the GNU Project's implementation, "gzip" standing for GNU zip. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of Lempel-Ziv and Huffman coding... and bzip2 Bzip2 bzip2 is a free and open source implementation of the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm. It is developed and maintained by Julian Seward. Seward made the first public release of bzip2, version 0.15, in July 1996.-Compression efficiency:... ) |
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| Format | Compression algorithm | Raster Raster graphics In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium... / vector Vector graphics Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon, which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics... |
Color depth Color depth In computer graphics, color depth or bit depth is the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. This concept is also known as bits per pixel , particularly when specified along with the number of bits used... |
Indexed color Indexed color In computing, indexed color is a technique to manage digital images' colors in a limited fashion, in order to save computer memory and file storage, while speeding up display refresh and file transfers... |
Transparency | Metadata Metadata The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at... |
Interlacing Interlace (bitmaps) Interlacing is a method of encoding a bitmap image such that a person who has partially received it sees a degraded copy of the entire image. When communicating over a slow communications link, this is often preferable to seeing a perfectly clear copy of one part of the image, as it helps the... |
Multi-page | Animation Animation Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways... |
Layers | Color management Color management In digital imaging systems, color management is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printers, offset presses, and corresponding media.The primary goal of color... |
Extendable | HDR format High dynamic range imaging In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods... |