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* [[Windows Animated Cursor|ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)]] | * [[Windows Animated Cursor|ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)]] | ||
* [[Apple File and App Icons]] | * [[Apple File and App Icons]] | ||
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* [[CUR]] (Microsoft Windows cursors) | * [[CUR]] (Microsoft Windows cursors) | ||
** [[Windows 1.0 Cursor]] | ** [[Windows 1.0 Cursor]] | ||
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* [[Pegasus PIC]] | * [[Pegasus PIC]] | ||
* [[Pegasus PIC2]] | * [[Pegasus PIC2]] | ||
| + | * [[PEP (Prediction-Encoded Pixels)]] | ||
* [[Perfect Pix]] | * [[Perfect Pix]] | ||
* [[PFM (Portable Float Map)]] | * [[PFM (Portable Float Map)]] | ||
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* [[SHP (Loadstar)]] | * [[SHP (Loadstar)]] | ||
* [[Signum! Compressed Image (IMC)]] | * [[Signum! Compressed Image (IMC)]] | ||
| + | * [[SIMIS]] (.ace)[https://james-ross.co.uk/weblog/2010/04/09/01 1] | ||
* [[Sinbad Slideshow]] | * [[Sinbad Slideshow]] | ||
* [[Sinclair QL screen]] | * [[Sinclair QL screen]] | ||
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* [[Gerber format]] (used in printed circuit design) | * [[Gerber format]] (used in printed circuit design) | ||
* [[The Graphics Magician Picture Painter|Graphics Magician Picture Painter, The]] | * [[The Graphics Magician Picture Painter|Graphics Magician Picture Painter, The]] | ||
| + | * [[GraphicConverter format]] (.gcimgd) | ||
* [[GST ART]] (.art) | * [[GST ART]] (.art) | ||
* [[Haiku Vector Icon Format]] | * [[Haiku Vector Icon Format]] | ||
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* [[Micrografx Draw]] | * [[Micrografx Draw]] | ||
* [[Microsoft Office Drawing]] | * [[Microsoft Office Drawing]] | ||
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* [[MIX (PhotoDraw)]] | * [[MIX (PhotoDraw)]] | ||
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* [[NAPLPS]] (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax) | * [[NAPLPS]] (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax) | ||
* [[NeoDraw]] | * [[NeoDraw]] | ||
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* [[Notability]] | * [[Notability]] | ||
* [[ObjectGraphics OGL]] | * [[ObjectGraphics OGL]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:02, 11 September 2025
Electronic Formats concerned with Image Data.
See also:
- 3D and CAD/CAM Models
- Animation
- Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
- Fonts
- Geospatial
- Health and Medicine#Medical Imaging
- Page description languages
- Scientific Data formats
- Video
Other lists of formats:
- Amiga graphics formats
- Apple II graphics formats
- Atari graphics formats
- Commodore graphics formats
- Fax formats
[edit] Animated image formats
- APNG
- GFY
- GIF
- GIFV
- IFF-DEEP
- Just Buttons BTN
- MNG
- Naïve Image Formats (NII, NIA)
- OIL (OpenIL)
- PGX (Portfolio)
- Ugoira
- XNG
Other image formats supporting animation, but not usually thought of as animation formats, include AVIF, HEIF, JPEG XL, JPX, and WebP.
[edit] Character-based graphics
See Character encoding for details of character sets, some of which include graphical or line-and-box-drawing characters.
- 2500x
- ANSI Art (.ans)
- ANSI escape code
- AN2
- ArtWorx Data Format (.adf)
- ASCII Art
- Ascii-Art Editor
- AVATAR (FidoNet)
- BIN (Binary Text)
- BSAVE Image
- CebraText
- ComAnsi (.anc)
- Dir Logo Maker
- Fontastic COM format
- iCEDraw (.idf)
- Instant Graphics and Sound (.ig, .igs)
- Laughing Dog Screen Maker (.dog)
- Laughing Dog Screen Maker COM file
- MZM (.mzm)
- Nitrogen Fingers Paint (NFP)
- Nitrogen Fingers Text (NFT)
- P-Screen COM Screen
- PCBoard (.pcb)
- PIX (PIcture in teXt) (sets up custom characters to show raster image in text mode)
- RIPscrip (or RIPscript)
- Semi-Graphic logos Editor
- sMAUG ANSI Executable
- TheDraw COM File
- TheDraw Save File (.td)
- TUNDRA (.tnd)
- XBIN (.xb)
[edit] Colors
(Profiles, color spaces, palettes, swatches)
- Adobe RGB (1998)
- Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase)
- Atari ST color palette
- Color Exchange Format (.cxf)
- Color format
- Commodore 64 color palette
- DAT (Build Engine Palette)
- DNG camera profile
- Dr. Halo PAL
- GIMP Palette
- ICC profile
- PAL (Dark Reign)
- Photoshop Curve
- Photoshop Transfer Function
- RIFF Palette File
- sRGB
- Web-safe colors
- YUV
- Look-up Tables
- Apple Color 3D LUT (.mga)
- AutoDesk 3D LUT (.3dl)
- Common LUT Format (.clf)
- cineSpace LUT (.csp)
- LUTS Look-up Tables (.cube)
- SPI LUT (.spi1d, .spi3d)
[edit] Compression
Graphics compression algorithms, special-purpose compressed graphics formats, etc.
See also Compression, for general-purpose algorithms.
- Brunsli
- CCITT Group 3
- CCITT Group 4
- DCT compression (e.g. lossy JPEG)
- Genus Graphics Library
- GIFBLAST (.gfb)
- Gifpress (.gps)
- ImageZero
- JBIG
- JBIG2
- JPEG
- JPEG 2000 codestream
- JPEG-LS
- Lepton
- LOCO-I (Low Complexity Lossless Compression for Images)
- MAG (GIF archiver)
- Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
- Modified Huffman
- Modified Modified READ
- Modified READ
- NeXT 2-bit RLE
- PackBits
- packJPG (.pjg)
- packPNM (.ppn)
- PKP
- Rawzor
- RK Image (.rki)
- Run-length colour encoding (T.45)
- Run-length encoding
- StuffIt Image Format (SIF)
- ThunderScan compression
- UHIC
- Wavelet compression
[edit] Icon, Cursor, and Avatar files
(Formats often used for icons, cursors, avatars, thumbnails, etc.)
- Amiga Workbench icon (.info)
- AMOS Icon Bank
- ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)
- Apple File and App Icons
- CompuLog
- CUR (Microsoft Windows cursors)
- CursorFX
- CursorXP
- DEGAS Elite icon (.icn)
- EPOC AIF
- Favicon
- Foto-Mosaic-Edda Database
- GEM resource file (.rsc)
- GlowIcons
- Graphic Workshop Thumbnail (.thn)
- Haiku Vector Icon Format
- HP 100LX/200LX icon (.icn)
- HTA (Hemera)
- ICDRAW icon
- ICN (FM Towns)
- ICNS (Apple/Macintosh Icon)
- ICO (Microsoft Windows icons)
- Icon Heaven library (.fim)
- Icon library
- Icon library (Easy Icons) (.icl)
- Icon library (hDC Icon Designer) (.il)
- Icon library (Impact Software) (.icl)
- Icon library (Norton Icon Editor) (.nil)
- Icon Manager icon archive (.ica)
- IconPackager (.zip, .iptheme, .ip, .iconpackager)
- IconVG (.ivg)
- Ikon (Bell Labs)
- Image Gallery (Alchemy Mindworks) (.gal)
- Imageiio/imaginfo (Ulead) (.pe3, .pe4)
- Image Librarian (.ril)
- iThmb (iOS thumbnail images)
- Lotus Smart Icon (.smi)
- Magic Desk icon (.icn)
- Micrografx Icon (.icn)
- MonkeyLogo
- MTN (Monu-CAD thumbnail) (.mtn)
- NeoDesk icon (.nic)
- NewIcons
- Nokia Group Graphic (.ngg)
- Nokia Logo Manager bitmap (.nlm)
- Nokia Operator Logo (.nol)
- Nokia Picture Message (.npm)
- Nokia Startup Logo (.nsl)
- OLPC 565
- OS/2 Icon
- OS/2 Pointer (.ptr)
- PaintShop Pro Browser Cache (pspbrwse.jbf)
- Photoshop Thumbnail Cache
- PixFolio catalog
- Portfolio catalog
- RIPscrip Icon (RIPterm Image, .icn)
- Sony Mavica 411
- SRF (Garmin vehicle)
- Sun icon
- SuperJPG thumbnail cache (superjpg.tnc)
- ThumbsPlus database
- ToyBox icon
- Windows thumbnail cache (Thumbs.db)
- Xbox Live Avatar
- Xcursor
- X-Face
- XV thumbnail
- ZoomBrowser Ex thumbnail cache (ZbThumbnail.info)
[edit] Metadata Formats
- AFCP
- Exif
- IPTC-IIM (or NAA)
- IPTC Photo Metadata
- MakerNote
- MIX
- net.CyberCards
- Photoshop Image Resources
- SAUCE
- XMP
[edit] Online/Networked Formats
(while any image format can be used online and through a network, these are specifically designed to be accessed remotely via an API)
[edit] Programming languages
(Graphic-specific programming languages; see Programming Languages for general languages)
- Anim8or Scripting Language
- Blitz3D
- CEEMAC
- High Level Shading Language (HLSL) (uses byte array header files)
- OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
- PostScript
- Processing
- RenderWare object (.rwx)
- SCODL
[edit] Raster Graphics Formats
- AAI (Dune image)
- ABC (LEADTOOLS) (Advanced Bitonal Compression)
- Abekas YUV (.yuv) (Diskus and Quantel QNV varieties of YUV files are apparently similar)
- Ability Office PhotoPaint (.apx)
- ACDSee Image (.apd, .acdc)
- Acorn Sprite
- ADEX IMG
- ADRG
- Advanced Art Studio
- Affinity Photo (.afphoto)
- AFLI-Editor
- AIPD
- Alias PIX
- Alpha Microsystems BMP
- Amber ARR Bitmap Image
- Amica Paint
- AMOS Picture Bank
- AMOS Sprite Bank
- Analyze AVW
- Animator PIC/CEL
- Animator Pro PIC
- Anime 4ever slideshow
- ANSI 379
- ANSI 381
- AP*
- Apac3 APP
- Aperio SVS
- Apple volume label image
- Applixware Bitmap
- APT
- ARF (Axon Raw Format)
- ARN (Astronomical Research Network)
- ART (AOL compressed image)
- ART (PFS: First Publisher)
- Art Director
- ArtMaster88
- Async Professional Fax (.apf)
- AtariCAD (.drg)
- AtariGraphics
- Atari Graphics Studio
- Atari Interlaced Studio
- AtariTools-800
- ATR (ZX Spectrum)
- Augmented PFM
- AVIF
- AVS X image
- Award BIOS logo
- AWD (Artweaver)
- AWD (At Work Document)
- BBC Micro mode image
- BCIF
- BEF
- BFLI
- BGI image
- BIF (byLight)
- BIF (Image Alchemy)
- BigTIFF
- BioRad confocal image
- Blazing Paddles (.pi, .wnd)
- BLP
- BMF (Dmitry Shkarin)
- BMG (Bert's Coloring Programs)
- BMI (Zoner)
- BMP (Windows BMP and OS/2 BMP)
- Bob ray tracer bitmap
- Border Screen
- BPG
- BRender PIX
- BRUHIFF
- BSAVE Image
- BSB (BSB/KAP)
- BSP (ZX Spectrum)
- BTPC
- Bugbiter APAC239i
- CADRG
- Calamus Raster Graphic (.crg)
- CALS raster
- Casio CAM (.cam)
- Canvas (Atari) (.cpt, .cnv)
- Cartesian Perceptual Compression (CPC)
- CD5 (Chasys Draw)
- CD-I IFF IMAG
- CDU-Paint
- Centauri Logo Editor
- CgBI
- CH$
- Champions' Interlace
- CharPad
- Cheese (.che)
- Cineon
- Cisco IP Phone image
- Clear
- Cloé picture
- CMP
- CMU Andrew Toolkit image (.cmu)
- CMU Window Manager bitmap
- COKE (Atari Falcon)
- ColoRIX (RIX)
- ColorViewSquash (.rgb)
- C.O.L.R. Object Editor
- CompuServe RLE
- ComputerEyes
- Corel Photo House (.cps)
- Corel Photo-Paint image (.cpt)
- Corel Wavelet (.wi)
- CPA (PRISM)
- CPI (ColorLab)
- Crack Art (.ca1, .ca2, .ca3)
- CUPS Raster
- CUT (Amstrad)
- Cyber Paint Cell
- Dali
- DataShow GRA
- DataShow Sprite
- DaVinci
- DCS (Desktop Color Separation)
- DCT (Crash Barrier)
- DCX (ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush)
- DEGAS Elite brush
- DEGAS image (.pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3)
- DelmPaint
- DeskMate Paint (.pnt)
- DeskPic
- DESR VFF
- Dexxa TIFF
- DGI (Digi-Pic)
- D-GRAPH
- DICOM (.dcm)
- Diddle sketch
- DiddleBug sketch
- Digi Paint
- DIN
- DirectDraw Surface (.dds)
- DjVu
- DM2
- DM3
- DM4
- DNG
- Doodle (Atari) (.doo)
- Doodle! (C64) (.dd, .jj)
- Doré Raster
- DPX (SMTPE DPX)
- Draw256 (.vga)
- DrawIt (Atari)
- Drazlace
- Drazpaint (.drz, .drp)
- Dr. Halo CUT
- Dr. Halo PIC
- DUO
- DuneGraph
- DVI (Intel DVI, Digital Video Interface, Intel Real-Time Video)
- ECI Graphic Editor
- Eclipse TILE
- ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet)
- EggPaint (.trp)
- Elecard Wavelet Image (.wlt)
- Enhanced Simplex (.esm)
- Envision
- EPOC MBM (Symbian Multibitmap)
- EPOC Sketch
- EPSILON
- Epson Printer Bitmaps
- ERDAS Imagine IMG
- ERDAS LAN/GIS
- ERI (Lashade Entis)
- ER Mapper Raster (.ers)
- Esm Software PIX
- Extended DEGAS image
- EZ-Art Professional
- Face Painter (.fpt, .fcp)
- FaceSaver
- Falcon True Color (.ftc)
- farbfeld
- Fastgraph Pixel Run Format
- FastSpr sprite file
- FAXX (IFF-FAXX)
- FBM image (Fuzzy Bitmap)
- FFLI
- FIASCO
- FIF (Fractal Image Format)
- Fireworks PNG (Adobe)
- FL32 (FilmLight)
- FlashPix (.fpx)
- Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
- Flexible Line Interpretation (FLI)
- FLIF
- FLI Graph
- FLIP
- FLI Profi
- Floor Designer
- FMAC2COM
- FONTASY graphics
- FRA (Fractint)
- Freedom of Press
- FSH (EA Sports)
- FUIF
- Fullscreen Construction Kit
- Funpaint
- Fun with Art
- G9B
- GAF (Total Annihilation)
- GD image format
- GD2 image format
- GED
- GEM Raster (.img)
- GEM-View Dither
- Gephard Hires Graphics
- geoPaint
- GeoTIFF
- GFA Artist (.art)
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
- GIFEXE
- Giga Cad
- Gigascreen
- GIMP Animated Brush (.gih)
- GIMP Brush (.gbr)
- GIMP Pattern (.pat)
- GLE
- GoDot (.4bt)
- GodPaint (.god)
- GR*
- GRABBER
- Graph2Font
- Graphics Processor
- Graphic Workshop self-displaying picture
- Graph Saurus
- Grass' Slideshow
- GrayPaint
- GRF (Amstrad)
- GRFX
- GRIB (Gridded Binary)
- GROB
- Gunpaint
- GX1
- GX2
- Hard Interlace Picture
- HCI
- HEIF
- Hemera Photo-Object
- Hi-Eddi (.hed)
- Hi-Pic Creator (.hpc)
- hipix
- HIPS
- Hires-Bitmap
- Hires FLI Designer
- Hires Interlace
- Hires Manager
- HiRes Player Missile
- HLR
- HMR (Bentley Systems bitmap file, connected in some way to GeoTIFF)
- HP Paintjet
- HP Photo Album
- HR (TRS-80) (.hr)
- HRU
- HS2
- HSI JPEG
- HSI Raw
- HTC splashscreen (also known as NB format)
- IBM Audio Visual Connection (AVC) Still Video Image
- IBM KIPS bitmap
- ICE (Atari)
- ICR (NCSA Telnet)
- IFF-DEEP
- ILBM (IFF, LBM, HAM, ACBM, etc.)
- Image Cytometry Standard (.ics)
- Image Exchange Format
- Image System
- ImageWise Picture
- Imagic Film/Picture (Atari ST)
- IMG/HDR (Analyze 7.5)
- IMG Scan
- Img Software Set
- ImgStar
- IMPACJ (.imj)
- IndyPaint (.tru)
- ING 15
- Inset PIX
- InShape IIM
- Insta360 INSP (.insp)
- INT95a
- Intergraph Raster
- Interlace Graphics Editor
- Interlace Hires Editor
- Interlace Logo Designer
- Interleaf image
- InterPainter
- IPI
- IPLab (Image Processing Lab)
- IRIS CMYK Front End Processor CT
- Island Graphics TIFF
- IWC (WaveL)
- J Wavelet Image Codec (.wic)
- J6I (Ricoh Digital Camera image file)
- JAM (compressed image)
- JAM (Disney's Aladdin)
- JBIG
- JBIG2
- JEDMICS C4
- Jeff's Image Format
- Jet Graphics Planner
- JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)
- JNG (JPEG Network Graphics)
- Jovian Logic VI
- JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1 Annex I)
- JPC (LuraWave)
- JPEG (JPEG Interchange Format, .jpg)
- JPEG 360
- JPEG 2000
- JPEG 2000 codestream (.j2k, .j2c, .jpc)
- JPEG-HDR
- JPEG-LS
- JPEG Pleno
- JPEG XL
- JPEG XR (HD Photo)
- JPEG XS
- JPEG XT
- JPEGT
- JPM (JPEG 2000 Part 6: Compound Image Format)
- JPS
- JPX (JPEG 2000 Part 2: Extensions, .jpf)
- KEA
- KFX (Atari graphics format)
- KIFF
- KiSS CEL
- Koala MicroIllustrator
- KoalaPainter (.koa, .gg)
- Kolor Raw (.kro)
- Kompresor do Animatora
- KQP
- Krita (.kra)
- KSS-Paint
- KTX
- KYG
- Larka Edytor Obiekt
- LazPaint (.lzp)
- LdPic
- LERC
- LIFF (Openlab Layered Image File Format)
- Lightning Strike (.cod)
- LightWork Image (.lwi)
- Lisp Machine Bitmap
- Little Draw (.ldw)
- Logo-Painter
- Lossless JPEG (original)
- Lotus Manuscript graphics (.bit)
- LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
- LSS16
- Lucasfilm picture (.lff)
- Ludek Maker
- Lumena CEL
- Lumena PIX/BPX
- LuraDocument Format (.ldf)
- LuraWave (LWF)
- MacPaint
- Mad Designer
- Mad Studio
- MAG (File Magic)
- MagicDraw
- Magic Painter
- Magick Persistent Cache (MPC)
- MAKIchan Graphics (.mag)
- Mamut
- Mapletown Network
- Marco Pixel Editor
- Maya IFF
- McPainter
- MCS
- MDA/MDP (MicroDesign Area/Page)
- MDI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)
- MDP (FireAlpaca and Medibang Paint)
- MegaPaint BLD
- MetaMorph Stack (.stk)
- MGR bitmap
- MIAF
- Micro Illustrator
- Microsoft Image Composer (.mic)
- MIF (MAXpaint)
- MIF (MSX)
- MIFF (Magick Image File Format)
- MIG
- MIX (Picture It!)
- Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
- MLDF
- Mono Magic
- Movie Maker
- MPH (MonkeyPhoto)
- MRF (Monochrome Recursive Format)
- MrSID
- MSP (Microsoft Paint)
- MSX BASIC graphics
- MTV ray tracer bitmap
- MultiArtist
- Multicolor (Commodore 64 graphic mode)
- Multicolor (ZX Spectrum)
- Multi-Lace Editor
- Multi Palette Picture (MPP)
- Multi-Picture Format (MPO)
- Naïve Image Formats (NIE)
- NAS
- NASA Raster Metafile
- National Imagery Transmission Format (NITFS, NITF, .ntf)
- NEOchrome (.neo)
- NEOchrome Master
- Nero CoverDesigner (.ncd, .nct)
- Netpbm formats (PBM, PGM, PPM, PNM)
- NETPIC
- Newsroom, The
- NIFF (Navy Image File Format)
- NIFF (xloadimage)
- NIST IHead (.pct)
- NPZ (Npic)
- NV12 (a YUV format)
- NXI
- OpenEXR (.exr)
- OpenRaster (.ora)
- OPTIKS COM image
- Oric HIRES screen
- OS/2 Bitmap Array
- OS/2 bitmap family
- OS/2 Boot Logo
- OTA bitmap (Nokia Over The Air, .otb)
- P4I
- PabloPaint
- PABX background
- Paint Magic
- Paint.NET image (.pdn)
- Painter RIFF (.rif)
- Painter PIX (.pix)
- Painter's Apprentice
- PaintPro
- PaintShop (Atari ST)
- PaintShop Pro (.psp, .jsl, .pfr, .tub)
- PaintTool SAI
- Paintworks
- Palette Master
- Palm bitmap
- Palm Database ImageViewer / FireViewer PDB (.pdb)
- Paradox (graphics)
- PAX (Pick Ax)
- PCIF (.pcf)
- PCO B16
- PCPaint BSAVE
- PCPaint CLP
- PCPaint PIC (a.k.a. Pictor)
- PCR image
- PCX (PC Paintbrush)
- PDS (NASA Planetary Data System, .img, .imq)
- PDS4
- Pegasus PIC
- Pegasus PIC2
- PEP (Prediction-Encoded Pixels)
- Perfect Pix
- PFM (Portable Float Map)
- PFS (Portable Floatmap Stream)
- PGC (Portfolio Graphics Compressed)
- PGF (Portfolio Graphics)
- PGF (Progressive Graphics File)
- PGX (JPEG 2000)
- PHM
- Photo CD (.pcd)
- PhotoChrome (.pcs)
- PhotoDefiner
- Compression PhotoDefiner (.cpd)
- Graphic PhotoDefiner (.gpd)
- Joint PhotoDefiner (.jpd)
- PhotoDeluxe (.pdd)
- PhotoImpact
- PhotoParade slideshow (.php, .4pp)
- Photoshop brush (.abr)
- PhotoSuite Project (.pzp)
- Pi
- PIC (Yanagisawa)
- PIC2
- Picasso 64 (.p64)
- PIC Editor (Andrei Romanov)
- PictureGear Pocket
- Picture Packer
- Picture Publisher
- PIF (Portable Image Format)
- PIK
- PIX (PIcture in teXt)
- Pixar picture (.pxr)
- PixArt
- PixelPaint (SuperMac)
- Pixel Perfect
- Pixel Studio (FileStream) (.ibw)
- Pixia (.pxa)
- PIXIT
- Pixlr document (*.pxd)
- PKI (ImgFun)
- PKM
- PL4
- Plan 9 Image
- PLD (PhotoLine)
- PM (XV image)
- PMG Designer
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- PNG Plus (Microsoft Picture It!)
- Pocket PC Bitmap (.2bp)
- Portable Arbitrary Map (PAM)
- Portable Bitmap Format (PBF)
- Poser Bump Map (.bum)
- PowerGraphics
- PRF (Polychrome Recursive Format)
- Printfox bitmap
- PrintMaster
- PrintPartner (.gph)
- Print Shop, The
- Print-Technik
- Prism Paint (.pnt)
- PSB (Adobe Photoshop, large format)
- PSD (Adobe Photoshop)
- PSF (PhotoStudio)
- Psion PIC
- PTG (ArtRage)
- Public Painter
- Puzzle image (X11)
- PVR Texture
- PWC (Piecewise-Constant Image Model)
- PWG Raster
- PXM (Pixelmator)
- Q0
- QDV (Giffer)
- QOIR
- QRT Ray Tracer bitmap
- QTIF (QuickTime image file, .qif)
- QTL (YUV SECAM or PAL image)
- Quake 2 Texture (.wal)
- Quantel VPB image
- QuantumPaint (.pbx)
- Quite OK Image Format (.qoi)
- Radiance HDR (RGBE, XYZE, .hdr, .pic)
- RAG-D
- Rainbow Painter
- RAMbrandt
- Raster Master RAW
- Raw bitmap
- RDIB
- REKO Cardset
- Rembrandt
- RGB Intermediate Format
- RGFX
- RLA (Wavefront)
- RLI (RealWorld)
- Rocky Interlace Picture
- RUN Paint
- SAMAR Hires Interlace
- SAM Coupé Mode 4
- Saracen Paint (.sar)
- SBIG CCDOPS image
- Scitex CT
- SCR (ZX Spectrum)
- ScreenShot Hack
- Seattle FilmWorks (.sfw, .pwp)
- Secret Photos puzzle (.xp0)
- Segmented Hypergraphics (.shg, .mrb)
- Separations output format
- Serif PhotoPlus (.spp)
- SGI (IRIS, RGB)
- SGX (SView Graphics, SuperView Graphics)
- SHP (Loadstar)
- Signum! Compressed Image (IMC)
- SIMIS (.ace)1
- Sinbad Slideshow
- Sinclair QL screen
- Sixel
- Sketch-PadDles
- SlideShow for VBXE
- Slow-scan television (.hrz)
- Softimage PIC
- Sony PictureGear Studio
- Spaceward Graphics / Satori (.r, .rir)
- Spectrum 512 Extended (.spx)
- Spectrum 512 formats (.spu, .spc, .sps)
- SPIF
- SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format)
- Spooky Sprites
- Sprite Master
- SpritePad
- STAD PAC
- Standard Archive Format (military missile data format that includes images among other data)
- Standard Graphics 3 (Atari)
- Starbase bitmap file
- Star Painter
- STiNG (.stn)
- STL (ZX Spectrum)
- Stop Press Canvas
- Storyboard PIC/CAP
- STOS memory bank (.mbk)
- Structured Fax File (.sff)
- Sun Raster (.ras, .sun)
- Sun TAAC image
- Super IRG
- SXG (ZX Spectrum)
- Syberia Texture (.syj)
- SymbOS graphic (.sgx)
- Synthetic Arts
- Synu (Synthetic Universe)
- TAP (Tencent)
- Taquart Interlace Picture
- TealPaint
- Technicolor Dream
- TelePaint/Splash graphics (.ss)
- Texture Maker0
- TG4 (Image Machines)
- TGA (Truevision Targa image)
- TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
- TIFF/EP
- TIFF-FX
- TIFF/IT
- TilePic
- Tilez texture
- TIM (PlayStation graphics)
- TIM2
- Tiny Stuff
- TI picture file
- Title-Maker
- TkImg RAW
- TLG (associated with KiriKiri Adventure Game System)
- Tobias Richter Fullscreen Slideshow (.pci)
- Tricolor RGB
- True Paint I
- Trzmiel
- TXS
- Unirast (Apple AirPrint)
- UPX/TPX (Photo Express)
- Utah RLE
- Valve Texture Format (.vtf)
- VBM (VDC BitMap)
- VEGX
- VertiZontal Interlacing
- Verity Image (.vif)
- V.Flash PTX
- VGAPaint 386 COM Program
- VGAPaint 386 PCX Self-Extracting Picture
- VICAR
- Vidcom 64 (.vid)
- VIFF (Khoros Visualization, .xv)
- VIPS (.v)
- Vidig Paint
- Vista data file
- VITec
- Vivid IMG
- VORT file
- WBMP (Wireless Bitmap)
- WebP
- WebP 2
- Webshots picture (.wbz, .wb1, .wbd, .wbc, .wbp)
- WGT Block
- WGT Sprite
- WhyPic (.ypc)
- Wigmore Artist 64
- Windows clipboard (.clp)
- Windows DDB
- WinFax Fax Image
- WinFax Cover Page
- WinMiPS
- Winzle Puzzle
- Wiz Solitaire
- WLM (also known as CompW)
- WOBA (bitmap data extracted from a HyperCard stack)
- Word for DOS screen capture (.scr)
- WPB (openCanvas)
- WSQ
- XBM (X BitMap)
- XCF (GIMP image)
- Xerox Doodle brush
- Xerox EDMICS-MMR
- Xerox EDMICS-RLC
- XGA (Falcon)
- XIFF
- Xim
- XLD4 (.q4)
- XL-Paint
- XPM (X PixMap)
- XWD (X Window Dump)
- XYZ (RPG Maker)
- xRes (.lrg)
- YBM (Bennet Yee's face format)
- Young Picasso (.yp)
- Zeiss BIVAS
- Zoomify PFF
- Zoomify ZIF
- Zpng
- ZX-Paintbrush
- ZXpaintyONE
- ZZ ROUGH
[edit] Skins / Themes
(Used to give custom styles, appearances, and themes to software; might be bundled with Icon, Cursor, and Avatar files consistent with the theme)
- BootSkin Vista
- BootSkin XP
- eRocket Skin (.skn)
- Huawei Theme (.hwt)
- Microsoft Comic Chat
- Nokia Theme (.nth)
- Pocket PC Theme (.tsk)
- Sony Ericsson Theme (.thm)
- Stardock Tiles Skin
- Winamp Skin
- Windows Media Player Skin Package (.wmz)
- Winstep Xtreme theme
[edit] Software
(Applications, utilities, libraries, and APIs for graphic manipulation)
Refer to Graphics software.
[edit] Vector Graphics Formats
(Including most "metafile" formats. Vector formats often support embedded raster images, and other objects that aren't actually vectors.)
- 2DL (ARCHICAD 2D Lines)
- Acorn Draw
- Adobe Illustrator Artwork (.ai)
- Adobe Illustrator Exchange (.aix)
- Affinity Designer (.afdesign)
- Amiga Metafile (.amf)
- AniST (.scr, .str)
- Applixware Graphics
- ArtPro (.ap)
- Arts & Letters clip art library (.yal)
- Arts & Letters graphics file (.ged)
- ArtWorks
- AutoCAD Slide
- AutoCAD Slide Library
- AutoSketch (.skd)
- Calamus Vector Graphic (.cvg)
- CCX (Corel)
- CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
- CMX (Corel Presentation Exchange)
- CorelChart (.cch)
- Corel Designer (.des)
- CorelDRAW (.cdr, .cdx, .cdt)
- Corel Gallery (.bmf)
- CorelMOSAIC library (.clb, .clh)
- DataDiagrammingML (Microsoft XML-based format)
- DeskMate Draw (.fig)
- Dia
- DR2D
- DrawingML (Microsoft embedded graphics in XML Office formats)
- DrawIt
- DrawPlus
- DrawStudio (Amiga)
- DRAWX Vector Graphics (.vec)
- Embedded Vector Editor (.eve)
- Encapsulated PostScript (.eps, .epsf, .epsi)
- Enhanced Metafile (.emf)
- ER Mapper Vector (.erv)
- Expression Design (.xpr, .design)
- Fig (Xfig format)
- FreeHand (Aldus/Adobe)
- FXG
- GEM VDI Metafile (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
- Gerber format (used in printed circuit design)
- Graphics Magician Picture Painter, The
- GraphicConverter format (.gcimgd)
- GST ART (.art)
- Haiku Vector Icon Format
- Harvard Graphics
- IconVG
- IDW (IntelliDraw)
- In-A-Vision (.pic)
- KwikDraw (.kwk)
- LEONARD's Sketch
- Lotus 1-2-3 Chart (.pic)
- MacDraw (later ClarisDraw)
- Mayura Draw (.md, .pdx)
- mDraw (S. Mike Dierken)
- Micrografx Draw
- Microsoft Office Drawing
- Microsoft Chart
- MIX (PhotoDraw)
- MVG
- MyDraw (.ndx, .ndb, .ndtx, .nlx, .nlb)
- NAPLPS (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax)
- NeoDraw
- NetMeeting Whiteboard
- Notability
- ObjectGraphics OGL
- OpenDocument Drawing (.odg)
- PDL (Trionum)
- Picroma Plasma
- PICT (Macintosh graphics)
- Pixie (.pxi)
- PLOT-10 (Tektronix)
- Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML)
- Presentation Manager Metafile (MET)
- Print Artist (.gfx) (also known as Instant Artist)
- Professional Draw
- ProShape
- PWDraw
- Satori Canvas (.cvs) - See Spaceward Graphics
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- SDA (StarOffice)
- SDW (AmiDraw)
- Shapefile
- Simple Vector Format (SVF)
- sK1
- Skencil SK
- Sketch
- SXD
- Sxz (hybrid vector/raster)
- TIFF annotation data
- TinyVG
- Top Draw (.tdr)
- UNIX Plot Format
- Visio (.vsd, .vss, .vst)
- VML (Vector Markup Language)
- Windows Metafile (.wmf)
- WinDraw (John D. Keene)
- WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg)
- Xar (Flare)
- XVT-Draw
- ZBR (Zoner Zebra)
- ZMF (Zoner)
See also:
[edit] Miscellaneous or Uncategorized
(Formats which don't fit into another category, or still need to be categorized)
- AAE sidecar format (Apple iOS 8 / OS X Yosemite)
- ABBYY Finereader
- Adobe Acrobat Capture (.acd)
- Anaglyph 3D format
- Aperture library
- Apple Preferred (APF)
- ART (Build Engine ART)
- BodyPaint 3D (Maxon: .b3d)
- Chyron
- Deep Zoom
- Deep Zoom image (.dzi)
- Smart Zoom Image (.szi)
- DeltaVision (medical microscopy format)
- Fineprint (.fp)
- Garc archive
- HDF (Hierarchical Data Format)
- ImageLab/PrintTechnic
- Kai's Power Tools
- kitty graphics protocol [1]
- KONTRON (embedded-systems company; apparently has graphic format of its own)
- Liberty IM
- Lightroom catalog (.lrcat)
- Manga Studio
- Media Pro (.ivc, .mpcatalog)
- MonkeyCard
- NeatReceipts (.nrx, .nrf, .nrt)
- Nintendo Wii TPL
- Nova AEX (.aex)
- OmniForm
- OmniPage
- PaperPort (MAX)
- Piskel canvas
- QDV (Random Dot Software)
- RMC
- Second Nature Screensaver Graphic (.snx)
- Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit
- StarOffice Gallery
- StartupScreen (Macintosh SCRN, .scrn?)
- tldraw (.tldr)
- Turbo Rascal Syntax Error
[edit] Links and Resources
- Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
- World's first computer art (1950s pinup image)
- Art created with atoms
- XGA: A New Graphics Standard
- Michael Abrash’s Graphics Programming Black Book, Special Edition
- Squarespace logo designer tool (Want a logo for a silly dot-com company you're starting? Create one here!)
- Unconventional Pixel Furniture Adding Intrigue to Modern Rooms
- See how to debunk viral photos in seconds using image search
- Getty's free image embedding comes at a price
- Image optimization tools
- Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Still Image Works
- The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing
- Image File Extensions in the Wide Web Scrape
- Databending effects of editing images with a sound editor
- Perceptual Hashing
- Retrospecs: iOS app to convert images to imitate old 8-bit systems' graphics
- A Pixel Is Not A Little Square
- Serve deepzoom images from a zip archive with openseadragon
- Know When to Use Image File Types: JPEG, GIF & PNG
- Can we programatically compare different images of same resolutions?
- 20 Best Color Palette Tools for Web and Graphic Designers
- How "oldschool" graphics worked, Part 1 · Part 2 (videos)
- Completely Painless Programmer's Guide to XYZ, RGB, ICC, xyY, and TRCs
- Potrace: Transforming bitmaps into vector graphics
- About a 1x1 image in many file formats
- Tom's Editor: Free online image converted. About 500 formats supported
- WhatIs.Rest7: Image formats explained. Lots of samples
- Image libraries for PHP: BMP, DDS, TGA, PNM, PGM, PBM
- Lots of images from Atari
