Graphics

File Format
Name	Graphics
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics ; ;
	Mona Lisa

Electronic Formats concerned with Image Data.

See also:

Adjustment data

AAE sidecar format (Apple iOS 8 / OS X Yosemite)

Animated image formats

Character-based graphics

See Character encoding for details of character sets, some of which include graphical or line-and-box-drawing characters.

ANSI Art (.ans)
AN2
ArtWorx Data Format (.adf)
ASCII Art
AVATAR (FidoNet)
BIN (Binary Text)
BSAVE Image
iCEDraw (.idf)
NAPLPS (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax)
PCBoard (.pcb)
RIPscrip (or RIPscript)
TUNDRA (.tnd)
XBIN (.xb)

Colors

(Profiles, color spaces, palettes, swatches)

Comics creation

Manga Studio

Compression

Special-purpose compression algorithms and formats that may be used in multiple image file formats.

See also Compression, for general-purpose algorithms.

CCITT Group 3
CCITT Group 4
DCT compression (e.g. lossy JPEG)
JBIG
JBIG2
JPEG
JPEG 2000 codestream
JPEG-LS
LOCO-I (Low Complexity Lossless Compression for Images)
Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
Modified Huffman
Modified Modified READ
Modified READ
NeXT 2-bit RLE
PackBits
Run-length colour encoding (T.45)
Run-length encoding
ThunderScan compression
Wavelet compression

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
CUR (Microsoft Windows cursors)
DEGAS Elite icon (.icn)
EPOC AIF
Favicon
GEM resource file (.rsc)
GlowIcons
HP 100LX/200LX icon (.icn)
ICDRAW icon
ICNS (Apple/Macintosh Icon)
ICO (Microsoft Windows icons)
Icon library (.icl)
iThmb (iOS thumbnail images)
Micrografx Icon (.icn)
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)
RIPscrip Icon (RIPterm Image, .icn)
Sony Mavica 411
Sun icon
SuperJPG thumbnail cache (superjpg.tnc)
Windows thumbnail cache (Thumbs.db)
Xbox Live Avatar
Xcursor
X-Face
XV thumbnail
ZoomBrowser Ex thumbnail cache (ZbThumbnail.info)

Metadata Formats

Programming languages (graphic-specific)

CEEMAC
High Level Shading Language (HLSL) (uses byte array header files)
OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
Processing

Raster Graphics Formats

AAI (Dune image)
Abekas YUV (.yuv) (Diskus and Quantel QNV varieties of YUV files are apparently similar)
Ability Office PhotoPaint (.apx)
Acorn Sprite
ADRG
AIPD
Alias PIX
Alpha Microsystems BMP
Amber ARR Bitmap Image
AMOS Picture Bank
AMOS Sprite Bank
Analyze AVW
Aperio SVS
Apple volume label image
ARF (Axon Raw Format)
ART (AOL compressed image)
ART (PFS: First Publisher)
Async Professional Fax (.apf)
AVS X image
Award BIOS logo
AWD (Artweaver)
AWD (At Work Document)
BCIF
BFLI
BGI image
BigTIFF
BioRad confocal image
BMP (Windows BMP)
Bob ray tracer bitmap
BPG
BRender PIX
BSAVE Image
CADRG
Calamus Raster Graphic (.crg)
CALS raster
Canvas (Atari)‎ (.cpt, .cnv)
Cartesian Perceptual Compression (CPC)
CD5 (Chasys Draw)
CgBI
Cineon
Cisco IP Phone image
CMU Andrew Toolkit image (.cmu)
CMU Window Manager bitmap
ColoRIX (RIX)
CompuServe RLE
CompW
Corel Photo-Paint image (.cpt)
Crack Art (.ca1, .ca2, .ca3)
CUT (Amstrad)
DCS (Desktop Color Separation)
DCX (ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush)
DEGAS image (.pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3)
DGI (Digi-Pic)
DICOM (.dcm)
Diddle sketch
DiddleBug sketch
DirectDraw Surface (.dds)
DjVu
DNG
Doodle (Atari) (.doo)
Doodle! (C64) (.dd, .jj)
Doré Raster
DPX (SMTPE DPX)
Dr. Halo (.cut)
DVI (Intel DVI, Digital Video Interface, Intel Real-Time Video)
ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet)
EggPaint (.trp)
Enhanced Simplex (.esm)
EPOC MBM (Symbian Multibitmap)
EPOC Sketch
Epson Printer Bitmaps
Extended DEGAS image
FaceSaver
Falcon True Color (.ftc)
farbfeld
FAXX
FBM image (Fuzzy Bitmap)
FFLI
FIASCO
FIF (Fractal Image Format)
FlashPix (.fpx)
Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
Flexible Line Interpretation (FLI)
FLIF
FRA (Fractint)
FSH (EA Sports)
G9B
GEM Raster (.img)
geoPaint
GeoTIFF
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
GIMP Animated Brush (.gih)
GIMP Brush (.gbr)
GIMP Pattern (.pat)
GLE
GoDot (.4bt)
GodPaint (.god)
Graph Saurus
GRF (Amstrad)
GRFX
GRIB (Gridded Binary)
GROB
GX1
GX2
HIPS
HMR (Bentley Systems bitmap file, connected in some way to GeoTIFF)
HP Paintjet
HTC splashscreen (also known as NB format)
IBM KIPS bitmap
ICR (NCSA Telnet)
IFF-DEEP
ILBM (IFF, LBM, HAM, ACBM, etc.)
Image Cytometry Standard (.ics)
Imagic Film/Picture (Atari ST)
IMG/HDR (Analyze 7.5)
Img Software Set
ImgStar
IndyPaint (.tru)
Inset PIX
InShape IIM
Intergraph Raster
Interleaf image
IPI
IRIS CMYK Front End Processor CT
Island Graphics TIFF
IWC (WaveL)
J6I (Ricoh Digital Camera image file)
JBIG
JBIG2
JEDMICS C4
Jeff's Image Format
JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)
JNG (JPEG Network Graphics)
JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1 Annex I)
JPC (LuraWave)
JPEG (JPEG Interchange Format, .jpg)
JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000 codestream (.j2k, .j2c, .jpc)
JPEG-HDR
JPEG-LS
JPEG XR (HD Photo)
JPEG XT
JPM (JPEG 2000 Part 6: Compound Image Format)
JPS
JPX (JPEG 2000 Part 2: Extensions, .jpf)
KIFF
KiSS CEL
KoalaPainter (.koa, .gg)
Kolor Raw (.kro)
LazPaint (.lzp)
LIFF (Openlab Layered Image File Format)
Lightning Strike (.cod)
Lossless JPEG (original)
LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
LSS16
Lucasfilm picture (.lff)
LuraDocument Format (.ldf)
LuraWave (LWF)
MacPaint
Magick Persistent Cache (MPC)
MAKIchan Graphics (.mag)
Maya IFF
MDA/MDP (MicroDesign Area/Page)
MDI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)
MegaPaint BLD
MetaMorph Stack (.stk)
MGR bitmap
Microsoft Image Composer (.mic)
MIF (MSX)
MIFF (Magick Image File Format)
MIX (Picture It!)
Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
MRF (Monochrome Recursive Format)
MrSID
MSP (Microsoft Paint)
MSX BASIC graphics
MTV ray tracer bitmap
Multi Palette Picture (MPP)
Multi-Picture Format (MPO)
NASA Raster Metafile
National Imagery Transmission Format (NITFS, NITF, .ntf)
NEOchrome (.neo)
Nero CoverDesigner (.ncd, .nct)
Netpbm formats (PBM, PGM, PPM, PNM)
Newsroom, The
NIFF (Navy Image File Format)
NIFF (xloadimage)
NIST IHead (.pct)
OpenEXR (.exr)
OpenRaster (.ora)
OS/2 BMP
OTA bitmap (Nokia Over The Air, .otb)
packJPG (.pjg)
Paint.NET image (.pdn)
PaintShop Pro (.psp, .jsl, .pfr, .tub)
Palette Master
Palm bitmap
Palm Database ImageViewer / FireViewer PDB (.pdb)
PAX (Pick Ax)
PCIF (.pcf)
PCO B16
PCPaint CLP
PCPaint PIC (a.k.a. Pictor)
PCX (PC Paintbrush)
PDS (NASA Planetary Data System, .img, .imq)
PDS4
PFM (Portable Float Map)
PFS (Portable Floatmap Stream)
PGC (Portfolio Graphics Compressed)
PGF (Portfolio Graphics)
PGF (Progressive Graphics File)
PGX (JPEG 2000)
Photo CD (.pcd)
PhotoChrome (.pcs)
PhotoParade slideshow (.php, .4pp)
Photoshop brush (.abr)
Pi
PIC (Yanagisawa)
PIC2
Picture Packer
Pixar picture (.pxr)
Pixia (.pxa)
PM (XV image)
Pocket PC Bitmap (.2bp)
Poser Bump Map (.bum)
PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
Portable Arbitrary Map (PAM)
Portable Bitmap Format (PBF)
PRF (Polychrome Recursive Format)
Printfox bitmap
PrintMaster
Print Shop, The
Prism Paint (.pnt)
PSB (Adobe Photoshop, large format)
PSD (Adobe Photoshop)
PSF (PhotoStudio)
Psion PIC
PTG (ArtRage)
Puzzle image (X11)
PWC (Piecewise-Constant Image Model)
QRT Ray Tracer bitmap
QTIF (QuickTime image file, .qif)
Radiance HDR (RGBE, XYZE, .hdr, .pic)
Raw bitmap
RDIB
RLA (Wavefront)
SBIG CCDOPS image
Scitex CT
SCR (ZX Spectrum)
ScreenShot Hack PDB
Seattle FilmWorks (.sfw, .pwp)
Secret Photos puzzle (.xp0)
Segmented Hypergraphics (.shg, .mrb)
SGI (IRIS, RGB)
SGX (SView Graphics, SuperView Graphics)
Sixel
Slow-scan television (.hrz)
Softimage PIC
Spectrum 512 Extended‎ (.spx)
Spectrum 512 formats (.spu, .spc, .sps)
SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format)
Spooky Sprites
STAD PAC
STOS memory bank (.mbk)
Structured Fax File (.sff)
Sun Raster (.ras, .sun)
Sun TAAC image
Synu (Synthetic Universe)
TealPaint PDB
Technicolor Dream
TGA (Truevision Targa image)
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
TIFF/EP
TIFF-FX
TIFF/IT
TIM (PlayStation graphics)
Tiny Stuff
TI picture file
TLG (associated with KiriKiri Adventure Game System)
Unirast (Apple AirPrint)
Utah RLE
VBM (VDC BitMap)
VEGX
V.Flash PTX
VICAR
VIFF (Khoros Visualization, .xv)
VIPS (.v)
Vista data file
Vivid IMG
VORT file
WBMP (Wireless Bitmap)
WebP
Webshots picture (.wbz, .wb1, .wbd, .wbc, .wbp)
WhyPic (.ypc)
Wigmore Artist 64
Windows DDB
WinMiPS
Winzle Puzzle
WOBA (bitmap data extracted from a HyperCard stack)
Word for DOS screen capture (.scr)
WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg)
WPB (openCanvas)
WSQ
XBM (X BitMap)
XCF (GIMP image)
Xerox Doodle brush
Xerox EDMICS-MMR
Xerox EDMICS-RLC
XGA (Falcon)
Xim
XPM (X PixMap)
XWD (X Window Dump)
YBM (Bennet Yee's face format)
Zeiss BIVAS

Raw camera formats

For raw image (digital negative) formats used by cameras (such as .3fr, .ari, .arw, .bay, .cap, .cr2, .crw, .eip, .dcr, .dcs, .drf, .dng, .eip, .erf, .fff, .iiq, .k25, .kdc, .mef, .mos, .mrw, .ndf, .nef, .nrw, .orf, .pef, .ptx, .pxn, .r3d, .raf, .raw, .rw2, .rwl, .rwz, .sr2, .srf, .srw, .x3f), see Cameras and Digital Image Sensors.

Software, utilities, libraries, and APIs for graphic manipulation

IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)
ImageMagick
Netpbm
RECOIL (formerly FAIL)
XnView
Rest7 Online Image Converter

(See Graphic software)

System-specific graphic formats and modes

Vector Graphics Formats

(Including most metafile formats. Vector formats often support embedded raster images, and other objects that aren't actually vectors.)

Acorn Draw
Adobe Illustrator Artwork (.ai)
Arts & Letters clip art library (.yal)
Autodesk Slide
Calamus Vector Graphic (.cvg)
CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
CorelDRAW (.cdr, .cdx, .cdt, .cmx)
DataDiagrammingML (Microsoft XML-based format)
Dia
DrawingML (Microsoft embedded graphics in XML Office formats)
Encapsulated PostScript (.eps, .epsf, .epsi)
Fig (Xfig format)
FreeHand (Aldus/Adobe)
GEM VDI Metafile (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
Gerber format (used in printed circuit design)
Harvard Graphics
Lotus 1-2-3 Chart (.pic)
MacDraw (later ClarisDraw)
Microsoft Office Drawing
MIX (PhotoDraw)
MVG
NAPLPS
OpenDocument Drawing (.odg)
Photoshop Curve (.crv)
PICT (Macintosh graphics)
Pixie (.pxi)
PLOT-10 (Tektronix)
Presentation Manager Metafile (MET)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
SDA (StarOffice)
Shapefile
sK1
Skencil SK
SXD
TIFF annotation data
UNIX Plot Format
Visio (.vsd, .vss, .vst)
VML (Vector Markup Language)
Windows Metafile (.wmf, .emf)
WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg)
Xar (Flare)

For modeling formats (such as IGES, NFF, OFF, POV-Ray, PRT, QRT), see 3D and CAD/CAM Models.

Miscellaneous

(Formats and topics that are clearly identified, but which don't fit into another category, or still need to be categorized)

ANSI escape code
Apple Preferred (APF)
BodyPaint 3D (Maxon: .b3d)
Chyron
DeltaVision (medical microscopy format)
Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
Fax formats
HDF (Hierarchical Data Format)
IBM Audio Visual Connection (AVC) Still Video Image
ImageLab/PrintTechnic
KONTRON (embedded-systems company; apparently has graphic format of its own)
Liberty IM
PaperPort (MAX)
QDV (Random Dot Software Graphic)
Windows Media Player Skin Package (.wmz)

Uncategorized

(Formats that may need to be more clearly identified and named, and moved to other categories)

BSB
BSP
BUF
CAM
CEL
cicn
cri
csource
CWK
DESR VFF
Direct icns
DJ1000
DL
DrawIT
ElectronicImage
GFX (Instant Artist, Print Artist, WarCraft II Image)
GrayPaint
IBL
IBM PIC
Icd5
IM (Chryon Liberty Paint)
IPLab
ISS (unidentified; XnView claims to support it)
MHT
MonkeyCard
MonkeyLogo
NAA/IPTC
Nokia .pict
NV12
Oncor
PDES
PORST
Ppat
QTL (YUV SECAM or PAL image)
RDC (Rollei)
SAF (Standard Archive Format, AMSC Archive Format)
Scrap
SHS
Sinclair QL
SNX
StartupScreen (Macintosh SCRN, .scrn?)
STV
System 7 clip
TBC
TCL
TN
VPB
VPM
Z04, Z08, Z16, Z24, Z32 (z3d)

Unknown

(Formats that are difficult or impossible to identify, and which may be deleted from this page)

.D
NCG
Palette
TEX (Could be any of a number of TEXture formats.)

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