Graphics
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
Electronic Formats concerned with Image Data.
See also:
- 3D and CAD/CAM Models
- 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
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Animated image formats
See also Video.
- ANI (NEOchrome)
- ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)
- ANIM
- Animatic Film (.flm)
- ANSIMation
- APNG
- BAM (Infinity Engine)
- CFAST Disney Animation Studio (.cft)
- Cyber Paint Sequence (.seq)
- DeluxePaint Animation (ANM or Anim)
- DVM (DVM Movie/Magic Software DVM)
- EVA
- FLIC (FLI, FLC)
- GIF
- GIFV
- GFY
- GRASP GL
- IFF-DEEP
- Imagic Film/Picture (Atari ST frames used in animation)
- JPX
- MNG
- PGX (Portfolio)
- PICS
- QTL (YUV SECAM or PAL image)
- Spectrum 512 Anispec
- SWF (Flash)
- XNG
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)
- MZM (.mzm)
- PCBoard (.pcb)
- RIPscrip (or RIPscript)
- TheDraw Save File (.td)
- TUNDRA (.tnd)
- XBIN (.xb)
Colors
(Profiles, color spaces, palettes, swatches)
- Adobe RGB (1998)
- Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase)
- Atari ST color palette
- Commodore 64 color palette
- DNG camera profile
- GIMP Palette
- ICC profile
- Photoshop Curve
- Photoshop Transfer Function
- RIFF Palette File
- sRGB
- Web-safe colors
- YUV
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)
- ImageZero
- JBIG
- JBIG2
- JPEG
- JPEG 2000 codestream
- JPEG-LS
- Lepton
- 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
- packJPG (.pjg)
- packPNM (.ppn)
- PKP
- Rawzor
- 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
- Haiku Vector Icon Format
- 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)
- Photoshop Thumbnail Cache
- 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 programming languages)
- 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
- Applixware Bitmap
- ARF (Axon Raw Format)
- ART (AOL compressed image)
- ART (PFS: First Publisher)
- Async Professional Fax (.apf)
- AVIF
- AVS X image
- Award BIOS logo
- AWD (Artweaver)
- AWD (At Work Document)
- BCIF
- BEF
- BFLI
- BGI image
- BIF (Image Alchemy)
- BigTIFF
- BioRad confocal image
- BMP (Windows BMP and OS/2 BMP)
- Bob ray tracer bitmap
- BPG
- BRender PIX
- BSAVE Image
- BSB (BSB/KAP)
- CADRG
- Calamus Raster Graphic (.crg)
- CALS raster
- Canvas (Atari) (.cpt, .cnv)
- Cartesian Perceptual Compression (CPC)
- CD5 (Chasys Draw)
- CgBI
- Cineon
- Cisco IP Phone image
- Cloé picture
- CMU Andrew Toolkit image (.cmu)
- CMU Window Manager bitmap
- COKE (Atari Falcon)
- ColoRIX (RIX)
- CompuServe RLE
- CompW
- Corel Photo-Paint image (.cpt)
- Crack Art (.ca1, .ca2, .ca3)
- CUPS Raster
- CUT (Amstrad)
- DCS (Desktop Color Separation)
- DCX (ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush)
- DEGAS image (.pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3)
- DESR VFF
- 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
- ERDAS Imagine IMG
- ERDAS LAN/GIS
- ER Mapper Raster (.ers)
- Extended DEGAS image
- FaceSaver
- Falcon True Color (.ftc)
- farbfeld
- FAXX (IFF-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)
- Freedom of Press
- 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
- GrayPaint
- GRF (Amstrad)
- GRFX
- GRIB (Gridded Binary)
- GROB
- GX1
- GX2
- HEIF
- HIPS
- HMR (Bentley Systems bitmap file, connected in some way to GeoTIFF)
- HP Paintjet
- HR (TRS-80) (.hr)
- HS2
- HSI JPEG
- HSI Raw
- 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)
- Image Exchange Format
- 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
- IPLab (Image Processing Lab)
- 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)
- Jovian Logic VI
- 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 XL
- 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)
- Krita (.kra)
- KTX
- LazPaint (.lzp)
- LIFF (Openlab Layered Image File Format)
- Lightning Strike (.cod)
- Lossless JPEG (original)
- Lotus Manuscript graphics (.bit)
- LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
- LSS16
- Lucasfilm picture (.lff)
- Lumena CEL
- Lumena PIX/BPX
- 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)
- NV12 (a YUV format)
- OpenEXR (.exr)
- OpenRaster (.ora)
- OS/2 Bitmap Array
- OS/2 bitmap family
- OS/2 Boot Logo
- OTA bitmap (Nokia Over The Air, .otb)
- PABX background
- Paint.NET image (.pdn)
- PaintShop Pro (.psp, .jsl, .pfr, .tub)
- PaintTool SAI
- 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)
- PhotoDeluxe (.pdd)
- PhotoImpact
- PhotoParade slideshow (.php, .4pp)
- Photoshop brush (.abr)
- Pi
- PIC (Yanagisawa)
- PIC2
- Picture Packer
- Picture Publisher
- Pixar picture (.pxr)
- Pixia (.pxa)
- Pixlr document (*.pxd)
- PLD (PhotoLine)
- PM (XV image)
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- Pocket PC Bitmap (.2bp)
- Portable Arbitrary Map (PAM)
- Portable Bitmap Format (PBF)
- Poser Bump Map (.bum)
- PRF (Fastgraph)
- PRF (Polychrome Recursive Format)
- Printfox bitmap
- PrintMaster
- PrintPartner (.gph)
- 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)
- PWG Raster
- PXM (Pixelmator)
- Q0
- QDV (Giffer)
- QRT Ray Tracer bitmap
- QTIF (QuickTime image file, .qif)
- Quake 2 Texture (.wal)
- Quantel VPB image
- Radiance HDR (RGBE, XYZE, .hdr, .pic)
- Raw bitmap
- RDIB
- RLA (Wavefront)
- SBIG CCDOPS image
- Scitex CT
- SCR (ZX Spectrum)
- ScreenShot Hack
- Seattle FilmWorks (.sfw, .pwp)
- Secret Photos puzzle (.xp0)
- Segmented Hypergraphics (.shg, .mrb)
- SGI (IRIS, RGB)
- SGX (SView Graphics, SuperView Graphics)
- Sinclair QL screen
- Sixel
- Slow-scan television (.hrz)
- Softimage PIC
- Spaceward Graphics / Satori (.r, .rir)
- Spectrum 512 Extended (.spx)
- Spectrum 512 formats (.spu, .spc, .sps)
- SPIF
- SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format)
- Spooky Sprites
- STAD PAC
- Standard Archive Format (military missile data format that includes images among other data)
- STOS memory bank (.mbk)
- Structured Fax File (.sff)
- Sun Raster (.ras, .sun)
- Sun TAAC image
- Synu (Synthetic Universe)
- TAP (Tencent)
- TealPaint
- 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
- Valve Texture Format (.vtf)
- VBM (VDC BitMap)
- VEGX
- Verity Image (.vif)
- V.Flash PTX
- VICAR
- VIFF (Khoros Visualization, .xv)
- VIPS (.v)
- Vista data file
- VITec
- Vivid IMG
- VORT file
- WBMP (Wireless Bitmap)
- WebP
- Webshots picture (.wbz, .wb1, .wbd, .wbc, .wbp)
- WhyPic (.ypc)
- Wigmore Artist 64
- Windows clipboard (.clp)
- Windows DDB
- WinMiPS
- Winzle Puzzle
- 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)
- XPM (X PixMap)
- XWD (X Window Dump)
- YBM (Bennet Yee's face format)
- Zeiss BIVAS
- Zoomify PFF
- Zoomify ZIF
Software
(Applications, utilities, libraries, and APIs for graphic manipulation)
This section lists other articles in this wiki. See Graphic software for a longer list of software.
- AutoCAD
- Farbfeld Utilities
- GraphicConverter
- IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)
- Image Alchemy
- ImageMagick
- Konvertor
- Monu-CAD
- Netpbm
- Photoshop
- RECOIL
- Scribus
- XnView
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)
- Amiga Metafile (.amf)
- Applixware Graphics
- Arts & Letters clip art library (.yal)
- AutoCAD Slide
- AutoCAD Slide Library
- AutoSketch (.skd)
- 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)
- DrawIt
- DRAWX Vector Graphics (.vec)
- Encapsulated PostScript (.eps, .epsf, .epsi)
- Enhanced Metafile (.emf)
- ER Mapper Vector (.erv)
- Fig (Xfig format)
- FreeHand (Aldus/Adobe)
- GEM VDI Metafile (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
- Gerber format (used in printed circuit design)
- Haiku Vector Icon Format
- Harvard Graphics
- Instant Artist GFX (.gfx) (also known as Print Artist)
- Lotus 1-2-3 Chart (.pic)
- MacDraw (later ClarisDraw)
- Micrografx Draw
- Microsoft Office Drawing
- MIX (PhotoDraw)
- MVG
- NAPLPS (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax)
- Notability
- OpenDocument Drawing (.odg)
- PICT (Macintosh graphics)
- Pixie (.pxi)
- PLOT-10 (Tektronix)
- Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML)
- Presentation Manager Metafile (MET)
- Satori Canvas (.cvs) - See Spaceward Graphics
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- SDA (StarOffice)
- Shapefile
- Simple Vector Format (SVF)
- sK1
- Skencil SK
- Sketch
- SXD
- TIFF annotation data
- UNIX Plot Format
- Visio (.vsd, .vss, .vst)
- VML (Vector Markup Language)
- Windows Metafile (.wmf)
- WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg)
- Xar (Flare)
See also:
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)
- ANSI escape code
- Aperture library [1]
- Apple Preferred (APF)
- BodyPaint 3D (Maxon: .b3d)
- Chyron
- DeltaVision (medical microscopy format)
- Encyclopedia of Graphics File 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)
- lcd5
- Liberty IM
- Lightroom catalog (.lrcat) [2]
- Manga Studio
- MonkeyCard
- MonkeyLogo
- PaperPort (MAX)
- Pocket PC Theme (.tsk)
- QDV (Random Dot Software)
- SNX
- StartupScreen (Macintosh SCRN, .scrn?)
- System 7 clip
- Windows Media Player Skin Package (.wmz)
Links and Resources
- Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
- IIIF – The International Image Interoperability Framework
- 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
