Graphics

Electronic Formats concerned with Image Data.

See also:
 * 3D and CAD/CAM Models
 * Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
 * Fonts
 * Geospatial
 * Page description languages
 * Video

Animated image formats
See also Video.


 * ANI (NEOchrome)
 * ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)
 * ANIM
 * APNG
 * DeluxePaint Animation (ANM or Anim)
 * DVM (DVM Movie/Magic Software DVM)
 * FLIC
 * GIF
 * GRASP GL
 * JPX
 * MNG
 * SWF (Flash)

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


 * ANSI Art (.ans)
 * ASCII Art
 * NAPLPS (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax)
 * PCBOARD (.pcb)
 * TUNDRA (.tnd)

Colors
(Profiles, colorspaces, palettes)
 * ICC profile

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
 * LOCO-I (Low Complexity Lossless Compression for Images)
 * Modified Huffman
 * Modified READ
 * Modified Modified READ
 * PackBits
 * Run-length colour encoding (T.45)
 * 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)
 * Favicon
 * GlowIcons
 * ICNS (Apple/Macintosh Icon)
 * ICO (Microsoft Windows icons)
 * Icon library (.icl)
 * iThmb (iOS thumbnail images)
 * NewIcons
 * Nokia Group Graphic (.ngg)
 * Nokia Logo Manager bitmap‎ (.nlm)
 * Nokia Operator Logo (.nol)
 * Nokia Picture Message (.npm)
 * Nokia Startup Logo (.nsl)
 * OS/2 BMP
 * RIPscrip Icon (RIPterm Image, .icn)
 * Sun icon
 * Windows thumbnail cache (Thumbs.db)
 * Xbox Live Avatar

Metadata Formats

 * Exif
 * Exif MakerNote
 * IPTC
 * Photoshop Image Resources
 * XMP

Raster Graphics Formats

 * AAI (Dune image)
 * Abekas YUV (.yuv)
 * Ability Office PhotoPaint (.apx)
 * Acorn Sprite
 * Alias PIX
 * Alpha Microsystems BMP
 * AMOS Sprite Bank
 * ART (AOL compressed image)
 * ART (PFS: First Publisher)
 * AVS X image
 * BigTIFF
 * BioRad (Biorad confocal image)
 * BMP (Windows BMP)
 * CALS raster
 * Cartesian Perceptual Compression (CPC)
 * CgBI
 * Cineon
 * Cisco IP Phone image
 * CMU Andrew Toolkit image (.cmu)
 * CMU Window Manager bitmap
 * ColoRIX (RIX)
 * CompuServe RLE
 * DCX (ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush)
 * DEGAS formats (.pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3)
 * DICOM (.dcm)
 * DirectDraw Surface (.dds)
 * DjVu
 * DNG
 * Doodle (Atari) (.doo)
 * DPX (SMTPE DPX)
 * Dr. Halo (.cut)
 * ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet)
 * EPOC MBM (Symbian Multibitmap)
 * EPOC Sketch
 * Epson Printer Bitmaps
 * FaceSaver
 * FIASCO
 * FITS
 * FlashPix (.fpx)
 * FRA (Fractint)
 * GEM Raster (.img)
 * GeoTIFF
 * GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
 * HP Paintjet
 * ILBM (IFF-ILBM, IFF-PBM, HAM, etc.)
 * IWC (WaveL)
 * JBIG
 * JBIG2
 * JEDMICS C4
 * Jeff's Image Format
 * JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)
 * JNG (JPEG Network Graphics)
 * JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1 Annex I)
 * JPEG (JPEG Interchange Format, .jpg)
 * JPEG 2000
 * JPEG 2000 codestream (.j2k, .j2c)
 * JPEG-HDR
 * JPEG-LS
 * JPEG XR (HD Photo)
 * JPM (JPEG 2000 Part 6: Compound Image Format)
 * JPS
 * JPX (JPEG 2000 Part 2: Extensions, .jpf)
 * KiSS CEL
 * KoalaPainter (C64) (.koa, .gg)
 * Kolor Raw (.kro)
 * LIFF (Openlab Layered Image File Format)
 * LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
 * LuraDocument Format (.ldf)
 * LuraWave (LWF)
 * MacPaint
 * Maya IFF
 * MDA/MDP (MicroDesign Area/Page)
 * MDI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)
 * MGR bitmap
 * MIFF (Magick Image File Format)
 * Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
 * MRF (Monochrome Recursive Format)
 * MrSID
 * MSP (Microsoft Paint file)
 * MTV ray tracer
 * Multi-Picture Format (MPO)
 * NEOchrome (.neo)
 * Netpbm formats (PBM, PGM, PPM, PNM, PAM)
 * NIFF (Navy Image File Format)
 * OpenEXR (.exr)
 * OpenRaster (.ora)
 * OS/2 BMP
 * OTA bitmap (Nokia Over The Air, .otb)
 * Paint.NET image (.pdn)
 * Paint Shop Pro (.psp, .jsl, .pfr, .tub)
 * Palm bitmap
 * Palm Database ImageViewer / FireViewer PDB (.pdb)
 * PCX (PC Paintbrush)
 * PDS (NASA Planetary Data System, .img, .imq)
 * PDS4
 * PFM (Portable FloatMap)
 * PGC (Portfolio Graphics Compressed)
 * PGF (Portfolio Graphics)
 * PGF (Progressive Graphics File)
 * Photo CD
 * PhotoChrome (.pcs)
 * PICtor (.pic; used by PCPaint and other ancient DOS software)
 * PM (XV image)
 * PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
 * PRF (Polychrome Recursive Format)
 * PSD (Adobe Photoshop)
 * Psion PIC
 * PTG (ArtRage)
 * PWP (Seattle Film Works / PhotoWorks)
 * QRT Ray Tracer bitmap image
 * Radiance HDR (RGBE, XYZE, .hdr, .pic)
 * RFF (Dore Raster File Format)
 * RLA (Wavefront)
 * SBIG CCDOPS image
 * Scitex CT
 * SCR (ZX Spectrum)
 * SFW (Seattle Film Works)
 * SGI (IRIS, RGB)
 * Sixel
 * Spectrum 512 formats (.spu, .spc, .sps)
 * SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format)
 * STAD PAC
 * Structured Fax File (.sff)
 * Sun Raster (.ras, .sun)
 * Sun TAAC image
 * SuperView Graphics
 * TealPaint PDB
 * TGA (Truevision Targa image)
 * TI-92 bitmap (.92i)
 * TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
 * TIFF/EP
 * TIFF-FX
 * TIFF/IT
 * TIM (PlayStation graphics)
 * Tiny Stuff
 * TLG (associated with KiriKiri Adventure Game System)
 * Utah RLE
 * VICAR
 * VIFF (Khoros Visualization, .xv)
 * WBMP (Wireless Bitmap)
 * WebP
 * Webshots picture (.wbz, .wb1, .wbd, .wbc, .wbp)
 * WOBA (bitmap data extracted from a HyperCard stack)
 * WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg)
 * WSQ
 * XBM (X BitMap)
 * XCF (GIMP image)
 * Xerox EDMICS-MMR
 * Xerox EDMICS-RLC
 * XPM (X PixMap)
 * XWD (X Window Dump)

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.

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

For modeling formats (such as IGES, NFF, OFF, POV-Ray, PRT, QRT), see 3D and CAD/CAM Models.
 * Acorn Draw
 * Adobe Illustrator (.ai)
 * Aldus Placeable Metafile (.apm)
 * CDR (CorelDRAW!, a variant of the OASIS document format)
 * CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
 * Encapsulated PostScript (.eps, .epsf, .epsi)
 * Fig (Xfig format)
 * GEM VDI Metafile (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
 * PICT (Macintosh graphics)
 * Plot-10 (or Tek Plot-10)
 * Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
 * Shapefile
 * TIFF annotation data
 * VML (Vector Markup Language)
 * Windows Metafile (.wmf, .emf)
 * WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg)

See also Machine Embroidery.

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


 * Apple II graphics formats
 * Atari graphics formats
 * HDF (Hierarchical Data Format)
 * IBM Audio Visual Connection (AVC) Still Video Image
 * IFF (Container format often used for graphics)
 * IMG/HDR (Analyze)
 * Microsoft Office Drawing
 * RIFF (Container format often used for graphics)
 * Windows Media Player Skin Package (.wmz)

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


 * 3DS/ASC Autodesk 3D Studio
 * AMBER ARR
 * AMC
 * ANPA
 * Apple Preferred
 * Autodesk Slide
 * B3D (Maxon)
 * Bio
 * BLD (Mega Paint)
 * BRL-CAD (Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD Package)
 * BSB
 * BSP
 * BUF
 * BUM
 * Byte Array Header File
 * CAM
 * CEL
 * Chyron
 * cicn
 * CLP (Windows clipboard)
 * cri
 * csource
 * CVG
 * CWK
 * DCS (Desktop Color Separation)
 * DeltaVision
 * DESR VFF
 * Direct icns
 * Diskus YUV (=Abekas YUV?)
 * DJ1000
 * DL
 * dm2 (Gatan Digital Micrograph 2)
 * dm3 (Gatan Digital Micrograph 3)
 * Doodle! (C64) (.dd, .jj)
 * DrawIT
 * DVI (Intel DVI, Digital Video Interface, Intel Real-Time Video)
 * ElectronicImage
 * ESM (Enhance Simplex)
 * FaxSTF
 * FEP (IRIS CMYK Front End Processor, .ct ?)
 * Freehand 10
 * GATAN
 * GFX (Instant Artist, Print Artist, WarCraft II Image)
 * GrayPaint
 * GRIB (Gridded Binary)
 * GRP (StarCraft graphics?)
 * Harvard Graphics
 * HGT (NASA SRTM Elevation Data)
 * HMR (GeoTIFF Bitmap file)
 * HTC splashscreen
 * IBL
 * IBM PIC
 * IC Imagic
 * Icd5
 * IM (Chryon Liberty Paint)
 * ImageLab/PrintTechnic
 * IPLab
 * Island Graphics TIFF
 * ISS (unidentified; XnView claims to support it)
 * j6i (Ricoh Digital Camera image file)
 * Keynote PICT
 * Kodak DCS
 * Kodak ICC
 * KONTRON
 * Liberty IM
 * Lotus PIC
 * MacDraw I
 * MAG (MAGIchan Graphics)
 * MET (Presentation Manager Metafile)
 * Meteosat 5
 * MHT
 * MonkeyCard
 * MonkeyLogo
 * MRC (Medical Research Council)
 * NAA/IPTC
 * NASA Raster Metafile
 * NIF (Gamebryo Model File / NetImmerse File)
 * NIST PCT
 * Nokia .pict
 * NV12
 * ODF
 * Oncor
 * P3D (Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center 3D Metafile)
 * Palm image stream
 * PaperPort (MAX)
 * PDES
 * PICS
 * Pixar PIC
 * PM (Print Master)
 * PORST
 * Ppat
 * The Print Shop (Broderbund)
 * QDV (Random Dot Software Graphic)
 * QNT (Quantel raw uncompressed YCbCr?) (=Abekas YUV?)
 * QTIF (QuickTime image file, .qif)
 * QTL (YUV SECAM or PAL image)
 * RDC (Rollei)
 * RIB (RenderMan Interface Bytestream / Pixar / 3D Reality)
 * SAF (Standard Archive Format, AMSC Archive Format)
 * SCR (Word for DOS)
 * Scrap
 * ScreenShot Hack PDB
 * SHS
 * Sinclair QL
 * SMV
 * SNX
 * Softimage
 * StartupScreen (Macintosh SCRN, .scrn?)
 * STV
 * SLK (Microsoft SYLK, Symbolic Link Format)
 * System 7 clip
 * TBC
 * TCL
 * TN
 * TRS-80 image (.hr)
 * UNIX Plot Format
 * VBM
 * VGS-8
 * VPB
 * VPM
 * WBIN (MacWavelets)
 * Winfax FXM
 * X-Face
 * XIMG
 * Z04, Z08, Z16, Z24, Z32 (z3d)

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


 * .D
 * CITRONIC
 * FUJI
 * JBI (JBIG?)
 * MSX, MSX2, MSX+, MSX2+ (There may be obscure formats named MSX, but this looks like a list of computers)
 * NCG
 * Palette
 * TEX (Could be any of a number of TEXture formats.)
 * Tiny Viewer PDB (No unique format associated with this app?)
 * VOXEL

Links and Resources

 * Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
 * World's first computer art (1950s pinup image)
 * Art created with atoms
 * Raytracer program code that fits on a business card
 * XGA: A New Graphics Standard