DirectDraw Surface

DirectDraw Surface (DDS) is an image file format developed by Microsoft. It is associated with DirectX and related APIs. Some video game graphics use this format. Images may be uncompressed, or use one of several compression algorithms.

Identification
DDS files begin with ASCII characters " " (hex ).

Specifications

 * Microsoft's Reference for DDS

Software

 * ImageMagick (read-only)
 * DDS Plugin for GIMP
 * NVIDIA DDS Utilities

Links

 * Wikipedia article
 * Microsoft's DDS page