Graphics

Revision as of 22:50, 8 March 2013

Categories

• see also: 3D and CAD/CAM Models, and Cameras and Digital Image Sensors

Animated image formats

See also Video

• ANI (Windows Cursor)
• APNG
• DVM (DVM Movie/Magic Software DVM)
• GIF (graphical interchange format; also used in single-image form)
• MNG

Character-based graphics

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

• ANS (ANSI Art)
• ASCII Art
• PCBOARD (.pcb)
• TUNDRA (.tnd)

Color management

• ICC profile

Combined Raster and Vector Formats

• CMU Andrew Toolkit image (.cmu)
• Encapsulated PostScript (.eps, .epsf, .epsi)
• fig (xfig format, also supports embedded raster images)
• Paint Shop Pro (.psp, .jsl, .pfr, .tub)
• PICT
• PSD Adobe Photoshop (might contain vector layers, but it is mainly a bitmap file format)
• Windows Metafile (.wmf, .emf)
• WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg) [ImageMagick:WPG]

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
• Run-length colour encoding (T.45)
• Wavelet compression

Icon, Cursor, and Avatar files

(used by various operating systems and software to present icons, cursors, avatars, etc.; may have a variety of internal formats)

• Apple File and App Icons
• CUR (Microsoft Windows cursors)
• ICO (Microsoft Windows icons)
• Xbox Live Avatar

Metadata Formats

• Exif
• Exif MakerNote
• IPTC
• Photoshop Image Resources (8BIM)
• XMP

Raster Graphics Formats

• Acorn Sprite
• BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format)
• BigTIFF
• BMP (Windows BMP)
• CgBI
• DICOM (.dcm)
• DjVu
• DNG
• FlashPix
• GEM Raster [Netpbm:gemtopnm]
• GeoTIFF
• GIF (graphical interchange format; also used in animated form)
• OS/2 BMP (different from Windows BMP)
• IFF (ILBM)
• ITHMB (iOS thumbnail images)
• J2K (JPEG2000 code stream)
• JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)
• JNG (JPEG Network Graphics)
• JP2 (JPEG2000 Part 1: Core Coding System)
• JPC (JPEG2000 code stream)
• JPEG (JPEG Interchange Format, JPG/JIF)
• JPEG-HDR
• JPEG-LS
• JPEG XR
• JPF (JPEG2000 Part 2: Extensions)
• JPX (JPEG2000 Part 2: Extensions)
• LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
• MDA/MDP (MicroDesign Area/Page)
• MIFF (Magick Image File Format)
• MrSID
• MSP (Microsoft Paint file)
• NEF (Nikon RAW) [ImageMagick:NEF]
• Paint.NET image (.pdn)
• PBM/PGM/PPM/PNM/PAM (Netpbm formats)
• PCX (PC Paintbrush)
• PICtor file format (.pic; used by PCPaint and other ancient DOS software)
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
• PWP (Seattle Film Works / PhotoWorks) [ImageMagick:PWP]
• RFF (Dore Raster File Format)
• SFW (Seattle Film Works) [ImageMagick:SFW]
• SGI (Irix image)
• SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format, SPF)
• TGA (Truevision Targa image)
• TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
• TIFF/EP
• TIFF/IT
• TIM (Sony PlayStation image file) [ImageMagick:TIM]
• TLG (associated with KiriKiri Adventure Game System)
• Utah RLE
• VICAR Rasterfile [ImageMagick:VICAR]
• WBMP (Wireless Bitmap)
• WebP
• WOBA (bitmap data extracted from a HyperCard stack)
• X3F (Sigma Camera RAW Picture File) [ImageMagick:X3F]
• XBM (X BitMap)
• XCF (GIMP image)
• XPM (X PixMap)
• XWD (X Window System bitmap) [Netpbm:xwdtopnm] [ImageMagick:XWD]

Skin files

[used in various programs to change user-interface backgrounds, etc.]

• Windows Media Player Skin Package (.wmz)

Vector Graphics Formats

• Acorn Draw
• CDR (CorelDRAW!, a variant of the OASIS document format)
• Plot-10 (or Tek Plot-10)
• POV (Persistence of Vision, POV-Ray)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• Shapefile
• VML (Vector Markup Language)

Uncategorized

• .D
• 3DS/ASC Autodesk 3D Studio
• 8BIM
• AAI (Dune image) [ImageMagick:AAI]
• AFP
• AI (Adobe Illustrator) [ImageMagick:AI]
• ALIAS
• AMBER ARR
• AMC
• Analyze
• ANI (NeoChrome)
• ANPA
• Apple Preferred
• ART (PFS: 1st Publisher Clip Art) [ImageMagick:ART]
• ARW (Sony Alpha Raw) [ImageMagick:ARW]
• Atari Portfolio
• Autodesk Slide
• B3D
• Bio
• BioRad (Biorad confocal image) [Netpbm:bioradtopgm]
• BLD
• BRL-CAD (Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD Package)
• BSB
• BSP
• BUF
• BUM
• Byte Array Header File
• c4
• CALS [ImageMagick:CALS]
• CAM
• CEL
• CGM
• Chyron
• cicn
• CINEON [ImageMagick:CIN]
• CISCOIpPhoneImages [ImageMagick:CIP]
• CLP
• cri
• CRW (Canon Digital Camera Raw) [ImageMagick:CRW]
• CR2 (Canon Digital Camera Raw) [ImageMagick:CR2]
• csource
• CT
• CVG
• CWK
• DCS
• DCR (Kodak Digital Camera Raw) [ImageMagick:DCR]
• DCX (ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush) [ImageMagick:DCX]
• DDS (Microsoft DirectDraw Surface) [ImageMagick:DDS]
• DeltaVision
• DESR VFF
• Direct icns
• Diskus YUV
• DJ1000
• DKB (David K. Buck)
• DL
• dm2
• dm3
• Doodle
• DPX [ImageMagick:DPX]
• Dr. Halo [ImageMagick:CUT]
• DrawIT
• DVI (Intel DVI, Digital Video Interface, Intel Real-Time Video)
• ECW
• ElectronicImage
• Epson Printer Bitmaps [Netpbm:escp2topbm]
• ESM
• Facesaver [Netpbm:fstopgm]
• Favicon ICO
• Fascimile
• FaxSFT
• fep
• First Publisher art
• FireViewer PDB
• FLH
• Freehand 10
• FUJI
• GATAN
• GEM Bit Image
• GEM VDI (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
• GFX
• Grasp GL
• GrayPaint
• GRIB (Gridded Binary)
• GRP
• HAM
• Harvard Graphics
• HD Photo
• HDF (Hierarchical Data Format)
• HDR (Radiance RGBE image format) [ImageMagick:HDR]
• HGT
• HMR
• HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language)
• HPGL/2
• HP Paintjet [Netpbm:pjtoppm]
• HTC splashscreen
• IBL
• IBM PIC
• IC Magic
• Icd5
• ICN
• IGES
• IM
• ImageLab/PrintTechnic
• IMG
• IMQ
• IPLab
• IRIS
• Island Graphics TIFF
• ISS
• ithmb
• j6i
• JBI
• JEDMICS C4
• KDC (Kodak Digital Camera Raw) [ImageMagick:KDC]
• Keynote PICT
• KISS CEL
• Koala
• Kodak DCS
• Kodak ICC
• LDF
• Liberty IM
• LIFF
• LOGO
• Lotus PIC
• LuraDocument
• LWF
• MacDraw I
• MacPaint [Netpbm:macptopbm] [ImageMagick:MAC]
• MAG (MAGIchan Graphics)
• MAYA-IFF
• MBM (Symbian Multibitmap)
• MET (Presentation Manager Metafile)
• Meteosat 5
• MHT
• Microsoft Office Drawing
• MonkeyCard
• MonkeyLogo
• MPO (Multi Picture Object File)
• MRC (Mixed Raster Content)
• MRW (Konica Minolta / Sony raw) [ImageMagick:MRW]
• MSX
• MSX2
• MSX+
• MSX2+
• MTV (MTV ray tracer) [Netpbm:mtvtoppm] [ImageMagick:MTV]
• NAA/IPTC
• NAPLPS (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax)
• NASA Raster Metafile
• NCG
• NEO (NeoChrome) [Netpbm:neotoppm]
• NFF (Haines NFF, Neutral File Format)
• NGG (Nokia Phone Group Graphics/Icons)
• NIF (Gamebryo Model File / NetImmerse File)
• NIST PCT
• Nokia .pict
• NOL (Nokia Operator Logo)
• NV12
• ODF
• OFF
• ORF (Olympus RAW) [ImageMagick:ORF]
• OTA (Nokia Over The Air)
• P3D (Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center 3D Metafile)
• PI1 Degas [Netpbm:pi1toppm]
• PC1 Degas [Netpbm:pc1toppm]
• PI2 Degas
• PC2 Degas
• PI3 Degas [Netpbm:pi3topbm]
• PC4 Degas
• Palette
• Palm image stream
• PAC STAD
• PaperPort (MAX)
• PC Paint
• PCD (Photo CD) [ImageMagick:PCD]
• PCL (Printer Control Language) [ImageMagick:PCL]
• PDB (Palm Database ImageViewer Format) [ImageMagick:PDB]
• PDES
• PDS
• PDS3
• PEF (Pentax Raw Image file) [ImageMagick:PEF]
• PFM (Portable FloatMap) [Netpbm:pfmtopam] [ImageMagick:PFM]
• PGC (Portfolio Graphics Compressed File)
• PGF (Progressive Graphics File)
• PIC (multiple B&W Atari, PC Paint, Psion)
• PICS
• PICT (Macintosh graphics file) [Netpbm:picttoppm] [ImageMagick:PICT]
• PIX (Alias/Wavefront RLE) [ImageMagick:PIX]
• Pixar PIC
• PM (Presentation Manager? PageMaker? PrintMaster? X Window PixelMap?)
• Ppat
• The Print Shop (Broderbund)
• PRT (Parallel Ray Trace)
• PTG (ArtRage)
• QDV
• QNT
• QRT (Quick Ray Trace) [Netpbm:qrttoppm]
• QTIF
• QTL
• RAF (Fuji CCD-RAW Graphic File) [ImageMagick:RAF]
• Radiance
• Rayshade
• RDC
• RIB
• RIFF
• RIX (RIX Image File, ColoRIX VGA Paint)
• RLA (Alias/Wavefront) [Netpbm:rlatopam] [ImageMagick:RLA]
• RW2 (Panasonic Lumix Raw Image) [ImageMagick:RW2]
• SAF (Standard Archive Format, AMSC Archive Format)
• SCR (Sinclair)
• SCR (Word for DOS)
• Scrap
• ScreenShot Hack PDB
• SCX
• Sense8 NFF (WorkdToolkit Neutral File Format)
• SFF
• SGI YAODL (Yet Another Object Description Language, Power-Flip Format)
• SHS
• Sinclair QL
• Sixel
• SKETCH
• SMV
• SNX
• Softimage
• SPC (compressed Spectrum file) [Netpbm:spctoppm]
• SPU (uncompressed Spectrum file) [Netpbm:sputoppm]
• SRF (Sony Raw Format) [ImageMagick:SRF]
• ST X SBIG (Santa Barbara Instrument Group CCD?) [Netpbm:sbigtopgm]
• StartupScreen s
• STV
• Sun Rasterfiles [Netpbm:rasttopnm] [ImageMagick:RAS,SUN]
• SWF
• SLK (Microsoft SYLK, Symbolic Link Format)
• System 7 clip
• TBC
• TCL
• TealPaint PDB
• TEX
• Tiny Viewer PDB
• TN
• TSR-80
• UNIX Plot Format
• VBM
• VFF
• VGS-8
• VPB
• VPM
• WBIN
• wbz
• Winfax FXM
• X Window Dump
• X-Face
• XIMG
• YUV (Abekas YUV) [Netpbm:yuvtoppm]
• Z04
• Z08
• Z16
• Z24
• Z32

Links and Resources

• Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
• World's first computer art (1950s pinup image)