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Revision as of 18:13, 25 March 2022
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
Animated image formats
See also Video.
- ANI (NEOchrome)
- ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)
- ANIM
- Animatic Film (.flm)
- AnimBrush
- ANSIMation
- APNG
- BAM (Infinity Engine)
- BMF (Ghost Recon) An animation data format associated with Ghost Recon [1]
- CFAST Disney Animation Studio (.cft)
- Corel R.A.V.E. (.CLK)
- CorelMOVE (.CMV)
- Cyber Paint Sequence (.seq)
- DeluxePaint Animation (ANM or Anim)
- DL
- DVM (DVM Movie/Magic Software DVM)
- EVA
- Fantavision
- FLIC (FLI, FLC)
- GIF
- GIFV
- GFY
- GRASP GL
- IFF-DEEP
- Imagic Film/Picture (Atari ST frames used in animation)
- Just Buttons BTN
- Microsoft Agent character
- MNG
- Naïve Image Formats (NII, NIA)
- OIL (OpenIL)
- PGX (Portfolio)
- PICS
- Spectrum 512 Anispec
- SWF (Flash)
- Synfig
- Ugoira
- VAXL
- VGAPaint 386 Animation (.van)
- Video Master Film (Atari)
- XNG
- YAFA
Other image formats supporting animation, but not usually thought of as animation formats, include AVIF, HEIF, JPEG XL, JPX, and WebP.
Character-based graphics
See Character encoding for details of character sets, some of which include graphical or line-and-box-drawing characters.
- 2500x
- ANSI Art (.ans)
- ANSI escape code
- AN2
- ArtWorx Data Format (.adf)
- ASCII Art
- Ascii-Art Editor
- AVATAR (FidoNet)
- BIN (Binary Text)
- BSAVE Image
- CebraText
- ComAnsi (.anc)
- Dir Logo Maker
- iCEDraw (.idf)
- MZM (.mzm)
- Nitrogen Fingers Paint (NFP)
- Nitrogen Fingers Text (NFT)
- PCBoard (.pcb)
- PIX (PIcture in teXt) (sets up custom characters to show raster image in text mode)
- RIPscrip (or RIPscript)
- Semi-Graphic logos Editor
- sMAUG ANSI Executable
- TheDraw COM File
- 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
Graphics compression algorithms, special-purpose compressed graphics formats, etc.
See also Compression, for general-purpose algorithms.
- Brunsli
- CCITT Group 3
- CCITT Group 4
- DCT compression (e.g. lossy JPEG)
- Genus Graphics Library
- GIFBLAST (.gfb)
- Gifpress (.gps)
- ImageZero
- JBIG
- JBIG2
- JPEG
- JPEG 2000 codestream
- JPEG-LS
- Lepton
- LOCO-I (Low Complexity Lossless Compression for Images)
- MAG (GIF archiver)
- Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
- Modified Huffman
- Modified Modified READ
- Modified READ
- NeXT 2-bit RLE
- PackBits
- packJPG (.pjg)
- packPNM (.ppn)
- PKP
- Rawzor
- RK Image (.rki)
- Run-length colour encoding (T.45)
- Run-length encoding
- StuffIt Image Format (SIF)
- ThunderScan compression
- UHIC
- 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)
- CursorFX
- CursorXP
- DEGAS Elite icon (.icn)
- EPOC AIF
- Favicon
- Foto-Mosaic-Edda Database
- GEM resource file (.rsc)
- GlowIcons
- Graphic Workshop Thumbnail (.thn)
- Haiku Vector Icon Format
- HP 100LX/200LX icon (.icn)
- ICDRAW icon
- ICNS (Apple/Macintosh Icon)
- ICO (Microsoft Windows icons)
- Icon Heaven library (.fim)
- Icon library (.icl)
- IconPackager (.zip, .iptheme, .ip, .iconpackager)
- IconVG (.ivg)
- Imageiio/imaginfo (Ulead) (.pe3, .pe4)
- Image Librarian (.ril)
- iThmb (iOS thumbnail images)
- Lotus Smart Icon (.smi)
- Magic Desk icon (.icn)
- Micrografx Icon (.icn)
- MonkeyLogo
- MTN (Monu-CAD thumbnail) (.mtn)
- 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
- SRF (Garmin vehicle)
- 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
- AFCP
- Exif
- IPTC-IIM (or NAA)
- IPTC Photo Metadata
- MakerNote
- MIX
- net.CyberCards
- Photoshop Image Resources
- SAUCE
- XMP
Online/Networked Formats
(while any image format can be used online and through a network, these are specifically designed to be accessed remotely via an API)
Programming languages
(Graphic-specific programming languages)
- Anim8or Scripting Language
- Blitz3D
- CEEMAC
- High Level Shading Language (HLSL) (uses byte array header files)
- OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
- PostScript
- Processing
- RenderWare object (.rwx)
- SCODL
Raster Graphics Formats
- AAI (Dune image)
- ABC (LEADTOOLS) (Advanced Bitonal Compression)
- Abekas YUV (.yuv) (Diskus and Quantel QNV varieties of YUV files are apparently similar)
- Ability Office PhotoPaint (.apx)
- ACDSee Image (.apd, .acdc)
- Acorn Sprite
- ADEX IMG
- ADRG
- Advanced Art Studio
- Affinity Photo (.afphoto)
- AFLI-Editor
- AIPD
- Alias PIX
- Alpha Microsystems BMP
- Amber ARR Bitmap Image
- Amica Paint
- AMOS Picture Bank
- AMOS Sprite Bank
- Analyze AVW
- Animator PIC/CEL
- Animator Pro PIC
- Anime 4ever slideshow
- ANSI 379
- ANSI 381
- AP*
- Apac3 APP
- Aperio SVS
- Apple volume label image
- Applixware Bitmap
- APT
- ARF (Axon Raw Format)
- ART (AOL compressed image)
- ART (PFS: First Publisher)
- Art Director
- ArtMaster88
- Async Professional Fax (.apf)
- AtariCAD (.drg)
- AtariGraphics
- Atari Interlaced Studio
- AtariTools-800
- ATR (ZX Spectrum)
- Augmented PFM
- AVIF
- AVS X image
- Award BIOS logo
- AWD (Artweaver)
- AWD (At Work Document)
- BBC Micro mode image
- BCIF
- BEF
- BFLI
- BGI image
- Blazing Paddles (.pi, .wnd)
- BIF (byLight)
- BIF (Image Alchemy)
- BigTIFF
- BioRad confocal image
- BLP
- BMF (Dmitry Shkarin)
- BMI (Zoner)
- BMP (Windows BMP and OS/2 BMP)
- Bob ray tracer bitmap
- Border Screen
- BPG
- BRender PIX
- BSAVE Image
- BSB (BSB/KAP)
- BSP (ZX Spectrum)
- BTPC
- Bugbiter APAC239i
- CADRG
- Calamus Raster Graphic (.crg)
- CALS raster
- Casio CAM (.cam)
- Canvas (Atari) (.cpt, .cnv)
- Cartesian Perceptual Compression (CPC)
- CD5 (Chasys Draw)
- CD-I IFF IMAG
- CDU-Paint
- Centauri Logo Editor
- CgBI
- CH$
- Champions' Interlace
- Cheese (.che)
- Cineon
- Cisco IP Phone image
- Clear
- Cloé picture
- CMP
- CMU Andrew Toolkit image (.cmu)
- CMU Window Manager bitmap
- COKE (Atari Falcon)
- ColoRIX (RIX)
- ColorViewSquash (.rgb)
- C.O.L.R. Object Editor
- CompuServe RLE
- ComputerEyes
- Corel Photo House (.cps)
- Corel Photo-Paint image (.cpt)
- Corel Wavelet (.wi)
- CPA (PRISM)
- Crack Art (.ca1, .ca2, .ca3)
- CUPS Raster
- CUT (Amstrad)
- Cyber Paint Cell
- Dali
- DaVinci
- DCS (Desktop Color Separation)
- DCT (Crash Barrier)
- DCX (ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush)
- DEGAS Elite brush
- DEGAS image (.pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3)
- DelmPaint
- DeskMate Paint (.pnt)
- DeskPic
- DESR VFF
- DGI (Digi-Pic)
- D-GRAPH
- DICOM (.dcm)
- Diddle sketch
- DiddleBug sketch
- Digi Paint
- DIN
- DirectDraw Surface (.dds)
- DjVu
- DM2
- DM3
- DM4
- DNG
- Doodle (Atari) (.doo)
- Doodle! (C64) (.dd, .jj)
- Doré Raster
- DPX (SMTPE DPX)
- Draw256 (.vga)
- DrawIt (Atari)
- Drazlace
- Drazpaint (.drz, .drp)
- Dr. Halo (.cut)
- DUO
- DuneGraph
- DVI (Intel DVI, Digital Video Interface, Intel Real-Time Video)
- ECI Graphic Editor
- ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet)
- EggPaint (.trp)
- Elecard Wavelet Image (.wlt)
- Enhanced Simplex (.esm)
- Envision
- EPOC MBM (Symbian Multibitmap)
- EPOC Sketch
- EPSILON
- Epson Printer Bitmaps
- ERDAS Imagine IMG
- ERDAS LAN/GIS
- ER Mapper Raster (.ers)
- Extended DEGAS image
- EZ-Art Professional
- Face Painter (.fpt, .fcp)
- FaceSaver
- Falcon True Color (.ftc)
- farbfeld
- FAXX (IFF-FAXX)
- FBM image (Fuzzy Bitmap)
- FFLI
- FIASCO
- FIF (Fractal Image Format)
- FL32 (FilmLight)
- FlashPix (.fpx)
- Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
- Flexible Line Interpretation (FLI)
- FLIF
- FLI Graph
- FLIP
- FLI Profi
- Floor Designer
- FMAC2COM
- FONTASY graphics
- FRA (Fractint)
- Freedom of Press
- FSH (EA Sports)
- FUIF
- Fullscreen Construction Kit
- Funpaint
- Fun with Art
- G9B
- GED
- GEM Raster (.img)
- Gephard Hires Graphics
- geoPaint
- GeoTIFF
- GFA Artist (.art)
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
- GIFEXE
- Giga Cad
- Gigascreen
- GIMP Animated Brush (.gih)
- GIMP Brush (.gbr)
- GIMP Pattern (.pat)
- GLE
- GoDot (.4bt)
- GodPaint (.god)
- GR*
- GRABBER
- Graph2Font
- Graphics Processor
- Graphic Workshop self-displaying picture
- Graph Saurus
- Grass' Slideshow
- GrayPaint
- GRF (Amstrad)
- GRFX
- GRIB (Gridded Binary)
- GROB
- Gunpaint
- GX1
- GX2
- Hard Interlace Picture
- HCI
- HEIF
- Hemera Photo-Object
- Hi-Eddi (.hed)
- Hi-Pic Creator (.hpc)
- hipix
- HIPS
- Hires-Bitmap
- Hires FLI Designer
- Hires Interlace
- Hires Manager
- HiRes Player Missile
- HLR
- HMR (Bentley Systems bitmap file, connected in some way to GeoTIFF)
- HP Paintjet
- HP Photo Album
- HR (TRS-80) (.hr)
- HRU
- HS2
- HSI JPEG
- HSI Raw
- HTC splashscreen (also known as NB format)
- IBM Audio Visual Connection (AVC) Still Video Image
- IBM KIPS bitmap
- ICE (Atari)
- ICR (NCSA Telnet)
- IFF-DEEP
- ILBM (IFF, LBM, HAM, ACBM, etc.)
- Image Cytometry Standard (.ics)
- Image Exchange Format
- Image System
- Imagic Film/Picture (Atari ST)
- IMG/HDR (Analyze 7.5)
- IMG Scan
- Img Software Set
- ImgStar
- IndyPaint (.tru)
- ING 15
- Inset PIX
- InShape IIM
- INT95a
- Intergraph Raster
- Interlace Graphics Editor
- Interlace Hires Editor
- Interlace Logo Designer
- Interleaf image
- InterPainter
- IPI
- IPLab (Image Processing Lab)
- IRIS CMYK Front End Processor CT
- Island Graphics TIFF
- IWC (WaveL)
- J Wavelet Image Codec (.wic)
- J6I (Ricoh Digital Camera image file)
- JAM (compressed image)
- JBIG
- JBIG2
- JEDMICS C4
- Jeff's Image Format
- Jet Graphics Planner
- 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 360
- JPEG 2000
- JPEG 2000 codestream (.j2k, .j2c, .jpc)
- JPEG-HDR
- JPEG-LS
- JPEG Pleno
- JPEG XL
- JPEG XR (HD Photo)
- JPEG XS
- JPEG XT
- JPM (JPEG 2000 Part 6: Compound Image Format)
- JPS
- JPX (JPEG 2000 Part 2: Extensions, .jpf)
- KFX (Atari graphics format)
- KIFF
- KiSS CEL
- Koala MicroIllustrator
- KoalaPainter (.koa, .gg)
- Kolor Raw (.kro)
- Kompresor do Animatora
- KQP
- Krita (.kra)
- KSS-Paint
- KTX
- KYG
- Larka Edytor Obiekt
- LazPaint (.lzp)
- LdPic
- LERC
- LIFF (Openlab Layered Image File Format)
- Lightning Strike (.cod)
- Little Draw (.ldw)
- Logo-Painter
- Lossless JPEG (original)
- Lotus Manuscript graphics (.bit)
- LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
- LSS16
- Lucasfilm picture (.lff)
- Ludek Maker
- Lumena CEL
- Lumena PIX/BPX
- LuraDocument Format (.ldf)
- LuraWave (LWF)
- MacPaint
- Mad Designer
- Mad Studio
- MagicDraw
- Magic Painter
- Magick Persistent Cache (MPC)
- MAKIchan Graphics (.mag)
- Mamut
- Mapletown Network
- Marco Pixel Editor
- Maya IFF
- McPainter
- MCS
- MDA/MDP (MicroDesign Area/Page)
- MDI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)
- MDP (FireAlpaca and Medibang Paint)
- MegaPaint BLD
- MetaMorph Stack (.stk)
- MGR bitmap
- MIAF
- Micro Illustrator
- Microsoft Image Composer (.mic)
- MIF (MAXpaint)
- MIF (MSX)
- MIFF (Magick Image File Format)
- MIG
- MIX (Picture It!)
- Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
- MLDF
- Mono Magic
- Movie Maker
- MPH (MonkeyPhoto)
- MRF (Monochrome Recursive Format)
- MrSID
- MSP (Microsoft Paint)
- MSX BASIC graphics
- MTV ray tracer bitmap
- MultiArtist
- Multicolor (Commodore 64 graphic mode)
- Multicolor (ZX Spectrum)
- Multi-Lace Editor
- Multi Palette Picture (MPP)
- Multi-Picture Format (MPO)
- Naïve Image Formats (NIE)
- NASA Raster Metafile
- National Imagery Transmission Format (NITFS, NITF, .ntf)
- NEOchrome (.neo)
- NEOchrome Master
- 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)
- NXI
- OpenEXR (.exr)
- OpenRaster (.ora)
- Oric HIRES screen
- OS/2 Bitmap Array
- OS/2 bitmap family
- OS/2 Boot Logo
- OTA bitmap (Nokia Over The Air, .otb)
- P4I
- PabloPaint
- PABX background
- Paint Magic
- Paint.NET image (.pdn)
- Painter RIFF (.rif)
- PaintPro
- PaintShop (Atari ST)
- PaintShop Pro (.psp, .jsl, .pfr, .tub)
- PaintTool SAI
- Paintworks
- Palette Master
- Palm bitmap
- Palm Database ImageViewer / FireViewer PDB (.pdb)
- Paradox (graphics)
- PAX (Pick Ax)
- PCIF (.pcf)
- PCO B16
- PCPaint CLP
- PCPaint PIC (a.k.a. Pictor)
- PCR image
- PCX (PC Paintbrush)
- PDS (NASA Planetary Data System, .img, .imq)
- PDS4
- Perfect Pix
- 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
- Picasso 64 (.p64)
- PIC Editor (Andrei Romanov)
- PictureGear Pocket
- Picture Packer
- Picture Publisher
- PIK
- PIX (PIcture in teXt)
- Pixar picture (.pxr)
- PixArt
- PixelPaint (SuperMac)
- Pixel Perfect
- Pixel Studio (FileStream) (.ibw)
- Pixia (.pxa)
- Pixlr document (*.pxd)
- PKI (ImgFun)
- PKM
- PL4
- PLD (PhotoLine)
- PM (XV image)
- PMG Designer
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- Pocket PC Bitmap (.2bp)
- Portable Arbitrary Map (PAM)
- Portable Bitmap Format (PBF)
- Poser Bump Map (.bum)
- PowerGraphics
- PRF (Fastgraph)
- PRF (Polychrome Recursive Format)
- Printfox bitmap
- PrintMaster
- PrintPartner (.gph)
- Print Shop, The
- Print-Technik
- Prism Paint (.pnt)
- PSB (Adobe Photoshop, large format)
- PSD (Adobe Photoshop)
- PSF (PhotoStudio)
- Psion PIC
- PTG (ArtRage)
- Public Painter
- Puzzle image (X11)
- PWC (Piecewise-Constant Image Model)
- PWG Raster
- PXM (Pixelmator)
- Q0
- QDV (Giffer)
- QRT Ray Tracer bitmap
- QTIF (QuickTime image file, .qif)
- QTL (YUV SECAM or PAL image)
- Quake 2 Texture (.wal)
- Quantel VPB image
- QuantumPaint (.pbx)
- Quite OK Image Format (.qoi)
- Radiance HDR (RGBE, XYZE, .hdr, .pic)
- RAG-D
- Rainbow Painter
- RAMbrandt
- Raster Master RAW
- Raw bitmap
- RDIB
- Rembrandt
- RGB Intermediate Format
- RLA (Wavefront)
- RLI (RealWorld)
- Rocky Interlace Picture
- RUN Paint
- SAMAR Hires Interlace
- SAM Coupé Mode 4
- Saracen Paint (.sar)
- SBIG CCDOPS image
- Scitex CT
- SCR (ZX Spectrum)
- ScreenShot Hack
- Seattle FilmWorks (.sfw, .pwp)
- Secret Photos puzzle (.xp0)
- Segmented Hypergraphics (.shg, .mrb)
- Separations output format
- Serif PhotoPlus (.spp)
- SGI (IRIS, RGB)
- SGX (SView Graphics, SuperView Graphics)
- Signum! Compressed Image (IMC)
- Sinbad Slideshow
- Sinclair QL screen
- Sixel
- Sketch-PadDles
- SlideShow for VBXE
- Slow-scan television (.hrz)
- Softimage PIC
- Sony PictureGear Studio
- 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)
- Standard Graphics 3 (Atari)
- Starbase bitmap file
- STL (ZX Spectrum)
- Stop Press Canvas
- Storyboard PIC/CAP
- STOS memory bank (.mbk)
- Structured Fax File (.sff)
- Sun Raster (.ras, .sun)
- Sun TAAC image
- Super IRG
- SXG (ZX Spectrum)
- SymbOS graphic (.sgx)
- Synthetic Arts
- Synu (Synthetic Universe)
- TAP (Tencent)
- Taquart Interlace Picture
- TealPaint
- Technicolor Dream
- TelePaint/Splash graphics (.ss)
- Texture Maker0
- TG4 (Image Machines)
- TGA (Truevision Targa image)
- TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
- TIFF/EP
- TIFF-FX
- TIFF/IT
- TilePic
- TIM (PlayStation graphics)
- TIM2
- Tiny Stuff
- TI picture file
- TkImg RAW
- TLG (associated with KiriKiri Adventure Game System)
- Tobias Richter Fullscreen Slideshow (.pci)
- Tricolor RGB
- True Paint I
- Trzmiel
- TXS
- Unirast (Apple AirPrint)
- UPX/TPX (Photo Express)
- Utah RLE
- Valve Texture Format (.vtf)
- VBM (VDC BitMap)
- VEGX
- VertiZontal Interlacing
- Verity Image (.vif)
- V.Flash PTX
- VGAPaint 386 COM Program
- VGAPaint 386 PCX Self-Extracting Picture
- VICAR
- Vidcom 64 (.vid)
- VIFF (Khoros Visualization, .xv)
- VIPS (.v)
- Vidig Paint
- Vista data file
- VITec
- Vivid IMG
- VORT file
- WBMP (Wireless Bitmap)
- WebP
- WebP 2
- Webshots picture (.wbz, .wb1, .wbd, .wbc, .wbp)
- WhyPic (.ypc)
- Wigmore Artist 64
- Windows clipboard (.clp)
- Windows DDB
- WinMiPS
- Winzle Puzzle
- WLM (also known as CompW)
- 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)
- XL-Paint
- XPM (X PixMap)
- XWD (X Window Dump)
- XYZ (RPG Maker)
- xRes (.lrg)
- YBM (Bennet Yee's face format)
- Young Picasso (.yp)
- Zeiss BIVAS
- Zoomify PFF
- Zoomify ZIF
- ZZ ROUGH
Skins / Themes
(Used to give custom styles, appearances, and themes to software; might be bundled with Icon, Cursor, and Avatar files consistent with the theme)
- BootSkin Vista
- BootSkin XP
- Pocket PC Theme (.tsk)
- Microsoft Comic Chat
- Stardock Tiles Skin
- Winamp Skin
- Windows Media Player Skin Package (.wmz)
- Winstep Xtreme theme
Software
(Applications, utilities, libraries, and APIs for graphic manipulation)
Refer to Graphics software.
Vector Graphics Formats
(Including most "metafile" formats. Vector formats often support embedded raster images, and other objects that aren't actually vectors.)
- 2DL (ARCHICAD 2D Lines)
- Acorn Draw
- Adobe Illustrator Artwork (.ai)
- Affinity Designer (.afdesign)
- Amiga Metafile (.amf)
- AniST (.scr, .str)
- Applixware Graphics
- Arts & Letters clip art library (.yal)
- Arts & Letters graphics file (.ged)
- ArtWorks
- AutoCAD Slide
- AutoCAD Slide Library
- AutoSketch (.skd)
- Calamus Vector Graphic (.cvg)
- CCX (Corel)
- CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
- CMX (Corel Presentation Exchange)
- CorelChart (.cch)
- Corel Designer (.des)
- CorelDRAW (.cdr, .cdx, .cdt)
- Corel Gallery (.bmf)
- CorelMOSAIC library (.clb, .clh)
- DataDiagrammingML (Microsoft XML-based format)
- DeskMate Draw (.fig)
- Dia
- DrawingML (Microsoft embedded graphics in XML Office formats)
- DrawIt
- DrawPlus
- DrawStudio (Amiga)
- DRAWX Vector Graphics (.vec)
- Embedded Vector Editor (.eve)
- Encapsulated PostScript (.eps, .epsf, .epsi)
- Enhanced Metafile (.emf)
- ER Mapper Vector (.erv)
- Fig (Xfig format)
- FreeHand (Aldus/Adobe)
- FXG
- GEM VDI Metafile (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
- Gerber format (used in printed circuit design)
- Graphics Magician Picture Painter, The
- GST ART (.art)
- Haiku Vector Icon Format
- Harvard Graphics
- IconVG
- In-A-Vision (.pic)
- KwikDraw (.kwk)
- Lotus 1-2-3 Chart (.pic)
- MacDraw (later ClarisDraw)
- Mayura Draw (.md, .pdx)
- Micrografx Draw
- Microsoft Office Drawing
- MIX (PhotoDraw)
- MVG
- NAPLPS (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax)
- NeoDraw
- Notability
- OpenDocument Drawing (.odg)
- PDL (Trionum)
- Picroma Plasma
- PICT (Macintosh graphics)
- Pixie (.pxi)
- PLOT-10 (Tektronix)
- Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML)
- Presentation Manager Metafile (MET)
- Print Artist (.gfx) (also known as Instant Artist)
- Professional Draw
- ProShape
- PWDraw
- Satori Canvas (.cvs) - See Spaceward Graphics
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- SDA (StarOffice)
- SDW (AmiDraw)
- Shapefile
- Simple Vector Format (SVF)
- sK1
- Skencil SK
- Sketch
- SXD
- Sxz (hybrid vector/raster)
- TIFF annotation data
- TinyVG
- Top Draw (.tdr)
- UNIX Plot Format
- Visio (.vsd, .vss, .vst)
- VML (Vector Markup Language)
- Windows Metafile (.wmf)
- WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg)
- Xar (Flare)
- XVT-Draw
- ZBR (Zoner Zebra)
- ZMF (Zoner)
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)
- ABBYY Finereader
- Anaglyph 3D format
- Aperture library
- Apple Preferred (APF)
- BodyPaint 3D (Maxon: .b3d)
- Chyron
- DeltaVision (medical microscopy format)
- Fineprint (.fp)
- Garc archive
- HDF (Hierarchical Data Format)
- ImageLab/PrintTechnic
- Kai's Power Tools
- KONTRON (embedded-systems company; apparently has graphic format of its own)
- Liberty IM
- Lightroom catalog (.lrcat)
- Manga Studio
- MonkeyCard
- NeatReceipts (.nrx, .nrf, .nrt)
- Nintendo Wii TPL
- OmniPage
- PaperPort (MAX)
- Piskel canvas
- QDV (Random Dot Software)
- RMC
- Second Nature Screensaver Graphic (.snx)
- Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit
- StarOffice Gallery
- StartupScreen (Macintosh SCRN, .scrn?)
Links and Resources
- Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
- 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
- Lots of images from Atari
