Graphics

Revision as of 18:22, 7 May 2018

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)
• ANSIMation
• APNG
• AVIF
• 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
• HEIF
• 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)
  • Windows 1.0 Cursor
• 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)
  • Windows 1.0 Icon
• 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

• Exif
• IPTC (or NAA)
• MakerNote
• MIX
• Photoshop Image Resources
• SAUCE
• XMP

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)
• Funpaint
• 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)
• PabloPaint
• 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
• Tom's Editor (Online image converter)

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:

• 3D and CAD/CAM Models
• Diagramming and flowcharting
• Machine Embroidery

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
• Lots of images from Atari