Graphics

File Format
Name	Graphics
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics
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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
• DVM (DVM Movie/Magic Software DVM)
• FLIC
• GIF (graphical interchange format; also used in single-image form)
• 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.

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

Colors

(Profiles, colorspaces, palettes)

• ICC profile

Combined Raster and Vector Formats

• Aldus Placeable Metafile (.apm)
• 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 (Macintosh graphics)
• 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
• 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)
• ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)
• Apple File and App Icons
• CUR (Microsoft Windows cursors)
• Favicon
• GlowIcons
• ICO (Microsoft Windows icons)
• Icon library (.icl)
• NewIcons
• Nokia Operator Logo (.nol)
• OS/2 BMP
• Sun icon
• Windows thumbnail cache (Thumbs.db)
• Xbox Live Avatar

Metadata Formats

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

Raster Graphics Formats

• AAI (Dune image)
• Abekas YUV (.yuv)
• Ability Office PhotoPaint (.apx)
• Acorn Sprite
• ART (AOL compressed image)
• ART (PFS: First Publisher)
• AVS X image
• BigTIFF
• BioRad (Biorad confocal image) [Netpbm:bioradtopgm]
• BMP (Windows BMP)
• CALS raster
• Cartesian Perceptual Compression (CPC)
• CgBI
• Cineon
• Cisco IP Phone image
• 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)
• Epson Printer Bitmaps [Netpbm:escp2topbm]
• Facesaver [Netpbm:fstopgm]
• FIASCO
• FITS
• FlashPix (.fpx)
• FRA (Fractint)
• GEM Raster (.img)
• GeoTIFF
• GIF (graphical interchange format; also used in animated form)
• HP Paintjet [Netpbm:pjtoppm]
• ILBM (IFF-ILBM, IFF-PBM, HAM, etc.)
• iThmb (iOS thumbnail images)
• IWC (WaveL)
• JEDMICS C4
• JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)
• JNG (JPEG Network Graphics)
• JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1 Annex I)
• JPEG (JPEG Interchange Format, JIF, .jpg)
• JPEG 2000
• JPEG 2000 codestream (JPC, .j2k, .j2c)
• JPEG-HDR
• JPEG-LS
• JPEG XR (HD Photo)
• JPM (JPEG 2000 Part 6: Compound Image Format)
• JPX (JPEG 2000 Part 2: Extensions, .jpf)
• KiSS CEL
• KoalaPainter (C64) (.koa, .gg)
• LIFF (Openlab Layered Image File Format)
• LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
• LuraDocument Format (.ldf)
• LuraWave (LWF)
• MacPaint
• Maya IFF
• MBM (Symbian Multibitmap)
• MDA/MDP (MicroDesign Area/Page)
• MDI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)
• MGR bitmap
• MIFF (Magick Image File Format)
• Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
• MPO (Multi Picture Object File)
• MRF (Monochrome Recursive Format)
• MrSID
• MSP (Microsoft Paint file)
• MTV ray tracer
• 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)
• Palm bitmap
• Palm Database ImageViewer / FireViewer PDB (.pdb)
• PCD (Photo CD) [ImageMagick:PCD]
• PCX (PC Paintbrush)
• PDS (NASA Planetary Data System, .img, .imq)
• PFM (Portable FloatMap)
• PGC (Portfolio Graphics Compressed)
• PGF (Portfolio Graphics)
• PGF (Progressive Graphics File)
• PhotoChrome (.pcs)
• PICtor (.pic; used by PCPaint and other ancient DOS software)
• PIX (Alias)
• PM (XV image)
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
• PRF (Polychrome Recursive Format)
• PTG (ArtRage)
• PWP (Seattle Film Works / PhotoWorks) [ImageMagick:PWP]
• QRT Ray Tracer bitmap image
• Radiance HDR (RGBE, XYZE, .hdr, .pic)
• RFF (Dore Raster File Format)
• RLA (Wavefront)
• SBIG CCDOPS image
• SFW (Seattle Film Works) [ImageMagick:SFW]
• SGI/IRIS
• Spectrum 512 formats (.spu, .spc, .sps)
• SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format)
• Structured Fax File (.sff)
• Sun Raster (.ras, .sun)
• Sun TAAC image
• TealPaint PDB
• TGA (Truevision Targa image)
• 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)
• XBM (X BitMap)
• XCF (GIMP image)
• Xerox EDMICS-MMR
• 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

• Acorn Draw
• CDR (CorelDRAW!, a variant of the OASIS document format)
• GEM VDI Metafile (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
• Plot-10 (or Tek Plot-10)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• Shapefile
• VML (Vector Markup Language)

For modeling formats (such as IGES, NFF, OFF, POV-Ray, PRT, QRT), see 3D and CAD/CAM Models.

Miscellaneous

• Apple II graphics formats
• Atari graphics formats
• IFF (Container format often used for graphics)
• RIFF (Container format often used for graphics)
• Windows Media Player Skin Package (.wmz)

Uncategorized

• .D
• 3DS/ASC Autodesk 3D Studio
• 8BIM
• AI (Adobe Illustrator) [ImageMagick:AI]
• AMBER ARR
• AMC
• Analyze
• ANPA
• Apple Preferred
• Autodesk Slide
• B3D
• Bio
• BLD
• BRL-CAD (Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD Package)
• BSB
• BSP
• BUF
• BUM
• Byte Array Header File
• CAM
• CEL
• CGM
• Chyron
• cicn
• CLP
• cri
• csource
• CVG
• CWK
• DCS (Desktop Color Separation)
• DeltaVision
• DESR VFF
• Direct icns
• Diskus YUV (=Abekas YUV?)
• DJ1000
• DKB (David K. Buck)
• 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)
• Fascimile
• FaxSFT
• FEP (IRIS CMYK Front End Processor, .ct ?)
• FLH (FLIC Animation?)
• Freehand 10
• FUJI
• GATAN
• GFX (Instant Artist, Print Artist, WarCraft II Image)
• Grasp GL
• GrayPaint
• GRIB (Gridded Binary)
• GRP (StarCraft graphics?)
• Harvard Graphics
• HDF (Hierarchical Data Format)
• HGT (NASA SRTM Elevation Data)
• HMR (GeoTIFF Bitmap file)
• HTC splashscreen
• IBL
• IBM Audio Visual Connection (AVC) Still Video Image
• IBM PIC
• IC Magic
• Icd5
• ICN
• IM
• ImageLab/PrintTechnic
• IPLab
• Island Graphics TIFF
• ISS (unidentified; XnView claims to support it)
• j6i (Ricoh Digital Camera image file)
• JBI (JBIG?)
• Keynote PICT
• Kodak DCS
• Kodak ICC
• Liberty IM
• LOGO
• Lotus PIC
• MacDraw I
• MAG (MAGIchan Graphics)
• MET (Presentation Manager Metafile)
• Meteosat 5
• MHT
• Microsoft Office Drawing
• MonkeyCard
• MonkeyLogo
• MRC (Medical Research Council)
• MSX
• MSX2
• MSX+
• MSX2+
• NAA/IPTC
• NAPLPS (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax)
• NASA Raster Metafile
• NCG
• NGG (Nokia Phone Group Graphics/Icons)
• NIF (Gamebryo Model File / NetImmerse File)
• NIST PCT
• Nokia .pict
• NV12
• ODF
• P3D (Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center 3D Metafile)
• Palette
• Palm image stream
• PAC STAD
• PaperPort (MAX)
• PDES
• PIC (multiple B&W Atari, PC Paint, Psion)
• PICS
• Pixar PIC
• PM (Print Master)
• 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 (Sinclair)
• SCR (Word for DOS)
• Scrap
• ScreenShot Hack PDB
• SCX
• SHS
• Sinclair QL
• Sixel
• SKETCH
• SMV
• SNX
• Softimage
• StartupScreen (Macintosh SCRN, .scrn?)
• STV
• SLK (Microsoft SYLK, Symbolic Link Format)
• System 7 clip
• TBC
• TCL
• TEX
• Tiny Viewer PDB
• TN
• TRS-80 image (.hr)
• UNIX Plot Format
• VBM
• VGS-8
• VPB
• VPM
• WBIN
• Winfax FXM
• X-Face
• XIMG
• Z04
• Z08
• Z16
• Z24
• Z32

Links and Resources

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