Graphics
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
Electronic Formats concerned with Image Data.
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
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)
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
Raster Graphics Formats
- Acorn Sprite
- BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format)
- BigTIFF
- BMP (Windows BMP)
- DjVu
- DNG
- FlashPix
- GEM Raster
- 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)
- 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)
- RFF (Dore Raster File Format)
- SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format, SPF)
- TGA (Truevision Targa image)
- TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
- TLG (associated with KiriKiri Adventure Game System)
- WebP
- WOBA (bitmap data extracted from a HyperCard stack)
- XBM (X BitMap)
- XPM (X PixMap)
- XWD (X Window System bitmap)
Skin files
[used in various programs to change user-interface backgrounds, etc.]
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
- AFP
- AI Adobe Illustrator (same as AAI?)
- ALIAS
- AMBER ARR
- AMC
- Analyze
- ANI (NeoChrome)
- ANPA
- Apple Preferred
- ART
- ARW
- Atari Portfolio
- Autodesk Slide
- B3D
- Bio
- BioRad
- BLD
- BRL-CAD (Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD Package)
- BSB
- BSP
- BUF
- BUM
- Byte Array Header File
- c4
- CALS
- CAM
- CEL
- CGM
- Chyron
- cicn
- CINEON
- CISCOIpPhoneImages
- CLP
- cri
- CRW
- CR2
- csource
- CT
- CVG
- CWK
- DCS
- DCR
- DCX
- DDS
- DeltaVision
- DESR VFF
- DICoM
- Direct icns
- Diskus YUV
- DJ1000
- DKB (David K. Buck)
- DL
- dm2
- dm3
- Doodle
- DPX
- Dr. Halo
- DrawIT
- DVI (Intel DVI, Digital Video Interface, Intel Real-Time Video)
- ECW
- ElectronicImage
- Epson Printer Bitmaps
- ESM
- Facesaver
- 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
- HGT
- HMR
- HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language)
- HPGL/2
- HP Paintjet
- 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
- Keynote PICT
- KISS CEL
- Koala
- Kodak DCS
- Kodak ICC
- KoNTRoN
- LDF
- Liberty IM
- LIFF
- LOGO
- Lotus PIC
- LuraDocument
- LWF
- MacDraw I
- MacPaint
- MAG
- MAYA-IFF
- MBM
- MET (Presentation Manager Metafile)
- Meteosat 5
- MHT
- Microsoft Office Drawing
- MonkeyCard
- MonkeyLogo
- MPO
- MRC
- MRW
- MSX
- MSX2
- MSX+
- MSX2+
- MTV
- NAA/IPTC
- NAPLPS (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax)
- NASA Raster Metafile
- NCG
- NEO (NeoChrome)
- 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
- oNCoR
- ORF (Olympus RAW)
- OTA (Nokia Over The Air)
- P3D (Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center 3D Metafile)
- PI1 Degas
- PC1 Degas
- PI2 Degas
- PC2 Degas
- PI3 Degas
- PC4 Degas
- Palette
- Palm image stream
- PAC STAD
- PaperPort (MAX)
- PC Paint
- PCD (Photo CD)
- PCL
- PDB (PhotoDeluxe?)
- PDES
- PDS
- PDS3
- PEF (Pentax Raw Image file)
- PFM (Portable FloatMap)
- PGC (Portfolio Graphics Compressed File)
- PGF (Progressive Graphics File)
- PIC (multiple B&W Atari, PC Paint, Psion)
- PICS
- PICT (Macintosh graphics file format)
- PIX
- Pixar PIC
- PM (Presentation Manager? PageMaker? PrintMaster? X Window PixelMap?)
- PoRST
- Ppat
- The Print Shop (Broderbund)
- PRT (Parallel Ray Trace)
- PTG (ArtRage)
- PWP (PhotoWorks Image File)
- QDV
- QNT
- QRT (Quick Ray Trace)
- QTIF
- QTL
- RAF
- Radiance
- Rayshade
- RDC
- RIB
- RIFF
- RIX (RIX Image File, ColoRIX VGA Paint)
- RLA
- RLE
- 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
- SFW
- SGI
- SGI YAODL (Yet Another Object Description Language, Power-Flip Format)
- SHS
- Sinclair QL
- Sixel
- SKETCH
- SMV
- SNX
- SoFTIMAGE
- SPC
- SRF
- ST X SBIG
- StartupScreen s
- STV
- Sun Rasterfiles
- SWF
- SLK (Microsoft SYLK, Symbolic Link Format)
- System 7 clip
- TBC
- TCL
- TealPaint PDB
- TEX
- TIM PSX
- Tiny Viewer PDB
- TN
- TSR-80
- UNIX Plot Format
- Utah RLE
- VBM
- VFF
- VGS-8
- VICAR
- CITRoNIC
- VoXEL
- VPB
- VPM
- WBIN
- WBMP
- wbz
- Winfax FXM
- WordPerfect Graphics
- X Window Dump
- X3F
- XCF
- X-Face
- XIMG
- YUV
- Z04
- Z08
- Z16
- Z24
- Z32
