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 (NEOchrome)
- ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)
- APNG
- DVM (DVM Movie/Magic Software DVM)
- GIF (graphical interchange format; also used in single-image form)
- FLIC
- MNG
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)
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 (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
Container formats
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)
- ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)
- Apple File and App Icons
- CUR (Microsoft Windows cursors)
- Favicon
- ICO (Microsoft Windows icons)
- OS/2 BMP
- Sun icon
- Windows thumbnail cache (Thumbs.db)
- Xbox Live Avatar
Metadata Formats
Raster Graphics Formats
- AAI (Dune image)
- Abekas YUV (.yuv)
- Ability Office PhotoPaint (.apx)
- Acorn Sprite
- ART (AOL compressed image)
- ART (PFS: First Publisher)
- Atari graphics formats
- BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format)
- 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)
- JEDMICS C4
- JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)
- JNG (JPEG Network Graphics)
- JP2 (JPEG2000/JP2 File Format)
- JPEG (JPEG Interchange Format, JIF, .jpg)
- JPEG2000
- JPEG2000 codestream (JPC, .j2k, .j2c)
- JPEG-HDR
- JPEG-LS
- JPEG XR (HD Photo)
- JPM (JPEG2000 Part 6: Compound Image Format)
- JPX (JPEG2000 Part 2: Extensions, .jpf)
- KoalaPainter (C64) (.koa, .gg)
- LIFF (Openlab Layered Image File Format)
- LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
- 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)
- 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)
- PICtor (.pic; used by PCPaint and other ancient DOS software)
- PIX (Alias)
- PM (XV image)
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- 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 image formats
- .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.
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)
- GEM VDI (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
- Plot-10 (or Tek Plot-10)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- Shapefile
- VML (Vector Markup Language)
- IGES, NFF, OFF, POV-Ray, PRT, QRT, etc.: See 3D and CAD/CAM Models
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
- KISS CEL (.cel)
- Kodak DCS
- Kodak ICC
- Liberty IM
- LOGO
- Lotus PIC
- LuraDocument format (.ldf)
- 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
- NOL (Nokia Operator Logo)
- 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
- SWF
- 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
