Graphics

Revision as of 23:25, 1 April 2013

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)
• 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

• ICC profile

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
• Run-length colour encoding (T.45)
• Wavelet compression

Container formats

• IFF
• RIFF

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
• Xbox Live Avatar

Metadata Formats

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

Raster Graphics Formats

• AAI (Dune image) [ImageMagick:AAI]
• Ability Office PhotoPaint (.apx)
• Acorn Sprite
• ART (AOL compressed image)
• ART (PFS: First Publisher)
• BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format)
• BigTIFF
• BioRad (Biorad confocal image) [Netpbm:bioradtopgm]
• BMP (Windows BMP)
• CALS [ImageMagick:CALS]
• CgBI
• CINEON [ImageMagick:CIN]
• CISCOIpPhoneImages [ImageMagick:CIP]
• DCX (ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush) [ImageMagick:DCX]
• DICOM (.dcm)
• DjVu
• DPX (SMTPE DPX) [ImageMagick:DPX]
• DNG
• Dr. Halo (.cut)
• Epson Printer Bitmaps [Netpbm:escp2topbm]
• Facesaver [Netpbm:fstopgm]
• FITS
• FlashPix (.fpx)
• GEM Raster (.img)
• GeoTIFF
• GIF (graphical interchange format; also used in animated form)
• HP Paintjet [Netpbm:pjtoppm]
• IFF-PBM
• ILBM (IFF-ILBM)
• ITHMB (iOS thumbnail images)
• J2K/J2C/JPC (JPEG2000 codestream)
• JEDMICS C4
• JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)
• JNG (JPEG Network Graphics)
• JP2 (JPEG2000/JP2 File Format)
• JPEG (JPEG Interchange Format, JIF, .jpg)
• JPEG2000
• JPEG-HDR
• JPEG-LS
• JPEG XR (HD Photo)
• JPM (JPEG2000 Part 6: Compound Image Format)
• JPX (JPEG2000 Part 2: Extensions, .jpf)
• LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
• MacPaint
• Maya IFF
• MDA/MDP (MicroDesign Area/Page)
• MDI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)
• MIFF (Magick Image File Format)
• MrSID
• MSP (Microsoft Paint file)
• MTV ray tracer
• NEOchrome (.neo)
• OS/2 BMP
• Paint.NET image (.pdn)
• Palm Database ImageViewer (.pdb)
• PBM/PGM/PPM/PNM/PAM (Netpbm formats)
• PCD (Photo CD) [ImageMagick:PCD]
• PCX (PC Paintbrush)
• PFM (Portable FloatMap)
• PI1/PI2/PI3/PC1/PC2/PC3 (DEGAS formats)
• PICtor file format (.pic; used by PCPaint and other ancient DOS software)
• PIX (Alias)
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
• PWP (Seattle Film Works / PhotoWorks) [ImageMagick:PWP]
• QRT Ray Tracer bitmap image
• RFF (Dore Raster File Format)
• RGBE (Radiance RGBE image format, .hdr) [ImageMagick:HDR]
• RLA (Wavefront)
• SBIG (Santa Barbara Instrument Group CCD) [Netpbm:sbigtopgm]
• SFW (Seattle Film Works) [ImageMagick:SFW]
• SGI (Irix image)
• SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format)
• SPU/SPC/SPS (Spectrum 512 formats)
• Sun Raster (.ras, .sun)
• TealPaint PDB
• TGA (Truevision Targa image)
• TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
• TIFF/EP
• TIFF/IT
• TIM (Sony PlayStation image file) [ImageMagick:TIM]
• TLG (associated with KiriKiri Adventure Game System)
• Utah RLE
• VICAR Rasterfile [ImageMagick:VICAR]
• WBMP (Wireless Bitmap)
• WebP
• WOBA (bitmap data extracted from a HyperCard stack)
• XBM (X BitMap)
• XCF (GIMP image)
• XPM (X PixMap)
• XWD (X Window Dump)
• YUV (Abekas YUV)

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.]

• Windows Media Player Skin Package (.wmz)

Vector Graphics Formats

• Acorn Draw
• CDR (CorelDRAW!, a variant of the OASIS document format)
• GEM VDI (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
• IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification)
• NFF (Haines NFF, Neutral File Format)
• Plot-10 (or Tek Plot-10)
• POV (Persistence of Vision, POV-Ray)
• QRT Ray Tracer scene description (.QRT)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• Shapefile
• VML (Vector Markup Language)

Uncategorized

• .D
• 3DS/ASC Autodesk 3D Studio
• 8BIM
• AFP
• AI (Adobe Illustrator) [ImageMagick:AI]
• AMBER ARR
• AMC
• Analyze
• ANPA
• Apple Preferred
• Atari Portfolio
• 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
• CT
• CVG
• CWK
• DCS
• DDS (Microsoft DirectDraw Surface) [ImageMagick:DDS]
• DeltaVision
• DESR VFF
• Direct icns
• Diskus YUV (=Abekas YUV?)
• DJ1000
• DKB (David K. Buck)
• DL
• dm2
• dm3
• Doodle
• DrawIT
• DVI (Intel DVI, Digital Video Interface, Intel Real-Time Video)
• ECW
• ElectronicImage
• ESM
• Fascimile
• FaxSFT
• fep
• FireViewer PDB
• FLH
• Freehand 10
• FUJI
• GATAN
• GFX
• Grasp GL
• GrayPaint
• GRIB (Gridded Binary)
• GRP
• Harvard Graphics
• HDF (Hierarchical Data Format)
• HGT (NASA SRTM Elevation Data)
• HMR (GeoTIFF Bitmap file)
• HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language)
• HPGL/2
• HTC splashscreen
• IBL
• IBM PIC
• IC Magic
• Icd5
• ICN
• IM
• ImageLab/PrintTechnic
• IMQ (NASA compressed PDS)
• IPLab
• IRIS (=SGI?)
• Island Graphics TIFF
• ISS (unidentified; XnView claims to support it)
• ithmb (iOS thumbnail)
• j6i (Ricoh Digital Camera image file)
• JBI (JBIG?)
• Keynote PICT
• KISS CEL (.cel)
• Koala (C64 Koala Paint image, .koa, .gg)
• Kodak DCS
• Kodak ICC
• Liberty IM
• LIFF (Openlab Layered Image File Format)
• LOGO
• Lotus PIC
• LuraDocument format (.ldf)
• LWF (LuraWave)
• MacDraw I
• MAG (MAGIchan Graphics)
• MBM (Symbian Multibitmap)
• MET (Presentation Manager Metafile)
• Meteosat 5
• MHT
• Microsoft Office Drawing
• MonkeyCard
• MonkeyLogo
• MPO (Multi Picture Object File)
• MRC (Medical Research Council)
• MRC (Mixed Raster Content)
• 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
• OFF
• OTA (Nokia Over The Air)
• P3D (Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center 3D Metafile)
• Palette
• Palm image stream
• PAC STAD
• PaperPort (MAX)
• PCL (Printer Control Language) [ImageMagick:PCL]
• PDES
• PDS (NASA Planetary Data System)
• PDS3
• PGC (Portfolio Graphics Compressed File)
• PGF (Progressive Graphics File)
• PIC (multiple B&W Atari, PC Paint, Psion)
• PICS
• Pixar PIC
• PM (Presentation Manager? PageMaker? PrintMaster? X Window PixelMap?)
• Ppat
• The Print Shop (Broderbund)
• PRT (Parallel Ray Trace)
• PTG (ArtRage)
• QDV
• QNT
• QTIF
• QTL
• Rayshade
• RDC
• RIB
• RIX (RIX Image File, ColoRIX VGA Paint)
• 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
• SGI YAODL (Yet Another Object Description Language, Power-Flip Format)
• 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
• TSR-80
• UNIX Plot Format
• VBM
• VFF
• VGS-8
• VPB
• VPM
• WBIN
• wbz
• 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)