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== Icon, Cursor, and Avatar files == | == Icon, Cursor, and Avatar files == | ||
(Formats often used for icons, cursors, avatars, thumbnails, etc.) | (Formats often used for icons, cursors, avatars, thumbnails, etc.) | ||
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* [[Amiga Workbench icon]] (.info) | * [[Amiga Workbench icon]] (.info) | ||
* [[AMOS Icon Bank]] | * [[AMOS Icon Bank]] | ||
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* [[HDF]] (Hierarchical Data Format) | * [[HDF]] (Hierarchical Data Format) | ||
* [[IBM Audio Visual Connection (AVC) Still Video Image]] | * [[IBM Audio Visual Connection (AVC) Still Video Image]] | ||
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* [[KONTRON]] (embedded-systems company; apparently has graphic format of its own) | * [[KONTRON]] (embedded-systems company; apparently has graphic format of its own) | ||
* [[PaperPort (MAX)]] | * [[PaperPort (MAX)]] | ||
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* [[QDV]] (Random Dot Software Graphic) | * [[QDV]] (Random Dot Software Graphic) | ||
* [[QNT]] (Quantel raw uncompressed YCbCr?) (=[[Abekas YUV]]?) | * [[QNT]] (Quantel raw uncompressed YCbCr?) (=[[Abekas YUV]]?) | ||
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* [[QTL]] (YUV SECAM or PAL image) | * [[QTL]] (YUV SECAM or PAL image) | ||
* [[RDC]] (Rollei) | * [[RDC]] (Rollei) | ||
Revision as of 04:28, 5 November 2014
Electronic Formats concerned with Image Data.
See also:
- 3D and CAD/CAM Models
- Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
- Fonts
- Geospatial
- Page description languages
- Video
Adjustment data
- AAE sidecar format (Apple iOS 8 / OS X Yosemite)
Animated image formats
See also Video.
- ANI (NEOchrome)
- ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)
- ANIM
- APNG
- Cyber Paint Sequence (.seq)
- DeluxePaint Animation (ANM or Anim)
- DVM (DVM Movie/Magic Software DVM)
- FLIC
- GIF
- GIFV
- GRASP GL
- IFF-DEEP
- JPX
- MNG
- PGX (Portfolio)
- SWF (Flash)
- XNG
Character-based graphics
See Character Encodings for details of character sets, some of which include graphical or line-and-box-drawing characters.
- ANSI Art (.ans)
- ASCII Art
- AVATAR (FidoNet)
- BSAVE Image
- NAPLPS (North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax)
- PCBoard (.pcb)
- RIPscrip (or RIPscript)
- TUNDRA (.tnd)
Colors
(Profiles, color spaces, palettes)
Comics creation
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)
- Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
- Modified Huffman
- Modified READ
- Modified Modified READ
- NeXT 2-bit RLE
- PackBits
- Run-length colour encoding (T.45)
- ThunderScan compression
- Wavelet compression
Container formats
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)
- EPOC AIF
- Favicon
- GlowIcons
- HP 100LX/200LX icon (.icn)
- ICNS (Apple/Macintosh Icon)
- ICO (Microsoft Windows icons)
- Icon library (.icl)
- iThmb (iOS thumbnail images)
- Micrografx Icon (.icn)
- NewIcons
- Nokia Group Graphic (.ngg)
- Nokia Logo Manager bitmap (.nlm)
- Nokia Operator Logo (.nol)
- Nokia Picture Message (.npm)
- Nokia Startup Logo (.nsl)
- OS/2 Icon
- OS/2 Pointer (.ptr)
- PaintShop Pro Browser Cache (pspbrwse.jbf)
- RIPscrip Icon (RIPterm Image, .icn)
- Sony Mavica 411
- Sun icon
- Windows thumbnail cache (Thumbs.db)
- Xbox Live Avatar
- Xcursor
- XV thumbnail
- ZoomBrowser Ex thumbnail cache (ZbThumbnail.info)
Metadata Formats
Programming languages (graphic-specific)
- CEEMAC
- High Level Shading Language (HLSL) (uses byte array header files)
- OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
Raster Graphics Formats
- AAI (Dune image)
- Abekas YUV (.yuv)
- Ability Office PhotoPaint (.apx)
- Acorn Sprite
- AIPD
- Alias PIX
- Alpha Microsystems BMP
- Amber ARR Bitmap Image
- AMOS Sprite Bank
- Analyze AVW
- Apple volume label image
- ART (AOL compressed image)
- ART (PFS: First Publisher)
- AVS X image
- BFLI
- BigTIFF
- BioRad confocal image
- BMP (Windows BMP)
- Bob ray tracer bitmap
- BRender PIX
- BSAVE Image
- CALS raster
- Canvas (Atari) (.cpt, .cnv)
- Cartesian Perceptual Compression (CPC)
- CgBI
- Cineon
- Cisco IP Phone image
- CMU Andrew Toolkit image (.cmu)
- CMU Window Manager bitmap
- ColoRIX (RIX)
- CompuServe RLE
- Corel Photo-Paint image (.cpt)
- Crack Art (.ca1, .ca2, .ca3)
- DCX (ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush)
- DEGAS formats (.pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3)
- 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)
- ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet)
- EPOC MBM (Symbian Multibitmap)
- EPOC Sketch
- Epson Printer Bitmaps
- FaceSaver
- FBM image (Fuzzy Bitmap)
- FFLI
- FIASCO
- FITS
- FlashPix (.fpx)
- FRA (Fractint)
- GEM Raster (.img)
- geoPaint
- GeoTIFF
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
- GIMP Animated Brush (.gih)
- GIMP Brush (.gbr)
- GIMP Pattern (.pat)
- GoDot (.4bt)
- GRIB (Gridded Binary)
- GROB
- HP Paintjet
- HTC splashscreen (also known as NB format)
- IBM KIPS bitmap
- ICR (NCSA Telnet)
- IFF-DEEP
- ILBM (IFF-ILBM, IFF-PBM, HAM, etc.)
- Image Cytometry Standard (.ics)
- IMG/HDR (Analyze 7.5)
- ImgStar
- Interleaf image
- IWC (WaveL)
- JBIG
- JBIG2
- JEDMICS C4
- Jeff's Image Format
- JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)
- JNG (JPEG Network Graphics)
- JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1 Annex I)
- JPEG (JPEG Interchange Format, .jpg)
- JPEG 2000
- JPEG 2000 codestream (.j2k, .j2c)
- JPEG-HDR
- JPEG-LS
- JPEG XR (HD Photo)
- JPM (JPEG 2000 Part 6: Compound Image Format)
- JPS
- JPX (JPEG 2000 Part 2: Extensions, .jpf)
- KiSS CEL
- KoalaPainter (C64) (.koa, .gg)
- Kolor Raw (.kro)
- LIFF (Openlab Layered Image File Format)
- Lossless JPEG (original)
- LSM (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
- LSS16
- Lucasfilm picture (.lff)
- LuraDocument Format (.ldf)
- LuraWave (LWF)
- MacPaint
- Maya IFF
- MDA/MDP (MicroDesign Area/Page)
- MDI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)
- MGR bitmap
- MIFF (Magick Image File Format)
- Mixed Raster Content (MRC, T.44)
- MRF (Monochrome Recursive Format)
- MrSID
- MSP (Microsoft Paint file)
- MTV ray tracer
- 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)
- NIFF (Navy Image File Format)
- NIST IHead (.pct)
- OpenEXR (.exr)
- OpenRaster (.ora)
- OS/2 BMP
- OTA bitmap (Nokia Over The Air, .otb)
- packJPG (.pjg)
- Paint.NET image (.pdn)
- PaintShop Pro (.psp, .jsl, .pfr, .tub)
- Palm bitmap
- Palm Database ImageViewer / FireViewer PDB (.pdb)
- PAM (Portable Arbitrary Map)
- PCO B16
- PCPaint CLP
- 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)
- PhotoParade slideshow (.php, .4pp)
- Photoshop brush (.abr)
- PICtor (.pic; used by PCPaint and other ancient DOS software)
- Pixar picture (.pxr)
- PM (XV image)
- Pocket PC Bitmap (.2bp)
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- PRF (Polychrome Recursive Format)
- PrintMaster
- Print Shop, The
- PSB (Adobe Photoshop, large format)
- PSD (Adobe Photoshop)
- PSF (PhotoStudio)
- Psion PIC
- PTG (ArtRage)
- Puzzle image (X11)
- PWC (Piecewise-Constant Image Model)
- QRT Ray Tracer bitmap image
- Radiance HDR (RGBE, XYZE, .hdr, .pic)
- Raw bitmap
- RDIB
- RLA (Wavefront)
- SBIG CCDOPS image
- Scitex CT
- SCR (ZX Spectrum)
- Seattle FilmWorks (.sfw, .pwp)
- SGI (IRIS, RGB)
- Sixel
- Slow-scan television (.hrz)
- Spectrum 512 formats (.spu, .spc, .sps)
- SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format)
- STAD PAC
- Structured Fax File (.sff)
- Sun Raster (.ras, .sun)
- Sun TAAC image
- SuperView Graphics
- TealPaint PDB
- 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)
- Utah RLE
- VEGX
- VICAR
- VIFF (Khoros Visualization, .xv)
- VIPS (.v)
- Vivid IMG
- WBMP (Wireless Bitmap)
- WebP
- Webshots picture (.wbz, .wb1, .wbd, .wbc, .wbp)
- WhyPic (.ypc)
- Winzle Puzzle
- WOBA (bitmap data extracted from a HyperCard stack)
- WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg)
- WPB (openCanvas)
- WSQ
- XBM (X BitMap)
- XCF (GIMP image)
- Xerox Doodle brush
- Xerox EDMICS-MMR
- Xerox EDMICS-RLC
- 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.
Software, utilities, libraries, and APIs for graphic manipulation
- IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)
- ImageMagick
- Netpbm
- RECOIL (formerly FAIL)
- XnView
(See Graphic software)
System-specific graphic formats and modes
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)
- Aldus Placeable Metafile (.apm)
- Arts & Letters clip art library (.yal)
- Autodesk Slide
- CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
- CorelDRAW (.cdr, .cdx, .cdt, .cmx)
- DataDiagrammingML (Microsoft XML-based format)
- Encapsulated PostScript (.eps, .epsf, .epsi)
- Fig (Xfig format)
- FreeHand (Aldus/Adobe)
- GEM VDI Metafile (GEM Vector, VDI, .GDI)
- Gerber format (used in printed circuit design)
- MacDraw (later ClarisDraw)
- Microsoft Office Drawing
- OpenDocument Drawing (.odg)
- PICT (Macintosh graphics)
- PLOT-10 (Tektronix)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- Shapefile
- TIFF annotation data
- UNIX Plot Format
- Visio (.vsd, .vss, .vst)
- VML (Vector Markup Language)
- Windows Metafile (.wmf, .emf)
- WordPerfect Graphics (.wpg)
- Xar (Flare)
For modeling formats (such as IGES, NFF, OFF, POV-Ray, PRT, QRT), see 3D and CAD/CAM Models.
See also Machine Embroidery.
Miscellaneous
(Formats and topics that are clearly identified, but which don't fit into another category, or still need to be categorized)
- Apple Preferred (APF)
- BodyPaint 3D (Maxon: .b3d)
- Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
- HDF (Hierarchical Data Format)
- IBM Audio Visual Connection (AVC) Still Video Image
- KONTRON (embedded-systems company; apparently has graphic format of its own)
- PaperPort (MAX)
- RIFF (Container format often used for graphics)
- Windows Media Player Skin Package (.wmz)
Uncategorized
(Formats that may need to be more clearly identified and named, and moved to other categories)
- Bio
- BLD (Mega Paint)
- BSB
- BSP
- BUF
- BUM
- CAM
- CEL
- Chyron
- cicn
- CLP (Windows clipboard)
- cri
- csource
- CVG
- CWK
- DCS (Desktop Color Separation)
- DeltaVision
- DESR VFF
- Direct icns
- Diskus YUV (=Abekas YUV?)
- DJ1000
- DL
- dm2 (Gatan Digital Micrograph 2)
- dm3 (Gatan Digital Micrograph 3)
- DrawIT
- DVI (Intel DVI, Digital Video Interface, Intel Real-Time Video)
- ElectronicImage
- ESM (Enhance Simplex)
- FaxSTF
- FEP (IRIS CMYK Front End Processor, .ct ?)
- GATAN
- GFX (Instant Artist, Print Artist, WarCraft II Image)
- GrayPaint
- GRP (StarCraft graphics?)
- HMR (GeoTIFF Bitmap file)
- IBL
- IBM PIC
- IC Imagic
- Icd5
- IM (Chryon Liberty Paint)
- ImageLab/PrintTechnic
- IPLab
- Island Graphics TIFF
- ISS (unidentified; XnView claims to support it)
- j6i (Ricoh Digital Camera image file)
- Keynote PICT
- Liberty IM
- Lotus PIC
- MAG (MAGIchan Graphics)
- MET (Presentation Manager Metafile)
- Meteosat 5
- MHT
- MonkeyCard
- MonkeyLogo
- NAA/IPTC
- NIF (Gamebryo Model File / NetImmerse File)
- Nokia .pict
- NV12
- Oncor
- Palm image stream
- PDES
- PICS
- PORST
- Ppat
- QDV (Random Dot Software Graphic)
- QNT (Quantel raw uncompressed YCbCr?) (=Abekas YUV?)
- QTL (YUV SECAM or PAL image)
- RDC (Rollei)
- SAF (Standard Archive Format, AMSC Archive Format)
- SCR (Word for DOS)
- Scrap
- ScreenShot Hack PDB
- SHS
- Sinclair QL
- SMV
- SNX
- Softimage
- StartupScreen (Macintosh SCRN, .scrn?)
- STV
- SLK (Microsoft SYLK, Symbolic Link Format)
- System 7 clip
- TBC
- TCL
- TN
- VBM
- VGS-8
- VPB
- VPM
- WBIN (MacWavelets)
- Winfax FXM
- X-Face
- Z04, Z08, Z16, Z24, Z32 (z3d)
Unknown
(Formats that are difficult or impossible to identify, and which may be deleted from this page)
- .D
- CITRONIC
- FUJI
- JBI (JBIG?)
- MSX, MSX2, MSX+, MSX2+ (There may be obscure formats named MSX, but this looks like a list of computers)
- NCG
- Palette
- TEX (Could be any of a number of TEXture formats.)
- Tiny Viewer PDB (No unique format associated with this app?)
Links and Resources
- Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
- World's first computer art (1950s pinup image)
- Art created with atoms
- Raytracer program code that fits on a business card
- 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
- ImageMagick Identify Command-line Tool
- Perceptual Hashing
- Retrospecs: iOS app to convert images to imitate old 8-bit systems' graphics
