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This is a '''comparison of [[image file formatsformat]]s''' (graphics file formats). This comparison primarily features file formats for [[2D image]]s.

==General==

Ownership of the format and related information.

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|-

! Format || Full name || Owner || based onFormat || [[File extension]] || [[MIME]] type || Application || PatentedPatent-<br>free

|-

! Abc

| Advanced Bitonal Compression

| LEAD Technologies

|

| .abc

|

| Bitonal document and check images.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leadtools.com/sdk/compression/abc|title=ABC Image Compression SDK Technology - LEADTOOLS|website=www.leadtools.com}}</ref>

| {{No|Yes}}

|-

! ADRG

| ARC Digitized Raster Graphics

|

|

| .adrg

|

|

|

|-

! AdobeResource

|

| [[Adobe Systems]]

| TIFF?

|

|

|

|

|-

! ADRI

| ARC Digitized Raster Images

|

|

| .adri

|

|

|

|-

!AF Design

|Affinity Designer

|[[Serif Europe]]

|

|.afdesign

|

|Vector graphics document for [[Affinity Designer]]. Can also be opened by [[Affinity Photo]].

|

|-

!AF Photo

|Affinity Photo

|[[Serif Europe]]

|

|.afphoto

|

|Raster graphics document for [[Affinity Photo]]. Can also be opened by [[Affinity Designer]].

|

|-

! [[Adobe Illustrator Artwork|AI]]

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| .ai

| application/illustrator,<br />application/postscript

| Adobe Illustrator

| style="max-width:100px;" | Adobe Illustrator files are editable using programs that support the format, such as Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDRAW, etc.

| {{No|Yes}}

|-

! Alias Pix image

|

|

|

| .pix, .matte, .mask,<br />.alpha, .als

|

| Supported by [[GIMP]]

|

|-

! AMI

|

|

|

| .ami

|

| Supported by Amica Paint

|

|-

! [[ANI (file format)|ANI]]

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| .ani

|

| Used by [[Microsoft Windows]]

|

|-

! [[ANIM]]

|

| [[Electronic Arts]] and [[Commodore AmigaInternational|Commodore]]

| [[Interchange File Format|IFF]]

| .iff, .anim

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| image/png

| [[Gecko (layout engine)|Gecko 1.9]] and [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]]

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[Apple Icon Image]]

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| .icns

|

| Used by [[macOS]]

|

|-

! APX

|

|

|

| .apx

|

| Supported by Ebuyer Photo Paint

|

|-

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|

|

|

|-

! ART

| PFS: 1st Publisher clip art

|

|

| .art

|

|

|

|-

! ARTB

| Artboard file format

| Mapdiva, LLC

|

| .artb

|

| style="max-width:100px;" | Vector image format; Artboard drawing files are editable using programs that support the format, such as Artboard and Ortelius

|

|-

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| text/vnd.ascii-art

| Supported by [[GIMP]]

|

|-

! Authorware map

|

| [[Adobe Systems]]

|

| .aam

| application/x-authorware-map

|

|

|-

! Authorware seg

|

| [[Adobe Systems]]

|

| .aas

| application/x-authorware-seg

|

|

|-

! Authorware bin

|

| [[Adobe Systems]]

|

| .aab, .x32, .u32,<br />.vox

| application/x-authorware-bin

|

|

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! [[AVIF]]

| AV1 Image File Format

| [[Alliance_for_Open_MediaAlliance for Open Media|Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia)]]

| [[AV1]]

| .avif

| image/avif

| General purpose

| [[GIMP]], [[Google Chrome]], [[Mozilla Firefox]], [[WebKit]]

| {{Yespartial|Noroyalty-free}}

|-

! AWD

|

|

|

| .awd

| image/awd

| Used by PhotoPhilia

|

|-

! [[Raw image format|BAY]]

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| .bay

|

|

|

|-

! BigTIFF

|

|

| TIFF

| .btf, .tiff, .tif

| image/tiff

|

|

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! [[BMP file format|BMP]]

| raw-data unencoded or encoded bitmap

| style="max-width:100px;" | simple colour image format, far older than Microsoft; some .bmp encoding formats developed/owned by [[Microsoft]]

|

| .bmp, .dib, .rle,<br />.2bp (2bpp)

| image/x-bmp

| Used by many 2D applications.

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! bmp compressor

| Bit Map Compressor

|

|

| .hpc

|

|

|

|-

! BLEND

| resource archive (3D meshes, textures, auxiliary data)

|

|

| .blend

|

| native data package format of [[Blender (software)|Blender]]

|

|-

! [[Better Portable Graphics|BPG]]

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| .bpg

|

| General purpose

| Suggestion to replace [[JPEG]], [[JavaScript]] decoder available<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bellard.org/bpg/|title=BPG Image format|website=bellard.org}}</ref>

| {{No|Yes}}

|-

! BRK

| Brooktrout Fax

|

|

| .brk

|

|

|

|-

! [[BSAVE (graphics image format)|BSAVE]]

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| Used by [[IBM PC]].

|

|-

! CAM

| Casio CAM

| [[Casio]]

| JPEG

| .cam

|

|

|

|-

! CADRG

| Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics

|

|

| .cadrg

|

|

|

|-

! [[CALS Raster file format|CAL]]

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|

|-

! Capture One RAW

|

| [[Phase One (company)|Phase One]]

|

| .cap

|

|

|

|-

! [[Camera Image File Format|CIFF]]

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| .cdr, .ccx, .cdt, .cmx

| application/coreldraw

| CorelDRAW

| style="max-width:100px;" | CorelDRAW files are editable using programs that support the format, such as CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, etc.

| {{No|Yes}}

|-

! [[Chasys Draw IES|CD5]]

| Chasys Draw IES Image

| John Paul Chacha

|

| .cd5

|

| Native format for Chasys Draw IES for storing layered images and animations

| {{No}}

|-

! [[Computer Graphics Metafile|CGM]]

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| .cgm

| image/cgm

| style="max-width:100px;" | CGM files are editable using programs that support the format, such as [[IBM Lotus Freelance Graphics]], Inkscape, etc.

|

|-

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|

|

|-

! Corel Paint Shop Pro Pattern

|

|

|

| .pat

|

| Supported by Corel Paint Shop Pro

|

|-

! [[Cartesian Perceptual Compression|CPC]]

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| image/cpi

| Highly compressed raster imaging format.

| {{No|Yes}}

|-

! CPKT

| APP5-CPKT Format

|

| JPEG

| .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg

| image/jpeg

| Used by PROSERPINE.

|

|-

! CPT

| Corel Photo-Paint Image

|

|

| .cpt

|

| Variant of TIFF up to and including version 6.0; proprietary as of 7.0 (1997)

|

|-

! Crack Art

|

| Detlef Röttger & Jan Borchers

|

| .ca1, .ca2, .ca3

|

| An application on [[Atari ST]]

|

|-

! CUT

|

|

|

| .cut

|

| Used by DSHELL.

|

|-

! CMYK

|

|

|

| .cmyk

|

|

|

|-

! CMYKA

|

|

|

| .cmyka

|

|

|

|-

! [[Raw image format|DCS]]

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|

|

|-

! Degas

| Design & Entertainment Graphic Arts System

| Integral Solutions

|

| .pi1, .pi2, .pi3,<br />.pc1, .pc2, .pc3

|

| An application on [[Atari ST]]

|

|-

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| .dng

|

| style="max-width:100px;" | A [[raw image format]] suitable as an archival format and as the native raw format of digital cameras<ref name="DNGintromanufacturers">Adobe: [http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/pdfs/DNG_primer_manufacturers.pdf Introducing the Digital Negative Specification: Information for manufacturers]</ref>

| style="max-width:100px;" | No: no known intellectual property encumbrances or license requirements{{Yes}}<ref name="CinemaDNGnoencumbrance">Adobe Labs: [http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cinemadng/ CinemaDNG] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307214651/http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cinemadng/ |date=2012-03-07 }} (last bullet point)</ref>

|-

! DIA

| Dia Drawing

|

| XML

| .dia

|

| Used by [[Dia (software)|Dia]]

|

|-

! [[DICOM]]

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| .dcm, .dicom

| application/dicom<ref name="rfc3240">RFC 3240</ref>

| style="max-width:100px;" | Numerous biomedical imaging applications<ref name="rfc3240" /> (e.g. [[OsiriX]], XMedCon), some general bitmap graphics applications (e.g. [[GIMP]], [[Adobe Photoshop|Photoshop]])

|

|-

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|

|-

! Doodle

|

|

|

| .doo

|

| An application on [[Atari ST]]

|

|-

! [[Digital Picture Exchange|DPX]]

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| .drf

|

|

|

|-

! Dr. Halo

|

|

|

| .cut

|

|

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| .ecw

|

| style="max-width:100px;" | Wavelet image format used primarily with geo-referenced aerial and satellite imagery

| {{No|Yes}}

|-

! EDG

| EDGE2 Original Format

| TAKABO

|

| .edg

|

| Used by EDGE2

|

|-

! EGI

| Exclusive Graphics Format

|

|

| .egi

|

|

|

|-

! [[Enhanced Metafile|EMF]]

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| TIFF

| .erf

|

|

|

|-

! ERI

| Entis Rasterized Image format

|

|

| .eri

|

|

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|-

! EVA

! [[Extended Vector Animation|EVA]]

| Extended Vector Animation

| [[Sharp Corporation]]

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| image/exr

| Used in film effects for 3d rendering and hdr images.

| {{Yes}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openexr.com/license.html |title=License |website=openexr.com}}</ref>

| {{dunno}}

|-

! Farbfeld

|

| Laslo Hunhold

|

| .ff

|

| Very simple lossless bitmap format used for image processing.

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! FIF

| Fractal Image Format

|

|

| .fif

|

|

|

|-

! FIG

| FIG format

|

|

| .fig

| application/x-xfig

| Supported by [[Xfig]]

|

|-

! [[FITS]]

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| Scientific (esp. astronomical) data acquisition

|

|-

! FLA

| Flash Source File

|

|

| .fla

|

|

|

|-

! [[FLIC (file format)|FLIC]]

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| .flif, .flf

|

| General-purpose,

| style="max-width:100px;" | General-purpose lossless image compression, superior compression.

superseded by Jpeg XL

| {{Yes|No}}

| {{Yes}}

|-

! FLW

| Kivio Document

|

|

| .flw

|

| Supported by [[Kivio]]

|

|-

! [[FlashPix|FPX]]

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|

|-

! FreeHand

|

| [[Adobe Systems]]

|

| .fh4, .fh5, .fh7,<br />.fh8, .fhc, .fh

| image/x-freehand

|

|

|-

! FutureSplash

|

| [[Adobe Systems]]

|

| .spl

| application/futuresplash

|

|

|-

! FXT

|

| [[3DFX]]

|

| .fxt

|

|

|

|-

! GEGL composition

|

|

| [[XML]]

| .xml

| application/xml

| Used by [[GEGL]]

|

|-

![[Gerber Format]]

| style="max-width:100px;" | The Gerber Format Specification

|[[Ucamco]]

|Printable ASCII

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| application/vnd.gerber

| [[Printed Circuit Board]] or PCB software

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[GIF]]

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| .gif, .gfa, .giff

| image/gif

| General purpose, popular for small animated images

| Supported by most web browsers. Supports transparency and animation.

| Expired{{Yes}}

|-

! GIMP brush

|

| The GIMP Team

|

| .gbr

|

| Supported by [[GIMP]]

|

|-

! GIMP compressed XJT image

|

| The GIMP Team

| JPEG, tar

| .xjt,<br />.xjtgz&nbsp;(compressed),<br />.xjtbz2&nbsp;(compressed)

| None.<br>lossy format, not<br>suitable for editing

| Supported by [[GIMP]]

|

|-

! GIH

| Gimp image hose

| The GIMP Team

|

| .gih

|

| Supported by [[GIMP]]

|

|-

! GIMP patterns

|

| The GIMP Team

|

| .pat

|

| Supported by [[GIMP]]

|

|-

! GRA

|

|

|

| .gra

|

| Used by QSV and QLD.

|

|-

! G3 Fax

|

|

|

| .g3

|

| Supported by [[GIMP]]

|

|-

! Hasselblad 3FR RAW

|

|

| TIFF

| .3fr

|

|

|

|-

! Hasselblad/Imacon FFF

|

|

|

| .fff

|

|

|

|-

! [[HEIF]]

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| .heif, .heic

| image/heif, image/heic,<br>image/heic-sequence,<br>image/heif-sequence

|General purpose

|

|{{No|Yes}}

|-

! [[HDRi (data format)|HDRi]]

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|-

! [[ICER (file format)|ICER]]

! HG

| Hyper Graphic Press

|

|

| .hg

|

| Supported by some old Japanese applications.

|

|-

! [[ICER]]

|

| [[NASA]] [[Mars Rovers]]

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|

|

|-

! IIQ RAW

| Intelligent Image Quality RAW

| [[Phase One (company)|Phase One]]

|

| .iiq

|

|

|

|-

! IMA

| .ima

| .ima team

|

| .ima

|

| style="max-width:100px;" | Format for [[photograph]]ic images with [[High dynamic range imaging|HDR]] encoding.

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! IMG (GEM Paint)

|

|

|

| .img

|

| Supported by GEM Paint

|

|-

! IMG (ERDAS IMAGINE)

| ERDAS IMAGINE

| ERDAS

| Hierarchical File<br>Architecture<br>(HFA)

| .img

|

| style="max-width:100px;" | Image format used primarily with geo-referenced imagery, thematic grid data, and elevation grid data.

| {{No|Yes}}

|-

! im4

|

| Masahide Hirabayashi

|

| .im4

|

|

|

|-

! Inkscape SVG

|

| The Inkscape Team

| SVG

| .svg, .svgz

| image/svg+xml

| Used by [[Inkscape]]

|

|-

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| .ico, .cur

| image/vnd.Microsoft.icon,<br>image/x-icon

| Used by [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[web browser]]s as [[favicon]]

|

|-

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| image/iges

| [[Computer-aided technologies|CAD/CAM]] [[interoperability]]

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[ILBM]]

| InterLeaved BitMap

| [[Electronic Arts]] and [[Commodore AmigaInternational|Commodore]]

| [[Interchange File Format|IFF]]

| .iff, .ilbm, .lbm

| image/x-ilbm

| [[Planar (computer graphics)|Planar]] graphics format designed for [[Amiga]] graphics hardware.

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! IPTC/NAA

| IPTC/NAA

|

| [[Tagged Image File Format|TIFF]]

|

|

|

|

|-

! [[JBIG]]

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| image/x-jng

|

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[JPEG]]

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| .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe<br />(containers:<br />.jif, .jfif, .jfi)

| image/jpeg

| General purpose

| [[Photograph]]ic images. Supported by most web browsers.

| {{Yes}}

| Expired<br>see also [[Forgent#JPEG]]

|-

! [[JPEG 2000]]

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| .jp2, .j2c, .jpc,<br />.j2k, .jpx

| image/jp2

| General purpose

| [[Wavelet]] lossy and lossless format for [[photograph]]ic images.

| {{partial|royalty-free}}

| Yes<br>no licence costs for part 1

|-

! [[JPEG-LS]]

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|

| [[Dolby Laboratories]]/[[BrightSide Technologies]]

| JPEG

|

|

| General purpose

| style="max-width:100px;" |[[High dynamic range imaging|HDR]] format based on [[RGBE image format|RGBE]] floating-point encoding and backward-compatible extensions to [[JFIF]] format; included in JPEG XT Part 2.

|

|-

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| .jxl

| image/jxl

| style="max-width:100px;" | General-purpose raster format with high-performance lossy and lossless compression, including lossless [[JPEG]] transcoding.

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[JPEG XT]]

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|

|

| General purpose

| style="max-width:100px;" | Backwards-compatible extension of the JPEG format for high bit depth and floating point [[High dynamic range imaging|HDR]] encoding of lossy and lossless images

|

|-

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| .wdp, .hdp, .jxr

| image/vnd.ms-photo

| General purpose

| style="max-width:100px;" | TIFF-like container format with [[High dynamic range imaging|HDR]] encoding for photographic images

| Yes ({{partial|royalty-free)}}

|-

! J6I

|

| [[RICOH]]

| JPEG

| .j6i

|

| Used by RICOH DC-1/2

|

|-

! [[Raw image format|KDC]]

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| TIFF

| .kdc

|

|

|

|-

! KOA

|

|

|

| .koa,<br />.gg (compressed)

|

| Supported by Koala Paint

|

|-

! KIFF

| Kt Interchange File Format

|

|

| .kif, .kiff

|

|

|

|-

! KISS CEL

|

|

|

| .cel

|

| Supported by [[GIMP]]

|

|-

! Kodak TIFF extensions

|

| [[Kodak]]

| TIFF

| .tif

|

|

|

|-

! Kodak YCC

|

| [[Kodak]]

|

| .pcd

|

|

|

|-

! KQP

|

| [[Minolta]]

| JPEG

| .kqp

|

|

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| TIFF

| .k25

|

|

|

|-

! Leaf Mosaic RAW

|

|

| TIFF

| .mos

|

|

|

|-

! LightStream Picture

|

|

|

| .lsp

|

|

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|

|

| Supported by [[LibtiffLibTIFF]]

|

|-

! Mac Paint

|

|

|

| .pnt, .mac

|

|

|

|-

! MDC

| Minolta RD175 Format

| [[Minolta]]

|

| .mdc

|

|

|

|-

! MET

| OS/2 Metafile Format

|

|

| .met

|

| Supported by SAS/GRAPH

|

|-

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| video/x-mng

|

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! MO:DCA

| MO:DCA

| [[IBM]]

|

| .mda, .ica, .mmr,<br />.afp

| image

| IBM's Content Manager and Image Plus

| {{No|Yes}}

|-

! MSP

| Microsoft Paint

| [[Microsoft]]

|

| .msp

|

|

|

|-

! MYD

| Myd format

|

|

| .myd

|

|

|

|-

! MYV

| Myv vector format

|

|

| .myv

|

|

|

|-

! [[Raw image format|NEF]]

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| TIFF

| .nef

|

|

|

|-

! MEF

| Mamiya RAW

| [[Mamiya]]

| TIFF

| .mef

|

|

|

|-

! Neochrome

|

| Dave Staugas

|

| .neo

|

| An application on [[Atari ST]]

|

|-

! MAG

| MAKIchan Graphic loader

| Woody-Rinn

|

| .mag

|

| Used by many old Japanese applications.

|

|-

! MAKI

| MAKIchan net format

| Woody-Rinn

|

| .mki

|

|

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| .miff

|

| Supported by [[ImageMagick]]

|

|-

! MSA

| Misachan File

| Hirohumi Iguchi

|

| .msa

|

| Supported by old Japanese applications

|

|-

! MSL

| Magick Scripting Language

| ImageMagick Studio

|

| .msl

|

| Supported by [[ImageMagick]]

|

|-

! MVG

| Magick Vector Graphics

| ImageMagick Studio

|

| .mvg

|

| Supported by [[ImageMagick]]

|

|-

! MPC

| Magick Persistent Cache image file format

| ImageMagick Studio

|

| .mpc

|

| Supported by [[ImageMagick]]

|

|-

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|

|

|-

! NSK-TIFF

| NSK-TIFF

| [[Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association|Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (日本新聞協会)]]

| [[Tagged Image File Format|TIFF]]

|

|

|

|

|-

! OAZ

| OAZ Fax

| Oaz Communications

|

| .oaz

|

| Used by NetFax Manager

|

|-

! ODG

| OpenDocument drawing

|

|

| .odg

|

| Supported by [[Collabora Online|Collabora Online Draw]], [[LibreOffice Draw]]

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! ORA

| OpenRaster

| freedesktop.org

| OpenDocument<br>XML

| .ora

|

| DrawPile, [[GIMP]], [[Krita]], MyPaint, Nathive, [[Pinta (software)|Pinta]]

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[Raw image format|ORF]]

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|

|

|-

! ORTL

| Ortelius file format

| Mapdiva, LLC

|

| .ortl

|

| Vector image/map format; used by Ortelius

|

|-

! [[PAM graphics format|PAM]]

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| image/x-portable-arbitrarymap

|

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! Panasonic RAW

|

| [[Panasonic]]

| TIFF

| .raw, .rw2

|

|

|

|-

! PCIF

| Polyomino Compressed Image Format

|

|

| .pcf

|

|

|

|-

! PhaseOne P25/P30/P45 RAW

|

| [[Phase One (company)|Phase One]]

|

| .tif, .tiff

|

|

|

|-

! PictureGear Pocket Image

|

|

|

| .prc

|

|

|

|-

! [[Netpbm format|PBM]]

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| image/x-portable-bitmap

|

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! PCD

| Kodak ImagePac Photo CD

| [[Kodak]]

|

| .pcd

| image/jpcd

|

|

|-

! PCF

| Pixel Coordination Format

|

|

| .pcf

| image/pcf

|

|

|-

! [[PCX]]

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| .pcx, .pcc, .dcx

| image/x-pcx

| style="max-width:100px;" | Dated rle packed indexed image format, used in some early 3d shooting games like Unreal Tournament as it takes up very little space and is easy to decode.

| {{dunno}}

|-

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| application/pdf

|

|

|-

! PDN

| [[Paint.NET]] Image

| dotPDN LLC

|

| .pdn

|

| Preferred and supported by [[Paint.NET]]

|

|-

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| [[Photograph]]ic images, eventual replacement for [[JPEG]].

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[Netpbm format|PGM]]

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| image/x-portable-graymap

|

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[Precision Graphics Markup Language|PGML]]

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|

|

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! Photochrome

|

|

|

| .pcs

|

|

|

|-

! [[Netpbm format|PNM]]

| Portable Anymap File Format

|

| [[ASCII]]

| .pnm

| image/x-portable-anymap

|

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! PTX

| Pentax RAW Bitmap Graphic

| [[Pentax]]

|

| .ptx

|

|

|

|-

! Pi

|

| Yanagisawa

|

| .pi

|

| Used by some old Japanese applications.

|

|-

! PIC

| Yanagisawa PIC

| Yanagisawa

|

| .pic

|

| Used by many old Japanese applications.

|

|-

! PIC

| DoGA PIC

| Project Team DoGA

|

| .pic

|

| Used by DoGA CGA System.

|

|-

! [[PICT]]

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| image/pict

| [[Metafile]] for [[Classic Mac OS]], not meant for print publishing.

| Likely <br>expired

|-

! [[PICtor PIC image format|PICtor]]

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| Supported by [[PCPaint]]

|

|-

! PIC2

|

| Yanagisawa

|

| .p2

|

| Supported by some old Japanese applications.

|

|-

! PLD

| PhotoLine Document

| Computerinsel GmbH

|

| .pld

| application/pld

| Native format of the PhotoLine image editing program.

| {{dunno}}

|-

! PMP

|

| [[Sony]]

| JPEG

| .pmp

|

| Used by Sony Cyber-Shot

|

|-

! [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]]

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| .png

| image/png

| General purpose

| [[W3C]] endorsed replacement for [[GIF]]. Supported by most web browsers.

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[Netpbm format|PNM]]

| Portable Anymap File Format

|

| [[ASCII]]

| .pnm

| image/x-portable-anymap

|

| {{Yes}}

|-

! [[PostScript]]

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| image/x-portable-pixmap

| Very easy to understand. Programs to analyze and write to this format are easily written.

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[Adobe Photoshop#File format|PSD]]

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| image/vnd.adobe.photoshop<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/vnd.adobe.photoshop |title=vnd.adobe.photoshop |access-date=2010-01-28 }}</ref>

| Used mainly for storing image manipulation & editing data.

| {{No|Yes}}

|-

! [[Corel Paint Shop Pro|PSP]]

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| .psp, .tub,<br />.pspimage

| image/x-psp

| Supported by [[Paint Shop Pro]], [[GIMP]]

| {{dunno}}

|-

! [[QOI (image format)|QOI]]

! PSX TIM

| Quite OK Image Format

|

| Dominic Szablewski

|

|

| .tim

|

|

|

|-

! PSX TIM2

| Sony PlayStation Tim2

| [[Sony]]

|

| .tm2, .str

|

| Used by PlayStation 2

|

|-

! PXA

|

|

|

| .pxa

|

| Used by [[Pixia]]

|

|-

! QuickTime Image

|

| [[Apple Inc.]]

|

| .qtif, .qti, .qif

|

|

|

|-

! Q0

|

|

|

| .q0

|

|

|

|-

! Q4

| XLD4

| MAJYO

|

| .q4

|

|

| .qoi

|

|

| {{Yes}}

|-

! [[Radiance (software)#Scene description format|RAD]]

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|

| .raf

|

|

|

|-

! RGB

| image/colourmap data in RGB format

|

|

| .rgb

|

|

|

|-

! RGBA

| style="max-width:100px;" | image/colourmap data in RGB format, with Alpha channel

|

|

| .rgba

|

|

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| image/vnd.radiance

| [[Radiance (software)|Radiance]], most HDR imaging software

|

|-

! RHIF

| Rhapsoft Image Format

| Romain Piveteau

| SQLite

| .rhif

|

| [[LiveQuarz]] file format

|

|-

! R3D

| RED REDCODE RAW

| [[RED Digital Camera Company|Red]]

|

| .r3d

|

|

|

|-

! SAI

|

| SYSTEMAX

|

| .sai

|

| Supported by [[SAI (software)|PaintTool SAI]]

|

|-

! SCT

| [[Scitex Continuous Tone]] Picture

|

|

| .sct

|

|

|

|-

! SDA

|

| [[Sun Microsystems]]

|

| .sda

|

| Supported by [[StarOffice]] Draw 3–5

|

|-

! SDD

|

| [[Sun Microsystems]]

|

| .sdd

|

| Supported by [[StarOffice]] Draw 3–5

|

|-

! SFW

| Seattle File Works image

| Seattle File Works

| JPEG (JFIF)

| .sfw, .pwp

|

| JPEG-converters sfwjpg and pwpjpg for [https://web.archive.org/web/20100529022333/http://www.lipman.org/software/sfw/ Unix/Linux] and [http://www.joenord.com/apps/sfwjpg/ Windows]

|

|-

! SGB

|

| [[Sun Microsystems]]

|

| .sgb

|

| Supported by StarOffice Graphics 2

|

|-

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|

|-

! Shockwave Director

|

| [[Adobe Systems]]

|

| .dir, .dcr, .dxr, .fgd

| application/x-director

| Used by [[Adobe Shockwave]].

|

|-

! SHAPE

| Dia Stencil

|

| SVG

| .shape

|

| Used by [[Dia (software)|Dia]].

|

|-

! SK

|

|

|

| .sk

|

| Supported by [[Skencil]]

|

|-

! SketchUp Format

|

|

|

| .skp, .skb

|

| Supported by [[SketchUp]]

|

|-

! SML

| Kivio stencil

|

|

| .sml

|

| Supported by [[Kivio]]

|

|-

! [[Raw image format|SRF]]

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|

|

|-

! SUN

| Sun rasterfile

| [[Sun Microsystems]]

|

| .sun, .ras, .rs, .im1,<br />.im8, .im24, .im32

|

| Supported by [[GIMP]]

|

|-

! STX

| SBIG CCD camera ST-x

|

|

| .stx, .st4, .st5,<br />.st6, .st7, .st8,<br />.st9

|

|

|

|-

! SView5 Graphics

|

| Andreas Kleinert

|

| .svg/.sgx

|

| Used by SView5-Library/SDK

|

|-

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| .svg,<br />.svgz (compressed)

| image/svg+xml

| Vector graphics

| Scriptable vector image format; supported by major web browsers, occasionally via plug-in.

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[SWF]]

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| .swf

| application/x-shockwave-flash

| Adobe Flash Player

| Supported by many web browsers via plug-in.

|

|-

! SXD

| [[OpenOffice.org]] 1.0 drawing format

|

|

| .sxd

|

|

|

|-

! [[Truevision TGA|TGA]]

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| .tga, .tpic

| image/tga

| Texture format used by many 3d application.

| Used by many 3D rendering applications and 3d videogames for storing textures.

| {{Yes?}}

|-

! [[TaggedTag Image File Format|TIFF]]

| TaggedTag Image File Format

| [[Adobe Systems]]

|

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| image/tiff

| Document scanning and imaging format, also functions as a container.

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[TIFF/EP]]

| Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography

| International Organization for Standardization

| [[TaggedTag Image File Format|TIFF]]

| .tiff, .tif

|

|

|

|-

! TIFF-FX

| Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended

|

| [[Tagged Image File Format|TIFF]]

| .tiff, .tif

| image/tiff-fx

|

|

|-

! Tiny Stuff

|

| David Mumper

|

| .tny, .tn1, .tn2, .tn3,<br />.tn4, .tn5, tn6

|

| An application on [[Atari ST]]

|

|-

! TLG5

|

|

|

| .tlg

|

| Used by [[KiriKiri]]

|

|-

! TLG6

|

|

|

| .tlg

|

| Used by [[KiriKiri]]

|

|-

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| XML

| .htm, .html

| style="max-width:160px5em" | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.vmlDrawing

| [[Internet Explorer]], [[Microsoft Office]]

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format|WBMP]]

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| image/vnd.wap.wbmp

| Used in [[Wireless Application Protocol|WAP]]-pages

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[WebP]]

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| .webp

| image/webp

| General purpose

| Provides an alternative to JPEG, PNG and GIF with superior compression

| Yes ({{partial|royalty-free)}}

|-

! WinFax

|

| [[NortonLifeLock|Symantec]]

|

| .wfx, fxs, fxo

|

|

|

|-

! [[Windows Metafile|WMF]]

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|

|

|-

! WordPerfect Graphics File

|

|

|

| .wpg

|

|

|

|-

! [[XAML]]

| Extensible Application Markup Language

| [[Microsoft]]

| [[XML]]

| .xaml

| application/xaml+xml

| Used by [[Windows Presentation Foundation]] and [[Microsoft Silverlight]].

| {{dunno}}

|-

! [[Xar (graphics)|XAR]]

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| .xar

| application/vnd.xara

| Used by [[Xara Photo & Graphic Designer]]

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[XBM]]

| style="max-width:100px;" | X BitMap, colour variant of original black-and-white bitmap (bmp) format

|

|

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|-

! [[XCF (file format)|XCF]]

| style="max-width:100px;" | XCF, name derived from [[eXperimental Computing Facility]]

| The GIMP Team

|

| .xcf,<br />.xcfbz2&nbsp;(compressed),<br />.xcfgz&nbsp;(compressed)

| application/x-gimp-image

| Used by GIMP

|

|-

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| .xpm, .pm

| image/x-xpm

| Used by many legacyLegacy Unix applications.

|

|-

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|

|-

! Format || Full name || Owner || based Format || [[File extension]] || [[MIME]] type || Application || Patent-<br>free

! XWD

| xwud X11 window dumper/undumper screenshot image

|

|

| .xwd, .x11

|

| Used by [[X Window System]]

|

|-

! XYZ

| [[RPG Maker]] image file

| [[ASCII (company)|ASCII]]

|

| .xyz

|

| [[RPG Maker]]

| {{Yes|No}} <!--zlib-based simple format-->

|-

! YCbCr

|

|

|

| .ycbcr

|

|

|

|-

! YCbCrA

|

|

|

| .ycbcra

|

|

|

|-

! YUV

|

|

|

| .yuv

|

|

|

|-

! ZDT

|

|

|

| .zdt

|

| Used by TECH Win

|

|-

! Format || Full name || Owner || based Format || [[File extension]] || [[MIME]] type || Application || Patented

|}

==Technical details==

{{sort-under}}

{| class="sortable sort-under wikitable sticky-header" style="text-align: center; width: auto; font-size: smaller;"

! Format || [[Compression algorithm|Compression<br /> algorithm]] || [[raster graphics|Raster]]/<br />[[Vector graphics|vector]] || Maximum<br/>[[Color depth]]

! {{verth|[[Indexed color]]}} || {{verth|[[Transparency in graphic files|Transparency]]}}

! {{verth|[[Metadata]]}}

! {{verth|[[Interlace (bitmaps)|Interlacing]]}}

! {{verth|Multi-page}} || {{verth|[[Animation]]}} || {{verth|Layers}} || {{verth|[[Color management]]}} || {{verth|Extendable}}

! [[High dynamic range imaging|HDR format]]

! [[CMYK_color_model|CMYK]]

{| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: auto; font-size: smaller;"

! style="width: 7em;"| Format || [[Compression algorithm|Compression<br /> algorithm]] || [[raster graphics|Raster]]/<br />[[Vector graphics|vector]] || [[Color depth]] || [[Indexed color]] || [[Transparency in graphic files|Transparency]] || [[Metadata]] || [[Interlace (bitmaps)|Interlacing]] || Multi-page || [[Animation]]<ref>Animations are often encoded as [[Video alternative to GIF|video]].</ref> || Layers || [[Color management]] || Extend&shy;able || [[High dynamic range imaging|HDR format]]

<!-- If someone could find the details for .pdn because I think it "deserves" to be here -->

|-

! [[Adobe Illustrator Artwork|AI]]

| Lossy and lossless

| {{yes|Both}}

| 8 bpc

| 1, 8, 24, and 32 (possibly with multiple palettes)

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[AVIF]]

| [[AV1]]Lossy [[Lossy_compressioncompression|Lossy]] and [[Lossless_compressionLossless compression|lossless]] ([[AV1]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 12 bpc

| 1, 8, 10, and 12-bit color depths per channel/alpha. 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 [[chroma subsampling]] and RGB

| {{unkno}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unkno}}

| {{unkno}}

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|-

! [[BMP file format|BMP]]

| None, lossy (JPEG), and lossless ([[Run-length encoding|RLE]], JPEG, and PNG)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 16 bpc

| 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, and 64

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|-

! [[Better Portable Graphics|BPG]]

| [[HEVC]], Lossy and lossless ([[High Efficiency Video Coding|HEVC]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 14 bpc

| 8 to 14 bits per channel

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{unkn/a}}

|

|-

! [[Chasys Draw IES|CD5]]

| Lossless (ACSC)

| {{yes|Both}}

| 16 bpc

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{partial}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[CorelDRAW|CDR]]

| Lossy and lossless

| {{yes|Both}}

| 8 bpc

| 1, 8, 24,and 32 (multiple palettes)

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[Cartesian Perceptual Compression|CPC]]

| Lossy (CPC)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 1

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| {{yes}}, via embedded dictionary

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[Encapsulated PostScript|EPS]]

| None, and lossless ([[LZW]], [[Deflate]], [[Run-length encoding|RLE]], [[Discrete cosine transform|DCT]])

| {{yes|Both}}

| Device specific

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

! [[OpenEXR|EXR]]

| None, and lossless ([[Run-length encoding|RLE]], [[ZIP (file format)|ZIP]], Piz, PXR24, and B44, B44A, DWAA, DWAB)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 32 bpc

| 16–128 ([[IEEE floating-point standard|floating-point]])

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|-

! Farbfeld

| None

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 64 (16-bits-per-channel)

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|-

! [[Free Lossless Image Format|FLIF]]

| Lossless, (MANIAC entropy coding)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 16 bpc

| 1 to 16 bits per channel

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}, Adam∞

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}, via chunks

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}, with suitable [[ICC profile|color profile]]

|

|-

! [[GIF]]

| Lossless ([[Lempel–Ziv–Welch|LZW]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 255 colors

| Indexed (1bpc to 8bpc) and grayscale (8bpc)

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; 1bpp plane-only mask using color index

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

| {{yes}} (GIF89a)

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|-

! [[HD Photo]] / [[JPEG XR]]

| Lossy and lossless (bi-orthogonal transform)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 32 bpc

| 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64<!--, 96-->, and 128 ([[IEEE floating-point standard|floating-point]])

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

! [[ILBM]]

| OptionalNone and lossless ([[run-length encoding|RLE]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 8 bpc

| 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 64 [[Extra Half-Brite|EHB]], 128, 256 ([[8-bit computing|8-bit]]), 4,096 ([[Hold-And-Modify|HAM6]] pseudo 12-bit), 4,096 pure [[12-bit computing|12-bit]], 262, 144 ([[Hold And Modify#Advanced Graphics Architecture HAM mode (HAM8)|HAM8]] pseudo [[18-bit computing|18-bit]]), and [[24-bit computing|24-bit]]

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|-

! IMA

| Lossy and lossless original mutiresolution analysis transformation

| {{partial|Raster}}

| [[8-bit computing|8-bit]], [[16-bit computing|16-bit]] [[integer]], [[32-bit computing|32-bit]] [[floating-point]]

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|-

! [[JPEG]]

| Lossy (and partly lossless), [[discrete cosine transform|DCT]], [[run-length encoding|RLE]], and [[Huffman coding|Huffman]] predictive nearest neighbor)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 8 bpc

| [[8-bit computing|8-bit]] ([[greyscale]]), 12-bit, and [[24-bit computing|24-bit]]

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}} (see unofficial [[JPEG-HDR]])

| {{yes}}

|-

! [[JPEG 2000]]

| Lossy and lossless ([[Discrete Wavelet Transform|DWT]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 38 bpc

| [[8-bit computing|8-]] and [[16-bit computing|16-bit]] ([[greyscale]]) with possibly color up to [[48-bit computing|48-bit]]

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{no}}

| Yes

|-

! [[JPEG XL]]

| Lossy and lossless (VarDCT mode, Modular mode)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 32 bpc

| up to 32 bits per channel

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| None

| {{yes|Both}}

| 32 bpc

| [[grayscale]], [[RGB]], [[XYZ color space|XYZ]] (8bpc, 16bpc, float16bpc, float32bpc), [[CMYK]], [[Lab color space|L*a*b*]] and [[YCbCr]] (8bpc, 16bpc, float32bpc)

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

! [[OpenRaster|ORA]]

| Lossless

| {{yes|Both}}

| 16 bpc

| 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

! [[PAM graphics format|PAM]]

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[PCX]]

| None, and lossless ([[Run-length encoding|RLE]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 8 bpc

| 1, 2, 4, 8, 24 and 32

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[Progressive Graphics File|PGF]]

| Lossy and lossless ([[Discrete Wavelet Transform|DWT]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 16 bpc

| [[grayscale]]: 1, 8, 16, 31; [[RGB]]: 12, 16, 24, 32, and 48

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[PICT]]

| None, lossy (Quicktime), and lossless ([[run-length encoding|RLE]], and QuickTime)

| {{yes|Both}}

| 8 bpc

| 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{no}}?

| {{no}}

|-

! PLD

| Optional ZIP, JPEG

| {{yes|Both}}

| 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|-

! [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]]

| Lossless and ([[deflateDeflate]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 16 bpc

| [[binary image|bitmap]] (1bpc), [[indexed color|indexed]] (8bpc), [[grayscale]] and [[RGB]] (8bpc, 16bpc)

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; [[indexed color|indexed]], [[grayscale]] and [[RGB]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}, [[Adam7 algorithm]]

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Yes}} (since the third edition)<ref>{{cite web |title=Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition) is now a W3C Recommendation |url=https://www.w3.org/news/2025/portable-network-graphics-png-specification-third-edition-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/ |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |access-date=2025-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250625023303/https://www.w3.org/news/2025/portable-network-graphics-png-specification-third-edition-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/ |archive-date=25 June 2025 |date=24 June 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>

| {{no}} (but see [[Multiple-image Network Graphics|MNG]] and [[Animated Portable Network Graphics|APNG]])

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}, via chunks

| {{no}}, see discussion

| {{no}}

|-

! [[Portable pixmap|PPM]]

| None

| {{partial|Raster}}

| Up8 to 16ppc

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[Adobe Photoshop|PSD and PSB]]

| None and lossless ([[Run-length encoding|RLE]])

| {{yes|Both}}

| 32 bpc

| [[binary image|bitmap]] (1bpc), [[duotone]], [[indexed color|indexed]] (8bpc), [[grayscale]], [[RGB]], [[CMYK]], [[Lab color space|Lab]] and multichannel (8bpc, 16bpc, 32bpc)

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; [[indexed color|indexed]], [[grayscale]], [[RGB]], [[CMYK]] and [[Lab color space|Lab]]

| {{yes}}

| {{n/a}}

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| {{no}}?

| {{yes}}

|

|-

! [[Corel Paint Shop Pro|PSP]]

| None

| {{yes|Both}}

| 16 bpc

| 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, and 48

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; 8b and 16b per-pixel [[alpha channel]]

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]]

| None and lossless ([[gzip]])

| {{partial|Vector}}<ref>{{efn|Supports raster data embedding with the use of [[Base64]]</ref>.}}

| 8 bpc

| [[RGB]] (8bpc)

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}, [[XML]] based

| {{n/a}}

|

|-

! [[Truevision TGA|TGA]]

| None, lossless ([[run-length encoding|RLE]]), and other

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 32 bpc

| 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{unkn/a}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[TaggedTag Image File Format|TIFF]]

| None, lossless ([[LZW]], [[Run-length encoding|RLE]], [[ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]), and other

| {{yes|Both}}

| 16 bpc

| 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32

| {{yes}} (1–8 bit modes)

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}, for JPEG compression

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

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| {{yes}}, via tags

| {{yes}}, TIFF float

| {{yes}}

|-

! [[WebP]]

| Lossy and lossless

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 8 bpc

| [[YUV]]420P (12bpp), [[YUV]]A420P (20bpp) and [[RGB]] (8bpc)

| Internally in lossless mode, but not user-accessible{{no}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Issue 437: allow palette extraction from indexed lossless images|url=https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webp/issues/detail?id=437|website=WebP issue tracker |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lossless Bitstream Specification, section Color Indexing Transform |url=https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_lossless_bitstream_specification#color_indexing_transform44_color_indexing_transform |website=WebP official reference at Google Developers |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref>

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|-

! [[XAML]]

| None

| {{partial|Vector}}

| 32 and 64

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|-

! [[XCF (file format)|XCF]]

| None and lossless ([[gzip]], [[bzip2]] and [[XZ Utils|xz]])

| {{yes|Both}}

| 32 bpc

| [[indexed color|indexed]] (8bpc), [[grayscale]] and [[RGB]] (8bpc, 16bpc, float16bpc, 32bpc, float32bpc, float64bpc)

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

|- class="sortbottom"

! style="width: 7em;"| Format || [[Compression algorithm]] || [[raster graphics|Raster]]/<br />[[Vector graphics|vector]] || Maximum
[[Color depth|Color]]
[[Color depth||depth]]
! [[Indexed color]] || [[Transparency in graphic files|TransparencyTrans-parency]] || [[Metadata|Meta-]] |
[[Metadata|data]]
! [[Interlace (bitmaps)|InterlacingInter-]]
[[Interlace (bitmaps)||lacing]]
! Multi-page || [[Animation|Anima-tion]] || Layers || [[Color management|Color manage-ment]] || Extend-
&shy;able ||
! [[High dynamic range imaging|HDR format]]

! [[CMYK_color_model|CMYK]]

|}

{{notelist}}

==See also==