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==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

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! [[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}}

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

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| .ani

|

| Used by [[Microsoft Windows]]

|

|-

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| image/png

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

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Apple Icon Image]]

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| .icns

|

| Used by [[macOS]]

|

|-

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| .avif

| image/avif

| General purpose

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

| {{Yespartial|Noroyalty-free}}

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! [[Raw image format|BAY]]

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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}}

|-

! [[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}}

|-

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

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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}}

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! [[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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| image/cpi

| Highly compressed raster imaging format.

| {{No|Yes}}

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! [[Raw image format|DCS]]

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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>

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! [[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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| .ecw

|

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

| {{No|Yes}}

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! [[Enhanced Metafile|EMF]]

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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}}

|-

! [[FITS]]

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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}}

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! [[FlashPix|FPX]]

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![[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}}

|-

! [[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]]

|

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

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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}}

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! [[ILBM]]

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| image/x-ilbm

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

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[JBIG]]

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| image/x-jng

|

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[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

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! [[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)}}

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! [[Raw image format|KDC]]

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| video/x-mng

|

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Raw image format|NEF]]

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| .miff

|

| Supported by [[ImageMagick]]

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| image/x-portable-arbitrarymap

|

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Netpbm format|PBM]]

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| image/x-portable-bitmap

|

| {{Yes|No}}

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

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Netpbm format|PGM]]

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| image/x-portable-graymap

|

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Precision Graphics Markup Language|PGML]]

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|

| {{Yes|No}}

|-

! [[PICT]]

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| image/pict

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

| Likely <br>expired

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! [[PICtor PIC image format|PICtor]]

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| .png

| image/png

| General purpose

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

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[Netpbm format|PNM]]

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| image/x-portable-anymap

|

| {{Yes|No}}

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! [[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}}

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! [[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}}

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|

| {{Yes|No}}

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

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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.

|

|-

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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

|

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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)}}

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! [[Windows Metafile|WMF]]

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|

|

|-

! [[XAML]]

| Extensible Application Markup Language

| [[Microsoft]]

| [[XML]]

| .xaml

| application/xaml+xml

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

| {{dunno}}

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! [[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 || PatentedPatent-<br>free

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==Technical details==

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! style="width: 7em;"| 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|Trans-Transparency]]}}

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

[[Transparency in graphic files|parency]]

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

! [[Metadata|Meta-]]

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

[[Metadata|data]]

! [[Interlace (bitmaps)|Inter-]]

[[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]]

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| Lossy and lossless

| {{yes|Both}}

| 8 bpc

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

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{n/a}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[AVIF]]

| [[AV1]] [[Lossy compression|Lossy]] and [[Lossless 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

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{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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| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

|-

! [[Chasys Draw IES|CD5]]

| Lossless, (ACSC)

| {{yes|Both}}

| 16 bpc

| 1, 8, 24, 32 and 64

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[CorelDRAW|CDR]]

| Lossy and lossless

| {{yes|Both}}

| 8 bpc

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

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{n/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}}

|

|-

! [[Free Lossless Image Format|FLIF]]

| Lossless, (MANIAC entropy coding)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 16 bpc

| 1 to 16 bits per channel

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}, via chunks

| {{yes}}

|

|-

! [[GIF]]

| Lossless ([[Lempel–Ziv–Welch|LZW]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 255 colors

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

| {{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}}

|

|-

! [[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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| {{n/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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| {{n/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}}

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| {{no}}?

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[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}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{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}}

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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}}

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| {{n/a}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

! [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]]

| None and lossless ([[gzip]])

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

| 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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| {{n/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}}

| {{yes}}

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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)

| {{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|Trans-parency]] || [[Metadata|Meta-]]

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&shy;able

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

! [[CMYK_color_model|CMYK]]

|}