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==General==

Ownership of the format and related information.

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

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| .ai

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

| style="max-width:100px;" | Adobe Illustrator

| {{No}}

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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]]

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

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

| application/coreldraw

| style="max-width:100px;" | CorelDRAW

| {{noNo}}

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! [[Chasys Draw IES|CD5]]

| Chasys Draw IES Image

| John Paul Chacha

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| .xamlcd5

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

| {{No}}

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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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| .dng

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| 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>

| {{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

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

| {{No}}

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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}}

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! [[FITS]]

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| .flif, .flf

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| style="max-width:100px;" | General-purpose,

superseded by Jpeg XL

| {{Yes}}

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![[Gerber Format]]

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

|[[Ucamco]]

|Printable ASCII

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| .gif, .gfa, .giff

| image/gif

| General purpose, obsolete,popular nowfor onlysmall used foranimated animationsimages

| {{Yes}}

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

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

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

| JPEG

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| style="max-width:100px;" |General purpose

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| .jxl

| image/jxl

| style="max-width:100px;" | General-purpose, lossless [[JPEG]] transcoding.

| {{Yes}}

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| style="max-width:100px;" | General purpose

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| .wdp, .hdp, .jxr

| image/vnd.ms-photo

| style="max-width:100px;" | General purpose

| {{partial|royalty-free}}

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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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| {{Yes}}

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! [[TaggedTag Image File Format|TIFF]]

| TaggedTag Image File Format

| [[Adobe Systems]]

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| 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}}

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! [[XAML]]

| Extensible Application Markup Language

| [[Microsoft]]

| [[XML]]

| .xaml

| application/xaml+xml

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

| {{dunno}}

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! [[Xar (graphics)|XAR]]

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! [[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

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==Technical details==

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{| class="sortable sort-under wikitable sticky-header" 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]] || Maximum<br/>[[Color depth]]

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

[[Color depth]]

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

! [[Indexed color]] || [[Transparency in graphic files|Trans-]]

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

[[Transparency in graphic files|parency]]

! {{verth|Multi-page}} || {{verth|[[Animation|Anima-tion]]}} || {{verth|Layers}} || {{verth|[[Color management|Color manage-ment]]}} || Extend&shy;-{{verth|Extendable}}

! [[Metadata|Meta-]]

[[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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| {{n/a}}

| {{no}}

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! [[AVIF]]

| [[AV1]] [[Lossy compression|Lossy]] and [[Lossless compression|lossless]] ([[AV1]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 12 bpc

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yesno}}

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! [[BMP file format|BMP]]

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

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 16 bpc

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| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yesno}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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! [[Better Portable Graphics|BPG]]

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

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 14 bpc

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| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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! [[Chasys Draw IES|CD5]]

| Lossless, (ACSC)

| {{yes|Both}}

| 16 bpc

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

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! [[CorelDRAW|CDR]]

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| {{n/a}}

| {{no}}

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! [[Cartesian Perceptual Compression|CPC]]

| Lossy (CPC)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 1

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| {{yes}}, via embedded dictionary

| {{no}}

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! [[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}}

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! [[OpenEXR|EXR]]

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

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 32 bpc

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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! [[Free Lossless Image Format|FLIF]]

| Lossless, (MANIAC entropy coding)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 16 bpc

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| {{yes}}, via chunks

| {{yes}}

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! [[GIF]]

| Lossless ([[Lempel–Ziv–Welch|LZW]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 255 colors

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| {{no}}

| {{yes}} (GIF89a)

| {{n/ano}}

| {{no}}

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

| Lossy and lossless (bi-orthogonal transform)

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 32 bpc

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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! [[ILBM]]

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

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 8 bpc

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

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! [[JPEG]]

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

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 8 bpc

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| {{no}}

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

| {{yes}}

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! [[JPEG 2000]]

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

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 1638 bpc

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{n/a}}

| {{no}}

| Yes

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! [[JPEG XL]]

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| {{partial|Raster}}

| 32 bpc

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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! [[OpenRaster|ORA]]

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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! [[PAM graphics format|PAM]]

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

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! [[PCX]]

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

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 8 bpc

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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! [[Progressive Graphics File|PGF]]

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| {{n/a}}

| {{no}}

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! [[PICT]]

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

| {{yes|Both}}

| 8 bpc

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| {{no}}?

| {{no}}

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! [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]]

| Lossless and ([[deflateDeflate]])

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 16 bpc

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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

| {{yesno}}

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! [[Portable pixmap|PPM]]

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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! [[Adobe Photoshop|PSD and PSB]]

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

| {{yes|Both}}

| 32 bpc

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| {{no}}?

| {{yes}}

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! [[Corel Paint Shop Pro|PSP]]

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| {{n/a}}

| {{no}}

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! [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]]

| None and lossless ([[gzip]])

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

| 8 bpc

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

| {{n/a}}

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! [[Truevision TGA|TGA]]

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

| {{partial|Raster}}

| 832 bpc

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{n/a}}

| {{no}}

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! [[TaggedTag Image File Format|TIFF]]

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

| {{yes|Both}}

| 816 bpc

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}, via tags

| {{yes}}, TIFF float

| {{yes}}

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! [[WebP]]

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| {{partial|Raster}}

| 8 bpc

| {{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}}

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! [[XAML]]

| None

| {{partial|Vector}}

| 16 bpc

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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! style="width: 7em;"| Format || [[Compression algorithm]] || [[raster graphics|Raster]]/<br />[[Vector graphics|vector]] || Maximum

[[Color depth|Color]]

[[Color depth|depth]]

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&shy;able

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

! [[CMYK_color_model|CMYK]]

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