Comparison of graphics file formats: Difference between revisions

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| .ai
| application/illustrator,<br />application/postscript
| 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
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| Used by [[Microsoft Windows]]
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| .icns
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| Used by [[macOS]]
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| .avif
| image/avif
| General purpose
| [[GIMP]], [[Google Chrome]], [[Mozilla Firefox]], [[WebKit]]
| {{Yes|No}}
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| .bpg
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| 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}}
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| .cdr, .ccx, .cdt, .cmx
| application/coreldraw
| style="max-width:100px;" | CorelDRAW files are editable using programs that support the format, such as CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, etc.
| {{No|Yes}}
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| .flif, .flf
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| style="max-width:100px;" | General-purpose lossless image compression, superior compression.
superseded by Jpeg XL
| {{Yes|No}}
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| .gif, .gfa, .giff
| image/gif
| General purpose, obsolete, now only used for animations
| Supported by most web browsers. Supports transparency and animation.
| Expired
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| .heif, .heic
| image/heif, image/heic,<br>image/heic-sequence,<br>image/heif-sequence
|General purpose
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|{{No|Yes}}
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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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| .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe<br />(containers:<br />.jif, .jfif, .jfi)
| image/jpeg
| General purpose
| [[Photograph]]ic images. Supported by most web browsers.
| Expired<br>see also [[Forgent#JPEG]]
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| .jp2, .j2c, .jpc,<br />.j2k, .jpx
| image/jp2
| General purpose
| [[Wavelet]] lossy and lossless format for [[photograph]]ic images.
| Yes<br>no licence costs for part 1
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| style="max-width:100px;" |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}}
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| style="max-width:100px;" | 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
| style="max-width:100px;" | TIFF-likeGeneral container format with [[High dynamic range imaging|HDR]] encoding for photographic imagespurpose
| Yes (royalty-free)
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| .miff
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| Supported by [[ImageMagick]]
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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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| .psp, .tub,<br />.pspimage
| image/x-psp
| Supported by [[Paint Shop Pro]], [[GIMP]]
| {{dunno}}
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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}}
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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?
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| .webp
| image/webp
| General purpose
| Provides an alternative to JPEG, PNG and GIF with superior compression
| Yes (royalty-free)
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| .xaml
| application/xaml+xml
| Used by [[Windows Presentation Foundation]] and [[Microsoft Silverlight]].
| {{dunno}}
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| .xar
| application/vnd.xara
| Used by [[Xara Photo & Graphic Designer]]
| {{Yes|No}}
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| .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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