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superseded by Jpeg XL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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