Comparison of graphics file formats

This is a comparison of image file formats.

General

Ownership of the format and related information.

FormatFull nameOwnerBased onFile extensionMIME typeApplicationPatented
Abc Advanced Bitonal Compression LEAD Technologies .abc Bitonal document and check images.[1] 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.
AI Adobe Illustrator Document Adobe Systems .ai application/illustrator, application/postscript Adobe Illustrator files are editable using programs that support the format, such as Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDRAW, etc. Yes
Alias Pix image .pix, .matte, .mask,
.alpha, .als
Supported by GIMP
AMI .ami Supported by Amica Paint
ANI ANI file format Microsoft RIFF .ani Used by Microsoft Windows
ANIM Electronic Arts and Commodore Amiga IFF .iff, .anim video/x-anim
APNG Animated Portable Network Graphics Mozilla PNG .png image/png 1.9 and Opera No
Apple Icon Image Apple Inc. .icns Used by macOS
APX .apx Supported by Ebuyer Photo Paint
ART AOL .art
ART PFS: 1st Publisher clip art .art
ARTB Artboard file format Mapdiva, LLC .artb Vector image format; Artboard drawing files are editable using programs that support the format, such as Artboard and Ortelius
ASCII art .txt, .ansi, .text 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,
.vox
application/x-authorware-bin
AutoCAD DXF Drawing Interchange Format Autodesk .dxf image/vnd.dxf
AWD .awd image/awd Used by PhotoPhilia
ARW Sony Alpha RAW Sony TIFF .arw
BAY Casio RAW Casio .bay
BigTIFF TIFF .btf, .tiff, .tif image/tiff
BMP raw-data unencoded or encoded bitmap simple colour image format, far older than Microsoft; some .bmp encoding formats developed/owned by Microsoft .bmp, .dib, .rle,
.2bp (2bpp)
image/x-bmp Used by many 2D applications. No
bmp compressor Bit Map Compressor .hpc
BLEND resource archive (3D meshes, textures, auxiliary data) .blend native data package format of Blender
BPG Better Portable Graphics Fabrice Bellard HEVC .bpg Suggestion to replace JPEG, JavaScript decoder available[2] Yes
BRK Brooktrout Fax .brk
BSAVE BSAVE Image .BSV Used by IBM PC.
CAM Casio CAM Casio JPEG .cam
CADRG Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics .cadrg
CAL CALS raster file format .cal, .cals, .ras, .dcl
Capture One RAW Phase One .cap
CIFF Camera Image File Format Canon .crw, .ciff
CR2 Canon RAW 2 Canon TIFF .cr2
CDR CorelDRAW Document Corel Corporation .cdr, .ccx, .cdt, .cmx application/coreldraw CorelDRAW files are editable using programs that support the format, such as CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, etc. Yes
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile .cgm image/cgm CGM files are editable using programs that support the format, such as IBM Lotus Freelance Graphics, Inkscape, etc.
CIN Cineon .cin image/cineon
Corel Paint Shop Pro Pattern .pat Supported by Corel Paint Shop Pro
CPC Cartesian Perceptual Compression Cartesian Products, Inc. .cpc, .cpi image/cpi Highly compressed raster imaging format. 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
DCS Kodak DCS Pro RAW Kodak .dcs
DCR Digital Camera Raw Kodak TIFF .dcr
DDS DirectDraw Surface Microsoft .dds
Degas Design & Entertainment Graphic Arts System Integral Solutions .pi1, .pi2, .pi3,
.pc1, .pc2, .pc3
An application on Atari ST
DNG Digital Negative Adobe Systems Compatible with ISO 12234-2, TIFF/EP[3] .dng A raw image format suitable as an archival format and as the native raw format of digital cameras[4] No: no known intellectual property encumbrances or license requirements[5]
DIA Dia Drawing XML .dia Used by Dia
DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine National Electrical Manufacturers Association .dcm, .dicom application/dicom[6] Numerous biomedical imaging applications[6] (e.g. OsiriX, XMedCon), some general bitmap graphics applications (e.g. GIMP, Photoshop)
DjVu DjVu AT&T Research .djvu, .djv image/vnd.djvu
Doodle .doo An application on Atari ST
DPX Digital Picture eXchange file format .dpx image/dpx
DRF Kodak Pro Back RAW Kodak .drf
Dr. Halo .cut
Encapsulated PostScript page description/scripting language (see PostScript) Adobe .epi, .eps, .eps2,
.eps3, .epsf, .epsi,
.ept
application/postscript printing/publishing industry standard format
ECW Enhanced Compressed Wavelet ERDAS .ecw Wavelet image format used primarily with geo-referenced aerial and satellite imagery Yes
EDG EDGE2 Original Format TAKABO .edg Used by EDGE2
EGI Exclusive Graphics Format .egi
EMF Enhanced Metafile Format Microsoft .emf, .emz Microsoft Office
EMF+ Enhanced Metafile Format Plus Extensions Microsoft .emf, .emz
ERF EPSON RAW EPSON TIFF .erf
ERI Entis Rasterized Image format .eri
Exif Exchangeable Image File Format .exif
EVA Extended Vector Animation Sharp Corporation .eva application/x-eva
EXR OpenEXR ILM .exr image/exr Used in film effects for 3d rendering and hdr images. ?
Farbfeld Laslo Hunhold .ff Very simple lossless bitmap format used for image processing. No
FIF Fractal Image Format .fif
FIG FIG format .fig application/x-xfig Supported by Xfig
FITS Flexible Image Transport System .fit, .fits Scientific (esp. astronomical) data acquisition
FLA Flash Source File .fla
FLIC Autodesk .fli, .flc, .flx, .flh, .flt Supported by GIMP
FLIF Free Lossless Image Format .flif, .flf General-purpose lossless image compression, superior compression. No
Kivio Document .flw Supported by Kivio
FPX FlashPix (1.0.2) .fpx image/vnd.fpx
FreeHand Adobe Systems .fh4, .fh5, .fh7,
.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 The Gerber Format Specification[7] Ucamco Printable ASCII .gbr application/vnd.gerber Printed Circuit Board or PCB software No
GIF Graphics Interchange Format CompuServe,
Unisys (compression algorithm)
.gif, .gfa, .giff image/gif Supported by most web browsers. Supports transparency and animation. Expired
GIMP brush The GIMP Team .gbr Supported by GIMP
GIMP compressed XJT image The GIMP Team JPEG, tar .xjt,
.xjtgz (compressed),
.xjtbz2 (compressed)
None. Lossy format, not 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 High Efficiency Image Format Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) .heif, .heic image/heif, image/heic, image/heic-sequence, image/heif-sequence Yes
HDRi TIFF .tif, .tiff image/tiff
HG Hyper Graphic Press .hg Supported by some old Japanese applications.
ICER NASA Mars Rovers
IIQ RAW Intelligent Image Quality RAW Phase One .iiq
IMA .ima .ima team .ima Format for photographic images with HDR encoding. No
IMG (GEM Paint) .img Supported by GEM Paint
IMG (ERDAS IMAGINE) ERDAS IMAGINE ERDAS Hierarchical File Architecture (HFA) .img Image format used primarily with geo-referenced imagery, thematic grid data, and elevation grid data. Yes
im4 Masahide Hirabayashi .im4
Inkscape SVG The Inkscape Team SVG .svg, .svgz image/svg+xml Used by Inkscape
ICO ICO file format Microsoft .ico, .cur image/vnd.Microsoft.icon, image/x-icon Used by Microsoft Windows and web browsers as favicon
ICS Image Cytometry Standard .ics, .ids
IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification .igs image/iges CAD/CAM interoperability No
ILBM InterLeaved BitMap Electronic Arts and Commodore Amiga IFF .iff, .ilbm, .lbm image/x-ilbm Planar graphics format designed for Amiga graphics hardware. No
IPTC/NAA IPTC/NAA TIFF
JBIG Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group .jbig, .bie, .jbg
JBIG2 Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group
JNG JPEG Network Graphics .jng image/x-jng No
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group Joint Photographic Experts Group .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe
(containers:
.jif, .jfif, .jfi)
image/jpeg Photographic images. Supported by most web browsers. Expired (see also Forgent#JPEG)
JPEG 2000 Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000 Joint Photographic Experts Group .jp2, .j2c, .jpc,
.j2k, .jpx
image/jp2 Photographic images, eventual replacement for JPEG. Yes (no licence costs for part 1)
JPEG-LS Joint Photographic Experts Group .jls
JPEG-HDR Dolby Laboratories/BrightSide Technologies JPEG HDR format based on RGBE floating-point encoding and backward-compatible extensions to JFIF format; included in JPEG XT Part 2.
JPEG XT Joint Photographic Experts Group Backwards-compatible extension of the JPEG format for high bit depth and floating point HDR encoding of lossy and lossless images
JPEG XR / HD Photo JPEG XR / HD Photo Microsoft .wdp, .hdp, .jxr image/vnd.ms-photo TIFF-like container format with HDR encoding for photographic images Yes (royalty-free)
J6I RICOH JPEG .j6i Used by RICOH DC-1/2
KDC Kodak DC40/DC50 RAW Kodak TIFF .kdc
KOA .koa,
.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
K25 Kodak DC25 RAW Kodak TIFF .k25
Leaf Mosaic RAW TIFF .mos
LightStream Picture .lsp
Logluv TIFF Greg Ward TIFF Supported by Libtiff
Mac Paint .pnt, .mac
MDC Minolta RD175 Format Minolta .mdc
MET OS/2 Metafile Format .met Supported by SAS/GRAPH
MNG Multiple-image Network Graphics PNG .mng video/x-mng No
MO:DCA MO:DCA IBM .mda, .ica, .mmr,
.afp
image IBM's Content Manager and Image Plus Yes
MSP Microsoft Paint Microsoft .msp
MYD Myd format .myd
MYV Myv vector format .myv
NEF Nikon RAW Nikon 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
MIFF Magick image file format ImageMagick Studio .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
MRW Minolta RAW Minolta .mrw
NSK-TIFF NSK-TIFF Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (日本新聞協会) TIFF
OAZ OAZ Fax Oaz Communications .oaz Used by NetFax Manager
ODG OpenDocument drawing .odg
ORA OpenRaster freedesktop.org OpenDocument/XML .ora DrawPile, GIMP, Krita, MyPaint, Nathive, Pinta No
ORF Olympus RAW Olympus TIFF .orf
ORTL Ortelius file format Mapdiva, LLC .ortl Vector image/map format; used by Ortelius
PAM portable arbitrary map file format .pam image/x-portable-arbitrarymap No
Panasonic RAW Panasonic TIFF .raw, .rw2
PCIF Polyomino Compressed Image Format .pcf
PhaseOne P25/P30/P45 RAW Phase One .tif, .tiff
PictureGear Pocket Image .prc
PBM Portable Bitmap File Format ASCII .pbm image/x-portable-bitmap No
PCD Kodak ImagePac Photo CD Kodak .pcd image/jpcd
PCF Pixel Coordination Format .pcf image/pcf
PCX ZSoft PC Paintbrush File ZSoft Corporation .pcx, .pcc, .dcx image/x-pcx 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. ?
PDF Portable Document Format Adobe Systems .pdf, .epdf application/pdf
PDN Paint.NET Image dotPDN LLC .pdn Preferred and supported by Paint.NET
PEF PENTAX RAW PENTAX TIFF .pef
PGF Progressive Graphics File xeraina GmbH .pgf Photographic images, eventual replacement for JPEG. No
PGM Portable Graymap File Format ASCII .pgm image/x-portable-graymap No
PGML Precision Graphics Markup Language Adobe Systems, IBM, Netscape, Sun Microsystems No
Photochrome .pcs
PNM Portable Anymap File Format ASCII .pnm image/x-portable-anymap 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 Macintosh PICT Format Apple Inc. .pict, .pic, .pct,
.pct1, .pct2
image/pict Metafile for Classic Mac OS, not meant for print publishing. Likely expired
PICtor John Bridges, Doug Wolfgram .pic 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. ?
PMP Sony JPEG .pmp Used by Sony Cyber-Shot
PNG Portable Network Graphics World Wide Web Consortium .png image/png W3C endorsed replacement for GIF. Supported by most web browsers. No
PostScript page description/scripting language, levels 1–3 Adobe .ps, .ps2, .ps3 printing/publishing industry standard format
PPM Portable Pixmap File Format ASCII .ppm image/x-portable-pixmap Very easy to understand. Programs to analyze and write to this format are easily written. No
PSD Photoshop Document Adobe Systems .psd, .psb, .pdb,
.pdd
image/vnd.adobe.photoshop[8] Used mainly for storing image manipulation & editing data. Yes
PSP Paint Shop Pro Document Corel Corporation .psp, .tub,
.pspimage
image/x-psp Supported by Paint Shop Pro, GIMP ?
PSX TIM .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
RAD Gregory Ward Larson .rad Radiance
RAF Fujifilm RAW Fujifilm .raf
RGB image/colourmap data in RGB format .rgb
RGBA image/colourmap data in RGB format, with Alpha channel .rgba
RGBE Gregory Ward Larson .hdr image/vnd.radiance Radiance, most HDR imaging software
RHIF Rhapsoft Image Format Romain Piveteau SQLite .rhif LiveQuarz file format
R3D RED REDCODE RAW Red .r3d
SAI SYSTEMAX .sai Supported by 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 Unix/Linux and Windows
SGB Sun Microsystems .sgb Supported by StarOffice Graphics 2
SGI Silicon Graphics Image .sgi, .rgb, .rgba,
.bw, .int, .inta,
.icon
Shockwave Director Adobe Systems .dir, .dcr, .dxr, .fgd application/x-director Used by Adobe Shockwave.
SHAPE Dia Stencil SVG .shape Used by Dia.
SK .sk Supported by Skencil
SketchUp Format .skp, .skb Supported by SketchUp
SML Kivio stencil .sml Supported by Kivio
SRF Sony RAW File Sony TIFF .srf, .sr2
SUN Sun rasterfile Sun Microsystems .sun, .ras, .rs, .im1,
.im8, .im24, .im32
Supported by GIMP
STX SBIG CCD camera ST-x .stx, .st4, .st5,
.st6, .st7, .st8,
.st9
SView5 Graphics Andreas Kleinert .svg/.sgx Used by SView5-Library/SDK
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics World Wide Web Consortium XML .svg,
.svgz (compressed)
image/svg+xml Scriptable vector image format; supported by major web browsers, occasionally via plug-in. No
SWF Shockwave Flash Adobe Systems .swf application/x-shockwave-flash Supported by many web browsers via plug-in.
SXD OpenOffice.org 1.0 drawing format .sxd
TGA Truevision Targa Truevision Inc. .tga, .tpic image/tga Used by many 3D rendering applications and 3d videogames for storing textures. Yes?
TIFF Tagged Image File Format Adobe Systems .tiff, .tif image/tiff Document scanning and imaging format, also functions as a container. No
TIFF/EP Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography International Organization for Standardization TIFF .tiff, .tif
TIFF-FX Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended TIFF .tiff, .tif image/tiff-fx
Tiny Stuff David Mumper .tny, .tn1, .tn2, .tn3,
.tn4, .tn5, tn6
An application on Atari ST
TLG5 .tlg Used by KiriKiri
TLG6 .tlg Used by KiriKiri
UFO Ulead File for Objects .ufo
VML Vector Markup Language Microsoft XML .htm, .html application/vnd. openxmlformats-officedocument. vmlDrawing Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office No
WBMP Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format Open Mobile Alliance (formerly WAP Forum) .wbmp, .wbm, .wbp image/vnd.wap.wbmp Used in WAP-pages No
WebP WebP image format Google .webp image/webp Provides an alternative to JPEG, PNG and GIF with superior compression Yes (royalty-free)
WinFax Symantec .wfx, fxs, fxo
WMF Windows Metafile Format Microsoft .wmf, .wmz
WordPerfect Graphics File .wpg
XAML Extensible Application Markup Language Microsoft XML .xaml application/xaml+xml Used by Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight. ?
XAR Xar Xara Xar (graphics) .xar application/vnd.xara Used by Xara Photo & Graphic Designer No
XBM X BitMap, colour variant of original black-and-white bitmap (bmp) format .xbm, .bm,
.icon, .bitmap
image/x-xbitmap Used by many legacy Unix applications.
XCF XCF, name derived from eXperimental Computing Facility The GIMP Team .xcf,
.xcfbz2 (compressed),
.xcfgz (compressed)
application/x-gimp-image Used by GIMP
XPM X-Pixmap .xpm, .pm image/x-xpm Used by many legacy Unix applications.
X3F SIGMA RAW SIGMA .x3f
XWD xwud X11 window dumper/undumper screenshot image .xwd, .x11 Used by X Window System
XYZ RPG Maker image file ASCII .xyz RPG Maker No
YCbCr .ycbcr
YCbCrA .ycbcra
YUV .yuv
ZDT .zdt Used by TECH Win
FormatFull nameOwnerBased FormatFile extensionMIME typeApplicationPatented

Technical details

FormatCompression
algorithm
Raster/
vector
Color depthIndexed colorTransparencyMetadataInterlacingMulti-pageAnimation[9]LayersColor managementExtend­ableHDR format
AI Lossy and lossless Both 1, 8, 24, and 32 (possibly with multiple palettes) Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Un­known No
BMP None, RLE, JPEG, and PNG Raster 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, and 64 Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No No
BPG HEVC, Lossy and lossless Raster 8 to 14 bits per channel No Yes Yes No No Yes Un­known Yes Un­known Un­known
CDR Lossy and lossless Both 1, 8, 24,and 32 (multiple palettes) Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Un­known No
CPC CPC Raster 1 No No Yes No Yes No No No Yes, via embedded dictionary No
EPS None, LZW, Deflate, RLE, DCT Both Device specific No Yes Yes N/A Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
EXR None, RLE, ZIP, Piz, PXR24, and B44, B44A, DWAA, DWAB Raster 16–128 (floating-point) No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Farbfeld None Raster 64 (16-bits-per-channel) No Yes No No No No No No No No
FLIF Lossless, MANIAC entropy coding Raster 1 to 16 bits per channel Yes Yes Yes Yes, Adam∞ No Yes No Yes Yes, via chunks Yes, with suitable color profile
GIF LZW Raster Indexed (1bpc to 8bpc) and grayscale (8bpc) Yes Yes; 1bpp plane-only mask using color index Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes (GIF89a) No
HD Photo / JPEG XR Lossy and lossless bi-orthogonal transform Raster 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, and 128 (floating-point) No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
ILBM Optional run-length encoding Raster 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 64 EHB, 128, 256 (8-bit), 4,096 (HAM6 pseudo 12-bit), 4,096 pure 12-bit, 262, 144 (HAM8 pseudo 18-bit), and 24-bit Yes No Yes Yes No Yes,
Palette-shifting
No No Yes No
IMA Lossy and lossless original mutiresolution analysis transformation Raster 8-bit, 16-bit integer, 32-bit floating-point No Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes
JPEG Lossy (and partly lossless), DCT, RLE, and Huffman predictive nearest neighbor Raster 8-bit (greyscale), 12-bit, and 24-bit No No Yes Yes No No No Yes No No (see unofficial JPEG-HDR)
JPEG 2000 Lossy and lossless (DWT) Raster 8 and 16 (greyscale) with possibly color up to 48-bit No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Un­known No
KRA None Both grayscale, RGB, XYZ (8bpc, 16bpc, float16bpc, float32bpc), CMYK, L*a*b* and YCbCr (8bpc, 16bpc, float32bpc) No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ORA Lossless Both 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
PAM None Raster Up to 16 No Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes No
PCX None, RLE Raster 1, 2, 4, 8, 24 and 32 Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No No
PGF Lossy and lossless (DWT) Raster grayscale: 1, 8, 16, 31; RGB: 12, 16, 24, 32, and 48 Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Un­known No
PICT None, RLE, and QuickTime Both 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 Yes Yes Yes Un­known No No No Un­known No? No
PLD Optional ZIP, JPEG Both 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64 Un­known Yes Yes Un­known Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
PNG Lossless and deflate Raster bitmap (1bpc), indexed (8bpc), grayscale and RGB (8bpc, 16bpc) Yes Yes; indexed, grayscale and RGB Yes Yes, Adam7 algorithm No No (but see MNG and APNG) No Yes Yes, via chunks No, see discussion
PPM None Raster Up to 16 No No Yes No Yes No No No No No
PSD and PSB None and RLE Both bitmap (1bpc), duotone, indexed (8bpc), grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Lab and multichannel (8bpc, 16bpc, 32bpc) Yes Yes; indexed, grayscale, RGB, CMYK and Lab Yes N/A No Yes Yes Yes No? Yes
PSP None Both 1, 2, 8, 16, 24, 32, and 48 Yes Yes; 8b and 16b per-pixel alpha channel Yes No Un­known No Yes Un­known Un­known No
SVG None and lossless gzip Vector[10] RGB (8bpc) No Yes Yes N/A Yes (1.2 draft)[11] Yes (SMIL/SVG) Yes Yes[12] Yes, XML based N/A
TGA None, RLE, and other Raster 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 Yes Yes Yes No No No No No Un­known No
TIFF None, LZW, RLE, ZIP, and other Both 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 Yes (1–8 bit modes) Yes Yes Yes, for JPEG compression Yes No Yes Yes Yes, via tags Yes, TIFF float
WebP Lossy and lossless Raster YUV420P (12bpp), YUVA420P (20bpp) and RGB (8bpc) Internally in lossless mode, but not user-accessible[13][14] Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
XAML None Vector 32 and 64 No Yes Yes N/A Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
XCF None and lossless (gzip, bzip2 and xz) Both indexed (8bpc), grayscale and RGB (8bpc, 16bpc, float16bpc, 32bpc, float32bpc, float64bpc) Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
FormatCompression algorithmRaster/
vector
Color depthIndexed colorTransparencyMetadataInterlacingMulti-pageAnimationLayersColor managementExtend­ableHDR format

See also

References

  1. "ABC Image Compression SDK Technology - LEADTOOLS". www.leadtools.com.
  2. "BPG Image format". bellard.org.
  3. Adobe: DNG Specification
  4. Adobe: Introducing the Digital Negative Specification: Information for manufacturers
  5. Adobe Labs: CinemaDNG (last bullet point)
  6. RFC 3240
  7. The Gerber Format Specification, downloadable at http://www.ucamco.com
  8. "vnd.adobe.photoshop". Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  9. Animations are often encoded as video.
  10. Supports raster data embedding with the use of Base64
  11. "Multiple pages (SVG 1.2)". www.w3.org.
  12. "Removed: Color — SVG 2". www.w3.org.
  13. "Issue 437: allow palette extraction from indexed lossless images". WebP issue tracker. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  14. "Lossless Bitstream Specification, section Color Indexing Transform". WebP official reference at Google Developers. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
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