| .BMP |
[IN / OUT] |
Windows or OS/2 Bitmap |
| .RLE |
[IN / OUT] |
Bitmap with run-length encoding (RLE4/RLE8 in, RLE8 out) |
| .ICO |
[IN / OUT] |
Windows Icon |
| .WMF |
[IN ] |
Windows Metafile (Vector Based Image) |
| .APM |
[IN] |
Aldus Placeable Metafile - A popular variation of WMF (Vector Based Image) |
| .EMF |
[IN / OUT] |
Enhanced Metafile (Vector Based Image) |
.JPEG
.JPG
.JPE |
[IN / OUT] |
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JFIF Compliant) - Popular high color bitmap format used on the internet |
| .JP2 |
[IN / OUT] |
JPEG 2000 File Format - The new version of JPEG |
.J2K
.J2C |
[IN / OUT] |
JPEG 2000 codestream - The new version of JPEG |
| .JNG |
[IN] |
JPEG Network Graphics. Cousin of MNG, but uses JPEG compression |
| .GIF |
[IN / OUT] |
Graphics Interchange Format - Popular "lossless", 256 color image format (includes support for LZW compressed GIF files) |
| .PNG |
[IN / OUT] |
Portable Network Graphics - "Lossless" high color image format. The answer to GIF when UNISYS became intrusive about their LZW compression algorithm |
| .MNG |
[IN] |
Multiple Network Graphics - PNG's answer to animated GIF. |
| .PSD |
[IN] |
Adobe Photoshop Document |
.TIFF
.TIF |
[IN / OUT] |
Tag Image File Format - A widely used format for storing image data (includes support for LZW compressed TIFF files) |
.TARGA
.TGA |
[IN / OUT] |
Tagged Image File Format - Popular bitmap format on the Amiga and other computers |
| .PCD |
[IN] |
Kodak PhotoCD. The PhotoCD format was developed by Kodak as an alternative to analog photography. Natively supported by most DVD players and CD-I. |
| .PCX |
[IN] |
Zsoft Paintbrush |
.KOALA
.KOA |
[IN] |
KOALA files were popular on the commodore 64. |
| .RAS |
[IN] |
Sun Raster File - Popular among Solaris computers |
| .IFF |
[IN] |
Interchanged File Format - Designed by Electronic Arts as an Amiga image storage format |
| .LBM |
[IN] |
LBM was created for the Deluxe Paint package, and is essentially the same as IFF. |
| .CUT |
[IN] |
Dr.Halo bitmap - Pretty popular some years ago |
| .XBM |
[IN] |
X11 Bitmap Format |
| .XPM |
[IN] |
X11 Pixmap Format |
| .WBMP |
[IN / OUT] |
Wireless Bitmap - A bitmap type used by cell phones, etc. Monochrome (B&W) Only. |
| .PBM |
[IN / OUT] |
Portable Bitmap - Black & white ASCII based bitmap format |
| .PGM |
[IN / OUT] |
Portable Greymap - Grayscale ASCII based bitmap format |
| .PPM |
[IN / OUT] |
Portable Pixmap - High color ASCII based bitmap format |
| .PBMRAW |
[IN / OUT] |
(Binary version of .PBM) |
| .PGMRAW |
[IN / OUT] |
(Binary version of .PGM) |
| .PPMRAW |
[IN / OUT] |
(Binary version of .PPM) |
| .DDS |
[IN] |
DirectX DirectDraw Surface |
| .HDR |
[IN / OUT] |
High Dynamic Range |
| .G3 |
[IN] |
Raw fax format CCITT G.3 |
| .SGI |
[IN] |
Silicon Graphics Image |
| .EXR |
[IN / OUT] |
ILM OpenEXR |
| .PFM |
[IN / OUT] |
Portable Floatmap |
.PICT
.PIC
.PCT |
[IN] |
Macintosh PICT |
| .* |
[IN] |
RAW camera image (many extensions) |
