Image File Formats List

acr (ACR-NEMA medical image file)
Extensions: acr

adex (ADEX Corp. image file)
Extensions: adex

art (First Publisher Clip Art file)
Extensions: art

ascii (ASCII text characters file)
Extensions: ascii, txt

atk (Andrew Toolkit Raster Object file)
Extensions: atk

bbnbg (BBN BitGraph terminal Display Pixel Data (DPD) sequence)
Extensions: bbnbg

biorad (Biorad confocal file)
Extensions: biorad

bmp (Microsoft Windows bitmap image file)
Extensions: bmp, dib, vga, bga, rle, rl4, rl8

bob (BOB Image file)
Extensions: bob

brush (Xerox Doodle Brush file)
Extensions: brush

byu (Movie BYU file)
Extensions: byu, pic

c64 (Commodore 64 image file)
Extensions: c64

cals (US Gov. CALS file)
Extensions: cals

ccrf (Calcomp CCRF file)
Extensions: ccrf

cdi (Phillips CD-I IFF file)
Extensions: cdi, iff

cel (Lumena CEL file)
Extensions: cel

cgm (Computer Graphics Metafile)
Extensions: cgm

cmuwm (CMU Window Manager bitmap file)
Extensions: cmuwm, cmu

core (Core Software Tech CORE IDC file)
Extensions: core, idc

cube (Cubicomp/Vertigo image file)
Extensions: cube, cubi

cut (Dr. Halo CUT file)
Extensions: cut

cur (Microsoft Windows cursor image file)
Extensions: cur

dcs (Quark Desktop Color Separation EPS file)
Extensions: dcs, eps

ddif (DEC DDIF file)
Extensions: ddif

dpx (Cineon DPX file)
Extensions: dpx

dxb (AutoCAD database file)
Extensions: dxb, acad

earth (Earth Resources Mapper file)
Extensions:

eclipse (Alias Eclipse file)
Extensions:

eidi (Electric Image EIDI file)
Extensions: eidi

eps (Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file)
Extensions: eps, epi, epsf

epsi (Encapsulated PostScript style preview file)
Extensions: epsi

epson (Epson printer graphics file)
Extensions: epson

face (UNIX Faceserver image file)
Extensions: face

fits (Flexible Image Transport System file)
Extensions: fits

fop (Freedom of Press file)
Extensions: fop

fs (Usenix FaceSaver file)
Extensions: fs

g3 (Group 3 FAX file)
Extensions: g3, fax

gem (GEM bitmap file)
Extensions: gem, img

gif (CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format file)
Extensions: gif, giff

go (GraphOn graphics file)
Extensions: go

goes (NOAA satellite data file)
Extensions: goes

gould (Gould scanner file)
Extensions: gould

grib (FM 92-VIII Ext. GRIdded Binary file)
Extensions: grib

hdf (Hierarchical Data File)
Extensions: hdf, df, ncsa

hips (HIPS file)
Extensions: hips

hitachi (Hitachi raster file)
Extensions:

iax (Image Access eXecutive file)
Extensions: iax

icc (Kodak ICC printer file)
Extensions: icc

ico (Microsoft Windows icon image file)
Extensions: ico

icon (Sun Icon and Cursor file)
Extensions: icon, cursor, pr

icr (NCSA Telnet Interactive Color Raster graphic file)
Extensions: icr

iff (Sun TAAC Image File Format)
Extensions: iff, vff, suniff, taac

ilbm (Amiga Interchange File Format [IFF] InterLeaved BitMap [ILBM] file)
Extensions: ilbm, iff

img (Img-whatnot file)
Extensions: img

jpeg (Joint Photographic Experts Group compressed file)
Extensions: jpeg, jpg, jfif

lan (Erdas file)
Extensions: lan

landsat (EOSAT's Landsat Thematic Mapper data file)
Extensions: landsat, tm, ltm

lispm (Lisp Machine file)
Extensions: lispm

lj (HP LaserJet graphics file)
Extensions: lj

mgr (MGR bitmap file)
Extensions: mgr

miff (Magick image file format)
Extensions: miff

mitsu (Mitsubishi S340-10 color sublimation printer file)
Extensions: mitsu

mpnt (Apple Macintosh MacPaint file)
Extensions: mpnt, macp, pntg, mac, paint

msp (Microsoft Paint image file)
Extensions: msp

mtv (MTV Raytracer file)
Extensions: mtv

neo (Atari NeoChrome image file)
Extensions: neo

news (NeWS image file)
Extensions: news

nitf (National Image Transmission Format file)
Extensions: nitf

omf (OMF Interchange file)
Extensions: omf

pcc (PCC file)
Extensions: pcc

pcd (Photo-CD file)
Extensions: pcd

pcp (PCP file)
Extensions: pcp

pcx (ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file)
Extensions: pcx, pcc

pdf (Adobe Acrobat PDF file)
Extensions: pdf

pds (NASA planetary image file)
Extensions: pds

photoshop (Adobe PhotoShop file)
Extensions: photoshop

pi1 (Atari Degas file)
Extensions: pi1, pi3

pic (Radiance image file)
Extensions: pic

picio (PIXAR picture file)
Extensions: picio, pic, pixar

pics (Macintosh PICS file)
Extensions: pics

pict (Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file)
Extensions: pict, pict2

pictor (PC Paint image file)
Extensions: pictor

pix (Alias image file)
Extensions: pix, alias

pixelpaint (PixelPaint Professional image file)
Extensions: pixelpaint

pj (HP PaintJet or PaintJet XL PCL graphics file)
Extensions: pj, pjxl, pcl

pk (Packed format font file)
Extensions: pk, tfm

plot (Unix plot(5) file)
Extensions: plot

pnm (PBM Portable aNy Map file)
Extensions: pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, pbmplus

ps (Adobe PostScript file)
Extensions: ps, ps2, postscript, psid

ptx (Printronix graphics file)
Extensions: ptx

puzz (X11 Puzzle file)
Extensions: puzz

q0 (Japanese Q0 image file)
Extensions: Q0

qdv (Random Dot QDV file)
Extensions: qdv

qrt (QRT Ray Tracer file)
Extensions: qrt

ras (Sun Rasterfile)
Extensions: ras, rast, sun, sr, scr

rgb (SGI RGB image file)
Extensions: rgb, iris, sgi

riff (Letraset image file)
Extensions: riff

rix (RIX Softworks Paint Tool ColoRIX file)
Extensions: rix

rla (Wavefront raster image file)
Extensions: rla, rlb

rle (Utah Run length encoded image file)
Extensions: rle, urt

scan (Thunderscan image file)
Extensions: scan

scitex (Scitex Continuous Tone (CT2T) image file)
Extensions: scitex

scodl (Agfa slide file)
Extensions: scodl

sir (Solitaire file)
Extensions: sir

six (DEC LN03+ Sixel file)
Extensions: six, sixel, ln03

sld (AutoCAD slide file)
Extensions: sld

softimage (SOFTIMAGE image file)
Extensions: pic

spc (Atari compressed Spectrum file)
Extensions: spc, spu

spot (SPOT satellite image file)
Extensions: spot

sprite (RiscOS Archimedes Sprite file)
Extensions: none

synu (SDSC Synu image file)
Extensions: synu

tdi (TDI image file)
Extensions: tdi

tga (Truevision Targa image file)
Extensions: tga, vda, ivb, targa

tiff (Tagged-Image File Format)
Extensions: tiff, tif

uil (Motif UIL icon file)
Extensions: uil

vdi (Digital Research GEM VDI file)
Extensions: gem, vdi

vi (Jovian Logic Video Capture file)
Extensions: vi

vicar (PDS/VICAR file)
Extensions: vicar, pds

viff (Khoros Visualization image file)
Extensions: viff, xv

vitec (VITec tiled image file)
Extensions:

vivid (Vivid Raytracer image file)
Extensions:

vort (VORT raytracer image file)
Extensions: vort

whip (WHIP file)
Extensions: whip

wpg (WordPerfect Graphics file)
Extensions: wpg

x (AVS X image file)
Extensions: x, avs, mbfx, mbfavs

xbm (X11 bitmap file)
Extensions: xbm, bm

xim (X11 Xim Toolkit file)
Extensions: xim

xos (Xaos Tools image file)
Extensions: xos

xpm (X11 pixmap file)
Extensions: xpm

xwd (X Window System window dump image file)
Extensions: xwd, x11

ybm (Face file)
Extensions: ybm

yuv (Abekas YUV file)
Extensions: yuv

yuv12c (YUV12C M-Motion Frame Buffer file)
Extensions: vid

yuv3 (CCIR 601 file)
Extensions: yuv3, yuv

yuvsplit (subsampled raw YUV files)
Extensions: Y, U, V

zeiss (Zeiss CSLM file)
Extensions: zeiss, cslm

zinc (Zinc Interface Library icon file)
Extensions: zinc