Standardized means of organizing and storing digital images
This article is about digital image formats used to store photographic and other images. For disk-image file formats, see Disk image. For digital file formats in general, see File format. For introductory information on Wikipedia's use of images, see Wikipedia:Images.
"Image format" redirects here. For the camera sensor format, see Image sensor format.
An image file format is a file format for a digital image. There are many formats that can be used, such as JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Most formats up until 2022 were for storing 2D images, not 3D ones. The data stored in an image file format may be compressed or uncompressed. If the data is compressed, it may be done so using lossy compression or lossless compression. For graphic design applications, vector formats are often used. Some image file formats support transparency.
Raster formats are for 2D images. A 3D image can be represented within a 2D format, as in a stereogram or autostereogram, but this 3D image will not be a true light field, and thereby may cause the vergence-accommodation conflict.
Image files are composed of digital data in one of these formats so that the data can be displayed on a digital (computer) display or printed out using a printer. A common method for displaying digital image information has historically been rasterization.
Efficiency ImageFileFormat (HEIF) is a container format for storing individual digital images and image sequences. The standard covers multimedia files that...
The BMP fileformat or bitmap, is a raster graphics imagefileformat used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device (such as...
ART is a proprietary imagefileformat used mostly by the America Online (AOL) service and client software. The ART format (file extension ".art") holds...
photography, the Camera ImageFileFormat (CIFF) fileformat is a raw imageformat designed by Canon, and also used as a container format to store metadata...
The Magick ImageFileFormat, abbreviated MIFF, is an imageformat used by ImageMagick. It may be used to store bitmap images platform-independently. A...
Exchangeable imagefileformat (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and...
The JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) is an imagefileformat standard published as ITU-T Recommendation T.871 and ISO/IEC 10918-5. It defines supplementary...
A camera raw imagefile contains unprocessed or minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, a motion picture film scanner...
list of fileformats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the fileformat's name...
bitmapped images using lossless data compression. Other fileformats, however, are designed for storage of several different types of data: the Ogg format can...
The Windows ImagingFormat (WIM) is a file-based disk imageformat. It was developed by Microsoft to help deploy Windows Vista and subsequent versions...
imagefileformats designed to be easily exchanged between platforms. They are also sometimes referred to collectively as the portable anymap format (PNM)...
any of several imagefileformats. Some digital cameras give access to almost all the data captured by the camera, using a raw imageformat. The Universal...
raster-graphics fileformat that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)—unofficially...
different disk imagefile by means of conversion. Software distributed on bootable discs is often available for download in ISO imageformat. And like any...
Interchange FileFormat (AIFF) is a big-endian audio fileformat developed from IFF. The TIFF imagefileformat is not related to IFF. An IFF file is built...
comparison of imagefileformats (graphics fileformats). This comparison primarily features fileformats for 2D images. Ownership of the format and related...
Layered ImageFileFormat (LIFF) is a fileformat used in the Openlab suite for microscope image processing. It is a proprietary format, but has an open...
contains a Gerber file for each image layer (copper layers, solder mask, legend or silk...). Gerber is also the standard image input format for all bare board...
and the New Disk ImageFormat (NDIF) from Mac OS 9. An Apple disk imagefile's name usually has ".dmg" as its extension. A disk image is a compressed copy...
is used for images with multiple bits per pixel. A bitmap is a type of memory organization or imagefileformat used to store digital images. The term bitmap...
A GIS fileformat is a standard for encoding geographical information into a computer file, as a specialized type of fileformat for use in geographic...
The ISO base media fileformat (ISOBMFF) is a container fileformat that defines a general structure for files that contain time-based multimedia data...
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