Technical Details
| Format | Compression algorithm |
Raster/ vector |
Color depth | Indexed color | Transparency | Metadata | Interlacing | Multi-page | Animation | Layers | Color management | Extendable | HDR format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGP | RLE | Raster | 32 | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| AI | Lossy and lossless | Both | 1, 8, 24, and 32 (possibly with multiple palettes) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No |
| BEF | Visual lossless and lossy compression based on JND metric | Raster | 32-bit floating point | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Not required | No | Yes |
| BMP | None, RLE, JPEG, and PNG | Raster | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 | Yes | Yes; 8b per-pixel alpha channel for ARGB | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 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 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| EXR | None, RLE, ZIP, Piz, PXR24, and B44 | Raster | 16–128 (floating-point) | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GIF | LZW | Raster | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 | Yes | Yes; 1b 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 |
| 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 | greyscale: 1, 8, 16, 31; color: 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 |
| Pixel | GZIP | Raster | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64 | Yes (1–8 bit modes) | Yes; 8b, 16b per-pixel alpha channel; 8b for indexed | 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 | None and RLE | Both | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, and 64 | Yes | Yes; 8b, 16b per-pixel alpha channel | Yes | 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 | 24 and 32 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (1.2 draft) | Yes (SMIL/SVG) | Yes | Yes | Yes, XML based | ||
| 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 |
| XAML | None | Vector | 32 and 64 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| XCF | None and lossless (gzip and bzip2) | Both | 8, 24, and 32 | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Format | Compression algorithm | Raster/ vector |
Color depth | Indexed color | Transparency | Metadata | Interlacing | Multi-page | Animation | Layers | Color management | Extendable | HDR format |
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