| Tag | Description |
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| AAI | AAI Dune image |
| APNG | Animated Portable Network Graphics |
| ART | PFS: 1st Publisher |
| ARW | Sony Digital Camera Alpha Raw Image Format |
| AVI | Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved |
| AVIF | Format derived from the keyframes of AV1 video |
| AVS | AVS X image |
| BAYER | Raw mosaiced samples |
| BPG | Better Portable Graphics |
| BMP, BMP2, BMP3 | Microsoft Windows bitmap |
| CALS | Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Type 1 image |
| CIN | Kodak Cineon Image Format |
| CMYK | Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples |
| CMYKA | Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and alpha samples |
| CR2 | Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format |
| CRW | Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format |
| CUBE | A lookup table containing math instructions to replace a color (based on RGB value) by another one. It's like a color grading preset. This process is done pixel by pixel with a very high accuracy. |
| CUR | Microsoft Cursor Icon |
| CUT | DR Halo |
| DCM | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image |
| DCR | Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image File |
| DCX | ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush image |
| DDS | Microsoft Direct Draw Surface |
| DIB | Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap |
| DJVU |
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| DMR | Digital media repository |
| DNG | Digital Negative |
| DOT | Graph Visualization |
| DPX | SMPTE Digital Moving Picture Exchange 2.0 (SMPTE 268M-2003) |
| EMF | Microsoft Enhanced Metafile (32-bit) |
| EPDF | Encapsulated Portable Document Format |
| EPI | Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format |
| EPS | Adobe Encapsulated PostScript |
| EPSF | Adobe Encapsulated PostScript |
| EPSI | Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format |
| EPT | Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview |
| EXR | High dynamic-range (HDR) file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic |
| FARBFELD | Farbfeld lossless image format |
| FAX | Group 3 TIFF |
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System |
| FL32 | FilmLight floating point image format |
| FLIF | Free Lossless Image Format |
| FPX | FlashPix Format |
| FTXT | Read and write multispectral channels as formatted text |
| GIF | CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format |
| GPLT | Gnuplot plot files |
| GRAY | Raw gray samples |
| GRAYA | Raw gray and alpha samples |
| HDR | Radiance RGBE image format |
| HDR | Radiance RGBE image format |
| HEIC | Apple High efficiency Image Format |
| HPGL | HP-GL plotter language |
| HRZ | Slow Scan TeleVision |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map |
| ICO | Microsoft icon |
| JBIG | Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format |
| JNG | Multiple-image Network Graphics |
| JP2 | JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax |
| JPT | JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax |
| J2C | JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax |
| J2K | JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format |
| JXR | JPEG extended range |
| JXL | JPEG XL image coding system |
| MAN | Linux reference manual pages |
| MAT | MATLAB image format |
| MIFF | Magick multispectral image file format |
| MONO | Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order |
| MNG | Multiple-image Network Graphics |
| M2V | Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 2) |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 1) |
| MPC | Magick Pixel Cache image file format |
| MPO | Multi-picture Object |
| MPR | Magick Persistent Registry |
| MRW | Sony (Minolta) Raw Image File |
| MSL | Magick Scripting Language |
| MTV | MTV Raytracing image format |
| MVG | Magick Vector Graphics. |
| NEF | Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File |
| ORF | Olympus Digital Camera Raw Image File |
| ORA | open exchange format for layered raster based graphics |
| OTB | On-the-air Bitmap |
| P7 | Xv's Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format |
| PALM | Palm pixmap |
| CLIPBOARD | Windows Clipboard |
| PBM | Portable bitmap format (black and white) |
| PCD | Photo CD |
| PCDS | Photo CD |
| PCX | ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file |
| PDB | Palm Database ImageViewer Format |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| PEF | Pentax Electronic File |
| PES | Embrid Embroidery Format |
| PFA | Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII) |
| PFB | Postscript Type 1 font (binary) |
| PFM | Portable float map format |
| PGM | Portable graymap format (gray scale) |
| PHM | Portable float map format 16-bit half |
| PICON | Personal Icon |
| PICT | Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file |
| PIX | Alias/Wavefront RLE image format |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNG8 | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNG00 | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNG24 | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNG32 | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNG48 | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNG64 | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNM | Portable anymap |
| POCKETMOD | Pocketmod personal organizer format |
| PPM | Portable pixmap format (color) |
| PS | Adobe PostScript file |
| PS2 | Adobe Level II PostScript file |
| PS3 | Adobe Level III PostScript file |
| PSB | Adobe Large Document Format |
| PSD | Adobe Photoshop multispectral bitmap file |
| PTIF | Pyramid encoded TIFF |
| PWP | Seattle File Works multi-image file |
| QOI | Quite OK Image Forma |
| RAD | Radiance image file |
| RAF | Fuji CCD-RAW Graphic File |
| RAW | Raw gray samples |
| RGB | Raw red, green, and blue samples |
| RGB565 | Raw red, green, blue pixels in the 5-6-5 format |
| RGBA | Raw red, green, blue, and alpha samples |
| RGF | LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Robot Graphics File |
| RLA | Alias/Wavefront image file |
| RLE | Utah Run length encoded image file |
| SCT | Scitex Continuous Tone Picture |
| SFW | Seattle File Works image |
| SGI | Irix RGB image |
| SID, MrSID | Multiresolution seamless image |
| STRIMG | String to images and back |
| SUN | SUN Rasterfile |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| TEXT | text file |
| TGA | Truevision Targa image |
| TIFF | Tagged image file multispectral format |
| TIM | PSX TIM file |
| TTF | TrueType font file |
| TXT | Multispectral raw text file |
| UYVY | Interleaved YUV raw image |
| VICAR | VICAR rasterfile format |
| VIDEO | Various video formats such as APNG, AVI, MP4, WEBM, etc. Refer to defines for a description of these defines: video:intermediate-format, video:pixel-format, and video:vsync defines, that can affect the operation on these video formats. |
| VIFF | Khoros Visualization Image File Format |
| WBMP | Wireless bitmap |
| WDP | JPEG extended range |
| WEBP | Weppy image format |
| WMF | Windows Metafile |
| WPG | Word Perfect Graphics File |
| X | display or import an image to or from an X11 server |
| XBM | X Windows system bitmap, black and white only |
| XCF | GIMP image |
| XPM | X Windows system pixmap |
| XWD | X Windows system window dump |
| X3F | Sigma Camera RAW Picture File |
| YCbCr | Raw Y, Cb, and Cr samples |
| YCbCrA | Raw Y, Cb, Cr, and alpha samples |
| YUV | CCIR 601 4:1:1 |