Raster Image Files

Ithmb was created by apple for use on an iPod that enables the display of images. It’s also used to organize pictures in photo management programs that are specific to these programs. Thumbnail images are small versions of the larger images. The files are used as a link to the original larger image, located on […]

DPX file is a raster image format that’s used for transferring film images to a digital medium without interfering with the quality. These files store digital motion picture data in a bitmap file format. DPX file is sometimes referred to as a digital moving picture exchange Bitmap. The files are often exported as a frame […]

Mac is a bitmap graphic that was created by MacPaint for the Mackintosh. Mackintosh is one of the first painting programs for the Mac. The file supports only black and white graphics as the original Mackintosh had a monochrome monitor. Mac files are also associated with macro, which usually is created by numerous programs like […]

An EXR file is a raster image, usually stored in an open EXR format. It’s a high dynamic range HDR image like format. This file was developed by industrial light and magic visual effects company. It supports, multi-layer imagers, lossy and lossless compression. In 1999, The openEXR bitmap file was originally created. 2003, was the […]

Developed by RIX Softworks, its ColorRIX, a painting application for the MS-DOS platform, used the SCP file extension. It was a binary format belong to the raster image group and was useful in storing a color raster graphic. The SCP file type is now no longer in use and hence considered obsolete.

Developed by Google, it uses the WEBP extension to store WebP raster images to use them for its web graphics. The idea of it is based on a type developed by On2 Technologies, which the tech giant acquired in 2009. It is RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format)-based and first came in the scene in the […]

Developed by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), the HEIC is a container file extension that stores a group of High-Efficiency Image Format (HEIF) images. The format contains a single picture or a sequence of images and the following information about them – • Image derivatives • Image metadata • Auxiliary image items & • Image […]

Another format created by Portalgraphics, the WPE file extension stores the stroke events in a video format to help users recreate or reanimate the final output that they had created using the openCanvas 1.1 software. The organization has created the WPB format to save the final image, but the process of creating it resides in […]

The XBM file format is a part of the X Windows System (X11). It is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) that manages the networked client-server computers. The X Bitmap (XBM) is an ASCII text monochrome which stores cursor and icons in use by the X GUI. It belongs to the raster group and stores images […]

XCF or eXperimental Computing Facility refers to a bitmap format that its creator, GIMP, uses as its default file format. GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free distributed image editing software which allows users to save channels, layers, paths, transparency, and guides. One major gripe with the extension is there is no undo button. […]