Note: All image formats listed below are contained in the Pro & Enterprise editions of BatchPhoto. To see which formats belong to which editions see the comparison chart.

Common Image Formats

Name Extension Read Write Details
AVIF
AVIF AV1 Image File Format is an open, royalty-free image file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1
BMP
BMP Microsoft Windows bitmap
EPS
EPS Adobe Encapsulated PostScript (requires Ghostscript to read)
PICT
PCT/PICT Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
GIF
GIF CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format
HEIF
HEIF/HEIC Apple's High Efficiency Image File Format is a container format for storing individual digital images and image sequences.
JP2
JP2 JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax
JPT
JPT/JPC/J2C/J2K JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax
JPG
JPG/JPEG/JPE Joint Photographic Experts Group is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography
PCX
PCX ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file
PDF
PDF/PDP Portable Document Format (requires Ghostscript to read)
PNG
PNG Portable Network Graphics is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression
PSD
PSD/PDD Adobe Photoshop multispectral bitmap file
SGI
SGI Irix RGB image
TGA
TGA/ICB/VDA/VST Truevision Targa image
TIF
TIF/TIFF Tag Image File Format, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists and photographers
WBMP
WBMP Wireless bitmap
WEBP
WEBP Raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG

Raw Image Formats

Name Extension Read Write Details
3FR
3FR Hasselblad Digital Camera Raw Image
ARI
ARI Arriflex Digital Camera Raw Image
ARW
ARW Sony Digital Camera Raw Image
BAY
BAY Casio Digital Camera Raw Image
CAP
CAP Phase One Digital Camera Raw Image
CIFF
CIFF Canon Camera Image File Format
CR2
CR2 Canon Digital Camera Raw Image
CRW
CRW Canon Digital Camera Raw Image
DCR
DCR Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image
DCS
DCS Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image
DNG
DNG Generic Digital Camera Raw Image
DRF
DRF Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image
EIP
EIP Phase One Digital Camera Raw Image
ERF
ERF Epson Digital Camera Raw Image
FFF
FFF Imacon Digital Camera Raw Image
IIQ
IIQ Phase One Digital Camera Raw Image
K25
K25 Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image
KDC
KDC Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image
MRW
MRW Minolta Digital Camera Raw Image
MEF
MEF Mamiya Digital Camera Raw Image
MOS
MOS Leaf Digital Camera Raw Image
NEF
NEF Nikon Digital Camera Raw Image
NRW
NRW Nikon Digital Camera Raw Image
ORF
ORF Olympus Digital Camera Raw Image
PEF
PEF Pentax Digital Camera Raw Image
PTX
PTX Pentax Digital Camera Raw Image
PXN
PXN Logitech Digital Camera Raw Image
RAF
RAF Fuji Digital Camera Raw Image
RWL
RWL Leica Camera Raw Image
RW2
RW2 Panasonic Digital Camera Raw Image
RAW
RAW Generic Digital Camera Raw Image
SR2
SR2 Sony Digital Camera Raw Image
SRF
SRF Sony Digital Camera Raw Image

Additional Image Formats

Name Extension Read Write Details
AAI
AAI AAI Dune image
APNG
APNG Animated Portable Network Graphics
ART
ART PFS: 1st Publisher
AVI
AVI Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
AVS
AVS AVS X image
BAYER
BAYER Raw mosaiced samples
BPG
BPG Better Portable Graphics
BRF
BRF Braille Ready Format
CALS
CALS Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Type 1 image
CIN
CIN Kodak Cineon Image Format
CMYK
CMYK Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples
CMYKA
CMYKA Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and alpha samples
CUBE
CUBE Cube Color lookup table converted to a HALD image
CUR
CUR Microsoft Cursor Icon
CUT
CUT DR Halo
DCM
DCM/DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image
DCX
DCX ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush image
DDS
DDS Microsoft Direct Draw Surface
DIB
DIB Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap
DOT
DOT Graph Visualization
DPX
DPX SMPTE Digital Moving Picture Exchange
EMF
EMF Microsoft Enhanced Metafile (32-bit)
EPDF
EPDF Encapsulated Portable Document Format
EPI
EPI Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format (requires Ghostscript to read)
EPS2
EPS2 Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript (requires Ghostscript to read)
EPS3
EPS3 Adobe Level III Encapsulated PostScript (requires Ghostscript to read)
EPSF
EPSF Adobe Encapsulated PostScript (requires Ghostscript to read)
EPSI
EPSI Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format (requires Ghostscript to read)
EPT
EPT Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview (requires Ghostscript to read)
EXR
EXR High dynamic-range (HDR) file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic
FARBFELD
FARBFELD Farbfeld lossless image format
FAX
FAX Group 3 TIFF
FITS
FITS Flexible Image Transport System
FL32
FL32 FilmLight floating point image format
FLIF
FLIF Free Lossless Image Format
FPX
FPX FlashPix Format
FTXT
FTXT Read and write multispectral channels as formatted text
GRAY
GRAY Raw gray samples
GRAYA
GRAYA Raw gray and alpha samples
HDR
HDR Radiance RGBE image format
HRZ
HRZ Slow Scan TeleVision
ICO
ICO/ICON Microsoft icon
INFO
INFO Format and characteristics of the image
INLINE
INLINE Base64-encoded inline image
JBIG
JBIG/BIE/JBG Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format
JNG
JNG Multiple-image Network Graphics
JSON
JSON JavaScript Object Notation, a lightweight data-interchange format
JXL
JXL JPEG XL image coding system
KERNEL
KERNEL Morphology kernel format
MAT
MAT MATLAB image format
MIFF
MIFF Magick image file format
MONO
MONO Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order
MNG
MNG Multiple-image Network Graphics
MPC
MPC Magick Persistent Cache image file format
MSL
MSL/MS Magick Scripting Language
MTV
MTV MTV Raytracing image format
MVG
MVG Magick Vector Graphics
ORA
ORA Open exchange format for layered raster based graphics
OTB
OTB On-the-air Bitmap
P7
P7 Xv's Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format
PALM
PALM Palm pixmap
PAM
PAM Common 2-dimensional bitmap format
CLIPBOARD
CLIPBOARD Windows Clipboard (only for Windows)
PBM
PBM Portable bitmap format (black and white)
PCD
PCD Photo CD
PCDS
PCDS Photo CD
PCL
PCL/PC HP Page Control Language
PDB
PDB Palm Database ImageViewer Format
PES
PES Embrid Embroidery Format
PFA
PFA Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII)
PFB
PFB Postscript Type 1 font (binary)
PFM
PFM Portable float map format
PGM
PGM Portable graymap format (gray scale)
PHM
PHM Portable float map format 16-bit half
PICON
PICON Personal Icon
PIX
PIX Alias/Wavefront RLE image format
PNG8
PNG8 Portable Network Graphics
PNG00
PNG00 Portable Network Graphics
PNG24
PNG24 Portable Network Graphics
PNG32
PNG32 Portable Network Graphics
PNG48
PNG48 Portable Network Graphics
PNG64
PNG64 Portable Network Graphics
PNM
PNM/PBM/PGM/PPM Portable anymap
PPM
PPM Portable pixmap format (color)
PS
PS Adobe PostScript file (requires Ghostscript to read)
PS2
PS2 Adobe Level II PostScript file (requires Ghostscript to read)
PS3
PS3 Adobe Level III PostScript file (requires Ghostscript to read)
PSB
PSB Adobe Large Document Format
PTIF
PTIF Pyramid encoded TIFF
PWP
PWP Seattle File Works multi-image file
QOI
QOI Quite OK Image Format
RGB
RGB Raw red, green, and blue samples
RGB565
RGB565 Raw red, green, blue pixels in the 5-6-5 format
RGBA
RGBA Raw red, green, blue, and alpha samples
RGF
RGF LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Robot Graphics File
RLA
RLA Alias/Wavefront image file
RLE
RLE Utah Run length encoded image file
SCT
SCT Scitex Continuous Tone Picture
SFW
SFW Seattle File Works image
SHTML
SHTML Hypertext Markup Language client-side image map
STRIMG
STRIMG String to images and back
SUN
SUN SUN Rasterfile
SVG
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
TIM
TIM PSX TIM file
TTF
TTF TrueType font file
TXT
TXT Multispectral raw text file
UBRL
UBRL Unicode BRaiLle
UBRL6
UBRL6 Unicode BRaiLle 6 dots
UIL
UIL/UI X-Motif UIL table
UYVY
UYVY Interleaved YUV raw image
VICAR
VICAR VICAR rasterfile format
VIDEO
VIDEO Various video formats such as APNG, AVI, MP4, WEBM, etc.
VIFF
VIFF Khoros Visualization Image File Format
WPG
WPG Word Perfect Graphics File
X
X Display or import an image to or from an X11 server
XBM
XBM X Windows system bitmap, black and white only
XCF
XCF GIMP image
XPM
XPM X Windows system pixmap
XWD
XWD X Windows system window dump
YAML
YAML Human-readable data-serialization language
YCbCr
YCbCr Raw Y, Cb, and Cr samples
YCbCrA
YCbCrA Raw Y, Cb, Cr, and alpha samples
YUV
YUV CCIR 601 4:1:1