| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| AVS | AVS X image file |
| BMP | Microsoft Windows bitmap image file |
| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile |
| CMYK | Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes |
| DCX | ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush file |
| DIB | Microsoft Windows bitmap image file |
| EPS | Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file |
| EPS2 | Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript file |
| EPSF | Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file |
| EPSI | Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format |
| FAX | Group 3 |
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System |
| GIF | CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color |
| GIF87 | CompuServe graphics interchange format; 8-bit color (version 87a) |
| GRADATION | gradual passing from one shade to another. Specify the desired shading as the filename (e.g. gradation:red-blue). |
| GRANITE | granite texture. |
| GRAY | Raw gray bytes |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
| HISTOGRAM | Histogram of the image |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map |
| JBIG | Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format; compressed 24-bit color |
| MAP | colormap intensities and indices |
| MATTE | Raw matte bytes |
| MIFF | Magick image file format |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format |
| MTV | MTV Raytracing image format |
| NETSCAPE | Netscape 216 color cube. |
| NULL | NULL image |
| PBM | Portable bitmap format (black and white) |
| PCD | Photo CD |
| PCL | Page Control Language |
| PCX | ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file |
| Portable Document Format | |
| PGM | Portable graymap format (gray scale) |
| PICT | Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file |
| PLASMA | plasma fractal image. Specify the base color as the filename (e.g. plasma:blue-yellow). Use fractal to initialize to a random value (e.g. plasma:fractal). |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNM | Portable anymap |
| PPM | Portable pixmap format (color) |
| PS | Adobe PostScript file |
| PS2 | Adobe Level II PostScript file |
| RAD | Radiance image file |
| RGB | Raw red, green, and blue bytes |
| RGBA | Raw red, green, blue, and matte bytes |
| RLA | Alias/Wavefront image file; read only |
| RLE | Utah Run length encoded image file; read only |
| SGI | Irix RGB image file |
| SHTML | Hypertext Markup Language with a client-side image map |
| SUN | SUN Rasterfile |
| TEXT | raw text file; read only |
| TGA | Truevision Targa image file |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| TILE | tile image with a texture |
| UYVY | 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV (e.g. used by AccomWSD) |
| VICAR | read only |
| VID | Visual Image Directory |
| VIFF | Khoros Visualization image file |
| X | select image from X server screen |
| XC | constant image of X server color |
| XBM | X Windows system bitmap, black and white only |
| XPM | X Windows system pixmap file (color) |
| XWD | X Windows system window dump file (color) |
| YUV | CCIR 601 4:1:1 file |
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