magick.exe -list format
Format Mode Description
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3FR r-- Hasselblad CFV/H3D39II (0.21.1-Release)
3G2 r-- Media Container
3GP r-- Media Container
A* rw+ Raw alpha samples
AAI* rw+ AAI Dune image
AI rw- Adobe Illustrator CS2
APNG rw+ Animated Portable Network Graphics
ART* rw- PFS: 1st Publisher Clip Art
ARW r-- Sony Alpha Raw Image Format (0.21.1-Release)
ASHLAR* -w+ Image sequence laid out in continuous irregular courses
AVI r-- Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
AVIF rw+ AV1 Image File Format (1.16.2)
AVS* rw+ AVS X image
B* rw+ Raw blue samples
BAYER* rw+ Raw mosaiced samples
BAYERA* rw+ Raw mosaiced and alpha samples
BGR* rw+ Raw blue, green, and red samples
BGRA* rw+ Raw blue, green, red, and alpha samples
BGRO* rw+ Raw blue, green, red, and opacity samples
BMP* rw- Microsoft Windows bitmap image
BMP2* rw- Microsoft Windows bitmap image (V2)
BMP3* rw- Microsoft Windows bitmap image (V3)
BRF* -w- BRF ASCII Braille format
C* rw+ Raw cyan samples
CAL* rw- Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Type 1
Specified in MIL-R-28002 and MIL-PRF-28002
CALS* rw- Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Type 1
Specified in MIL-R-28002 and MIL-PRF-28002
CANVAS* r-- Constant image uniform color
CAPTION* r-- Caption
CIN* rw- Cineon Image File
CIP* -w- Cisco IP phone image format
CLIP* rw+ Image Clip Mask
CLIPBOARD* rw- The system clipboard
CMYK* rw+ Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples
CMYKA* rw+ Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and alpha samples
CR2 r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format (0.21.1-Release)
CR3 r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format (0.21.1-Release)
CRW r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format (0.21.1-Release)
CUBE* r-- Cube LUT
CUR* rw- Microsoft icon
CUT* r-- DR Halo
DATA* rw+ Base64-encoded inline images
DCM* r-- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine image
DICOM is used by the medical community for images like X-rays. The
specification, "Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
(DICOM)", is available at http://medical.nema.org/. In particular,
see part 5 which describes the image encoding (RLE, JPEG, JPEG-LS),
and supplement 61 which adds JPEG-2000 encoding.
DCR r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image File (0.21.1-Release)
DCRAW r-- Raw Photo Decoder (dcraw) (0.21.1-Release)
DCX* rw+ ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush
DDS* rw+ Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
DFONT* r-- Multi-face font package (Freetype 2.13.2)
DNG r-- Digital Negative (0.21.1-Release)
DPX* rw- SMPTE 268M-2003 (DPX 2.0)
Digital Moving Picture Exchange Bitmap, Version 2.0.
See SMPTE 268M-2003 specification at http://www.smtpe.org
DXT1* rw+ Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
DXT5* rw+ Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
EMF r-- Windows Enhanced Meta File
EPDF rw- Encapsulated Portable Document Format
EPI rw- Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPS rw- Encapsulated PostScript
EPS2 -w- Level II Encapsulated PostScript
EPS3 -w+ Level III Encapsulated PostScript
EPSF rw- Encapsulated PostScript
EPSI rw- Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPT rw- Encapsulated PostScript with TIFF preview
EPT2 rw- Encapsulated PostScript Level II with TIFF preview
EPT3 rw+ Encapsulated PostScript Level III with TIFF preview
ERF r-- Epson RAW Format (0.21.1-Release)
EXR rw- High Dynamic-range (HDR) (OpenEXR 3.1.11)
FARBFELD* rw- Farbfeld
FAX* rw+ Group 3 FAX
FAX machines use non-square pixels which are 1.5 times wider than
they are tall but computer displays use square pixels, therefore
FAX images may appear to be narrow unless they are explicitly
resized using a geometry of "150x100%".
FF* rw- Farbfeld
FILE* r-- Uniform Resource Locator (file://)
FITS* rw+ Flexible Image Transport System
FL32* rw- FilmLight
FLV rw+ Flash Video Stream
FRACTAL* r-- Plasma fractal image
FTP* r-- Uniform Resource Locator (ftp://)
FTS* rw+ Flexible Image Transport System
FTXT* rw- Formatted text image
G* rw+ Raw green samples
G3* rw- Group 3 FAX
G4* rw- Group 4 FAX
GIF* rw+ CompuServe graphics interchange format
GIF87* rw- CompuServe graphics interchange format (version 87a)
GRADIENT* r-- Gradual linear passing from one shade to another
GRAY* rw+ Raw gray samples
GRAYA* rw+ Raw gray and alpha samples
GROUP4* rw- Raw CCITT Group4
Compression options: None, Fax/Group3, Group4, JBIG, JPEG, LERC, LZW, LZMA, RLE, ZIP, ZSTD, WEBP
HALD* r-- Identity Hald color lookup table image
HDR* rw+ Radiance RGBE image format
HEIC r-- High Efficiency Image Format (1.16.2)
HEIF r-- High Efficiency Image Format (1.16.2)
HISTOGRAM* -w- Histogram of the image
HRZ* rw- Slow Scan TeleVision
HTM* -w- Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
HTML* -w- Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
HTTP* r-- Uniform Resource Locator (http://)
HTTPS* r-- Uniform Resource Locator (https://)
ICB* rw- Truevision Targa image
ICO* rw+ Microsoft icon
ICON* rw- Microsoft icon
IIQ r-- Phase One Raw Image Format (0.21.1-Release)
INFO -w+ The image format and characteristics
INLINE* rw+ Base64-encoded inline images
IPL* rw+ IPL Image Sequence
ISOBRL* -w- ISO/TR 11548-1 format
ISOBRL6* -w- ISO/TR 11548-1 format 6dot
J2C* rw- JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax (2.5.0)
J2K* rw- JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax (2.5.0)
JNG* rw- JPEG Network Graphics
See http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/ for details about the JNG
format.
JNX* r-- Garmin tile format
JP2* rw- JPEG-2000 File Format Syntax (2.5.0)
JPC* rw- JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax (2.5.0)
JPE* rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (libjpeg-turbo 3.0.0)
JPEG* rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (libjpeg-turbo 3.0.0)
JPG* rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (libjpeg-turbo 3.0.0)
JPM* rw- JPEG-2000 File Format Syntax (2.5.0)
JPS* rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (libjpeg-turbo 3.0.0)
JPT* rw- JPEG-2000 File Format Syntax (2.5.0)
JSON -w+ The image format and characteristics
JXL* rw+ JPEG XL (ISO/IEC 18181) (libjxl 0.8.2)
K* rw+ Raw black samples
K25 r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image Format (0.21.1-Release)
KDC r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image Format (0.21.1-Release)
LABEL* r-- Image label
M* rw+ Raw magenta samples
M2V rw+ MPEG Video Stream
M4V rw+ Raw VIDEO-4 Video
MAC* r-- MAC Paint
MAP* rw- Colormap intensities and indices
MASK* rw+ Image Clip Mask
MAT rw+ MATLAB level 5 image format
MATTE* -w+ MATTE format
MEF r-- Mamiya Raw Image File (0.21.1-Release)
MIFF* rw+ Magick Image File Format
MKV rw+ Multimedia Container
MNG* rw+ Multiple-image Network Graphics (libpng 1.6.40)
See http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/ for details about the MNG
format.
MONO* rw- Raw bi-level bitmap
MOV rw+ MPEG Video Stream
MP4 rw+ VIDEO-4 Video Stream
MPC* rw+ Magick Pixel Cache image format
MPEG rw+ MPEG Video Stream
MPG rw+ MPEG Video Stream
MPO* r-- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (libjpeg-turbo 3.0.0)
MRW r-- Sony (Minolta) Raw Image File (0.21.1-Release)
MSL* rw+ Magick Scripting Language
MSVG* rw+ ImageMagick's own SVG internal renderer
MTV* rw+ MTV Raytracing image format
MVG* rw- Magick Vector Graphics
NEF r-- Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File (0.21.1-Release)
NRW r-- Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File (0.21.1-Release)
NULL* rw- Constant image of uniform color
O* rw+ Raw opacity samples
ORA r-- OpenRaster format
ORF r-- Olympus Digital Camera Raw Image File (0.21.1-Release)
OTB* rw- On-the-air bitmap
OTF* r-- Open Type font (Freetype 2.13.2)
PAL* rw- 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV
PALM* rw+ Palm pixmap
PAM* rw+ Common 2-dimensional bitmap format
PANGO* r-- Pango Markup Language (Pangocairo 1.45.2)
PATTERN* r-- Predefined pattern
PBM* rw+ Portable bitmap format (black and white)
PCD* rw- Photo CD
PCDS* rw- Photo CD
PCL rw+ Printer Control Language
PCT* rw- Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PCX* rw- ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush
PDB* rw+ Palm Database ImageViewer Format
PDF rw+ Portable Document Format
PDFA rw+ Portable Document Archive Format
PEF r-- Pentax Electronic File (0.21.1-Release)
PES* r-- Embrid Embroidery Format
PFA* r-- Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII) (Freetype 2.13.2)
PFB* r-- Postscript Type 1 font (binary) (Freetype 2.13.2)
PFM* rw+ Portable float format
PGM* rw+ Portable graymap format (gray scale)
PGX* rw- JPEG 2000 uncompressed format
PHM* rw+ Portable half float format
PICON* rw- Personal Icon
PICT* rw- Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PIX* r-- Alias/Wavefront RLE image format
PJPEG* rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (libjpeg-turbo 3.0.0)
PLASMA* r-- Plasma fractal image
PNG* rw- Portable Network Graphics (libpng 1.6.40)
See http://www.libpng.org/ for details about the PNG format.
PNG00* rw- PNG inheriting bit-depth, color-type from original, if possible
PNG24* rw- opaque or binary transparent 24-bit RGB
PNG32* rw- opaque or transparent 32-bit RGBA
PNG48* rw- opaque or binary transparent 48-bit RGB
PNG64* rw- opaque or transparent 64-bit RGBA
PNG8* rw- 8-bit indexed with optional binary transparency
PNM* rw+ Portable anymap
POCKETMOD rw+ Pocketmod Personal Organizer
PPM* rw+ Portable pixmap format (color)
PS rw+ PostScript
PS2 -w+ Level II PostScript
PS3 -w+ Level III PostScript
PSB* rw+ Adobe Large Document Format
PSD* rw+ Adobe Photoshop bitmap
PTIF* rw+ Pyramid encoded TIFF
Compression options: None, Fax/Group3, Group4, JBIG, JPEG, LERC, LZW, LZMA, RLE, ZIP, ZSTD, WEBP
PWP* r-- Seattle Film Works
QOI* rw- Quite OK image format
R* rw+ Raw red samples
RADIAL-GRADIENT* r-- Gradual radial passing from one shade to another
RAF r-- Fuji CCD-RAW Graphic File (0.21.1-Release)
RAS* rw+ SUN Rasterfile
RAW r-- Raw (0.21.1-Release)
RGB* rw+ Raw red, green, and blue samples
RGB565* r-- Raw red, green, blue samples in 565 format
RGBA* rw+ Raw red, green, blue, and alpha samples
RGBO* rw+ Raw red, green, blue, and opacity samples
RGF* rw- LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Robot Graphic Format (black and white)
RLA* r-- Alias/Wavefront image
RLE* r-- Utah Run length encoded image
RMF r-- Raw Media Format (0.21.1-Release)
RSVG* rw+ Librsvg SVG renderer (RSVG 2.40.20)
RW2 r-- Panasonic Lumix Raw Image (0.21.1-Release)
SCR* r-- ZX-Spectrum SCREEN$
SCREENSHOT* r-- Screen shot
SCT* r-- Scitex HandShake
SFW* r-- Seattle Film Works
SGI* rw+ Irix RGB image
SHTML* -w- Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
SIX* rw- DEC SIXEL Graphics Format
SIXEL* rw- DEC SIXEL Graphics Format
SPARSE-COLOR* -w+ Sparse Color
SR2 r-- Sony Raw Format 2 (0.21.1-Release)
SRF r-- Sony Raw Format (0.21.1-Release)
STEGANO* r-- Steganographic image
STRIMG* rw- String to image and back
SUN* rw+ SUN Rasterfile
SVG* rw+ Scalable Vector Graphics (RSVG 2.40.20)
SVGZ* rw+ Compressed Scalable Vector Graphics (RSVG 2.40.20)
TEXT* r-- Text
TGA* rw- Truevision Targa image
THUMBNAIL* -w+ EXIF Profile Thumbnail
TIFF* rw+ Tagged Image File Format (LIBTIFF, Version 4.5.1)
Compression options: None, Fax/Group3, Group4, JBIG, JPEG, LERC, LZW, LZMA, RLE, ZIP, ZSTD, WEBP
TIFF64* rw+ Tagged Image File Format (64-bit) (LIBTIFF, Version 4.5.1)
Compression options: None, Fax/Group3, Group4, JBIG, JPEG, LERC, LZW, LZMA, RLE, ZIP, ZSTD, WEBP
TILE* r-- Tile image with a texture
TIM* r-- PSX TIM
TM2* r-- PS2 TIM2
TTC* r-- TrueType font collection (Freetype 2.13.2)
TTF* r-- TrueType font (Freetype 2.13.2)
TXT* rw+ Text
UBRL* -w- Unicode Text format
UBRL6* -w- Unicode Text format 6dot
UIL* -w- X-Motif UIL table
UYVY* rw- 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV
VDA* rw- Truevision Targa image
VICAR* rw- Video Image Communication And Retrieval
VID* rw+ Visual Image Directory
VIFF* rw+ Khoros Visualization image
VIPS* rw+ VIPS image
VST* rw- Truevision Targa image
WBMP* rw- Wireless Bitmap (level 0) image
WEBM rw+ Open Web Media
WEBP* rw+ WebP Image Format (libwebp 1.3.2 [020F])
WMF r-- Windows Meta File
WMV rw+ Windows Media Video
WPG* rw- Word Perfect Graphics
X3F r-- Sigma Camera RAW Picture File (0.21.1-Release)
XBM* rw- X Windows system bitmap (black and white)
XC* r-- Constant image uniform color
XCF* r-- GIMP image
XPM* rw- X Windows system pixmap (color)
XPS r-- Microsoft XML Paper Specification
XV* rw+ Khoros Visualization image
Y* rw+ Raw yellow samples
YAML -w+ The image format and characteristics
YCbCr* rw+ Raw Y, Cb, and Cr samples
YCbCrA* rw+ Raw Y, Cb, Cr, and alpha samples
YUV* rw- CCIR 601 4:1:1 or 4:2:2
* native blob support
r read support
w write support
+ support for multiple images
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