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XCF, short for eXperimental Computing Facility, [1] is the native image format of the GIMP image-editing program. It saves all of the data the program handles related to the image, including, among others, each layer, the current selection, channels, transparency, paths and guides.
GIF animation of an Apollonian sphere packing with transparent background. Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be ...
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format CompuServe, Unisys (compression algorithm) .gif, .gfa, .giff image/gif General purpose, obsolete, now only used for animations Yes HEIF: High Efficiency Image Format Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) .heif, .heic image/heif, image/heic, image/heic-sequence, image/heif-sequence General purpose No HDRi: TIFF ...
WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, [8] as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the WebP format in September 2010, and released the first stable version of its supporting library in April ...
The PNG file format supports 8-bit (256 colors) paletted images (with optional transparency for all palette colors) and 24-bit truecolor (16 million colors) or 48-bit truecolor with and without alpha channel – while GIF supports only 8-bit palettes with a single transparent color.
GIMP's native format XCF is designed to store all information GIMP can contain about an image; XCF is named after the eXperimental Computing Facility where GIMP was authored. Import and export capability can be extended to additional file formats by means of plug-ins. XCF file size is extended to more than 4 GB since 2.9.6 and new stable tree 2 ...
Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) is a file format which extends the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification to permit animated images that work similarly to animated GIF files, while supporting 24 or 48-bit images and full alpha transparency not available for GIFs.
Transparency: render portions of an image invisible. Draw: add shapes or text to an image. Decorate: add a border or frame to an image. Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image. Animation: assemble a GIF animation file from a sequence of images. Text and comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image.