Editing GIMP (section)

=== File formats ===
GIMP supports importing and exporting with a large number of different [[file format]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=File formats supported by the GIMP |url=http://www.gimphelp.org/formats.shtml |date=2007 |website=GimpHelp.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830034326/http://www.gimphelp.org/formats.shtml |archive-date=30 August 2009 |access-date=2 July 2009 }}</ref> GIMP's native format [[XCF (file format)|XCF]] is designed to store all information GIMP can contain about an image; XCF is named after the e''X''perimental ''C''omputing ''F''acility 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&nbsp;GB since 2.9.6 and new stable tree 2.10.x.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

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! Import and export
| GIMP has import and export support for image formats such as [[BMP file format|BMP]], [[JPEG]], [[PNG]], [[GIF]], [[TIFF]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=GIMP - Feature Overview |url=https://www.gimp.org/features/ |website=Gimp.org |access-date=25 April 2024 }}</ref> and [[High Efficiency Image File Format|HEIF]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilber |date=7 October 2020 |title=GIMP - GIMP 2.10.22 Released |url=https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/10/07/gimp-2-10-22-released/ |website=Gimp.org |access-date=25 April 2024 }}</ref> along with the file formats of several other applications such as [[Autodesk]] flic animations, Corel [[PaintShop Pro]] images, and Adobe Photoshop documents. Other formats with read/write support include [[PostScript]] documents, [[X Window System|X]] bitmap image, [[xwd]], and Zsoft [[PCX]]. GIMP can also read and write path information from [[SVG]] files and read/write [[ICO (file format)|ICO]] Windows icon files.
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! Import only
| GIMP can import Adobe [[PDF]] documents and the [[raw image format]]s used by many [[digital camera]]s, but cannot save to these formats. An open source plug-in, [[UFRaw]] (or community supported fork nUFRAW), adds full raw compatibility, and has been noted several times for being updated for new camera models more quickly than Adobe's UFRaw support.
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! Export only
| GIMP can export to [[Multiple-image Network Graphics|MNG]] layered image files (Linux version only) and [[HTML]] (as a table with colored cells), [[C (programming language)|C]] source code files (as an array) and [[ASCII art]] (using a plug-in to represent images with characters and punctuation making up images), though it cannot read these formats.
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