What is the difference between .arw and .xwd?
- Extension
- .arw
- .xwd
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Camera
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sony
- X Window System
- Description
- Digital photograph captured by a Sony digital camera, and based on the TIFF specification; contains raw, uncompressed image data as captured by the camera's CCD; can be adjusted using image-editing software before exporting to common raster formats such as .JPG or .TIFF.
- The XWD (X Windows Dump) image file format is a native graphic format associated with the X Window System, which is a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in UNIX and Linux environments. An XWD file is essentially a dump or snapshot of what is being displayed on a screen or part of it at a given moment. It stores image data in an uncompressed form, including the header information that contains details about the image's size, color, and format.
- MIME Type
- image/x-sony-arw
- image/x-xwindowdump
- Sample
- sample.arw
- sample.xwd
- Wikipedia
- .xwd on Wikipedia