What is the difference between .xcf and .ras?
- Name
- GIMP Image
- SUN Rasterfile
- Extension
- .xcf
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- GIMP
- Sun
- Description
- The XCF file format is the native image format used by GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks. XCF stands for eXperimental Computing Facility, which was the name of the lab where GIMP was originally developed. XCF files are designed to store all the information that GIMP needs to accurately render an image.
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-xcf
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Sample
- sample.xcf
- Wikipedia
- .xcf on Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia