What is the difference between .xcf and .vips?
- Name
- GIMP Image
- VIPS Image
- Extension
- .xcf
- .vips
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- GIMP
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- 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.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- application/x-xcf
- image/vnd.vips
- Sample
- sample.xcf
- Wikipedia
- .xcf on Wikipedia
- .vips on Wikipedia