The following image formats are currently supported by the Chasys
Draw IES suite. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and that support for additional formats can be added by installing
the appropriate plug-in via the plug-in manager:
Format
Description
Support
.cd5
Chasys Draw IES Image
Read/Write
.bmp / .dib / .rle /.ptr
Bitmap Image, Windows and OS/2, including OS/2 bitmap arrays, icons and pointers
JPEG-XR (a.k.a “HD Photo” or “Windows Media Photo”) (see Note 2)
Read/Write
.webp
Google WebP Image, including Animated WebP
Read/Write
.ora
OpenRaster Image (cross-platform layered format)
Read/Write
.xcf / .xcfgz / .xcfbz2
GIMP’s native format (plain, gzip, and bzip2)
Read/Write
.gbr
GIMP Brush File
Read
.gih
GIMP Image Hose
Read
.psd
Adobe Photoshop’s native format
Read/Write
.pat
Adobe Pattern File
Read
.abr
Adobe Brush File
Read
.psp / .pspimage
Corel/Jasc PaintShop Pro’s native format
Read
.pspbrush
Corel/Jasc PaintShop Pro Brush File
Read
.cpt
Corel PHOTO-PAINT’s native format
Read
.pdn
Paint.NET’s native format
Read
.kra
Krita’s native file format
Read
.afphoto
Affinity Photo’s native format
Read
.emf / .wmf
Enhanced/Windows MetaFiles
Read
.xbm / .xpm
X window system BitMap/PixMap
Read/Write
.pcd
Eastman Kodak Photo-CD File
Read
.svg
Scalable Vector Graphics (partial support)
Read
.dds
DirectDraw Surface
Read/Write
.dpx
Digital Picture Exchange (including RLE encoding and YUV variants)
Read/Write
.qoi
Quite OK Image
Read/Write
.pict / .pct / .pic
Macintosh PICT Image
Read/Write
.fit / .fits
Flexible Image Transport System
Read
.avi
Audio/Video interleaved; short duration
Read/Write
.mpg / .wmv / .mp4 / et. al.
Movies/Videos; short duration with the option of selecting a clip (see Note 4)
Read
.heif / .heic / .avif / .avc
High Efficiency Image Codec (see Note 1 and Note 3)
Read
The following digital camera RAW formats are currently supported via the Camera RAW plug-in. Please note that this list is not exhaustive:
Format
Description
.dng
Adobe Digital Negative
.crw
Canon Photo RAW CRW
.cr2
Canon Photo RAW CR2/CIFF
.cr3
Canon Photo RAW CR3/C-RAW
.raf
FUJI Photo RAW
.nef
Nikon Electronic Format
.nrw
Nikon Electronic Format
.orf
Olympus RAW File
.srf
Sony RAW File
.sr2
Sony RAW Image
.arw
Sony Digital Camera Image
.rw2
Panasonic Photo RAW
.raw
Panasonic/Casio RAW
.pef
Pentax Photo RAW
.ptx
Pentax Photo RAW
.k25
Kodak Photo RAW
.kdc
Kodak Photo RAW
.dcr
Kodak Photo RAW
.mrw
Minolta Photo RAW
.erf
Epson Photo RAW
.3fr
Hasselblad Photo RAW
.mos
CREO/Leaf Photo RAW
.srw
Samsung RAW Image
.rwl
Leica RAW Image
.x3f
Sigma Foveon X3 RAW
.iiq
Phase One RAW Image
.bay
Casio RAW Image
.fff
Hasselblad RAW Image
.mef
Mamiya RAW Image
.mfw
Mamiya RAW Image
NOTES
Note #1: Support for Animated PNG is based on the popular APNG specification by Mozilla, not the relatively unpopular MNG specification by the PNG Development Group.
Note #2: Requires the Windows Imaging Component (WIC). WIC is included by default on Windows 7 and above. For Windows XP, WIC is included in SP3, and may be downloaded as a stand-alone component for SP2.
Note #3: Requires the HEIF and HEVC extensions from Microsoft, or a third-party WIC extension for the same. Alternatively, a DirectSHOW video codec that supports both HEVC and AV1 may be used.
Note #4: Loading of videos is dependent on the video codecs that are available on your computer. Chasys Draw IES will generally load any video format that you have a codec for.
Note #5: JPEG-XL is still under development and has known issues. As a result of one of these issues, large images cannot be saved in the JPEG-XL format. I also strongly recommend against converting important images to JPEG-XL.
Adding More Formats
You can add support for more file formats by installing additional file format plug-ins. If you are comfortable with software development, you can also create your own as described in the Software Development Kit.