The FlashPix File Format provides easy desktop handling of digital color photographic images. It was developed and published by Eastman Kodak Company in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, Live Picture, Inc., and Microsoft.

The FlashPix component provides the following features:

• A full hierarchy of resolutions for each image
• A "Source Plus Transform" storage scheme for easy "undos" and no loss of image quality, no matter how many transformations are applied
• A choice of JPEG or Single Color compression
• A detail-oriented stash of non-image data (title, subject, people in the picture, creation date, etc.)
• Thumbnail support
• Tiled storage
• The use of all ImageGear functions to load, save, and transform FlashPix images
• A special FlashPix-specific API, including functions that make reading and writing of non-image information easy
• The ability to perform all FlashPix transformations on any ImageGear image
• The ability to perform ImageGear transformations without losing FlashPix transformations