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This chapter provides information about the image formats that ImageGear supports. Before you begin, please refer to the Encoding vs. Compressing section below to familiarize yourself with the terms used in this Chapter.

Then you can read the Format Suitability at a Glance section, which briefly delineates which formats best support various types of images. This section provides you with a starting point for deciding which file formats to use in your application.

The section ImageGear Support for Graphics File Formats describes the types of imaging file formats supported by ImageGear and provides useful information about support for some specific formats:

ImageGear Supported Bit Depths section describes the bit depths, and the read/write capabilities of the supported formats. Using this table you can easily find out whether an image can be converted to a particular format.

Detailed information about every ImageGear supported imaging file format or compression can be found in the following sections:

The section ImageGear Supported Digital Camera RAW Formats provides you with information about the level of ImageGear support for DC RAW formats.

If you are going to use the ImageGear alpha channels or transparency support, please review the section ImageGear Alpha Channel Support or ImageGear Transparency Support.

The section ImageGear Supported Non-Image Data provides detailed information about ImageGear supported metadata.

Encoding vs. Compressing

These two words are often used interchangeably in discussions of graphics file formats. Encoding is actually a broad term under which compression falls. For the sake of clarity, use these terms separately with the following intended meanings:

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