XCF

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XCF (from English eXperimental Computing Facility ) is the native file format of the free image processing program GIMP .

Text modules, paths and layers can be saved in an XCF file without loss, which makes it comparable to the PSD or PSPImages format of Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo . The layers can be saved with up to 32-bit integer or floating point numbers per pixel per color channel or an optional transparency channel in RGB color space or in a linear color space. GIMP also supports transparent compression of its file format; The compression algorithms bzip2 and gz are implemented , the compressed files then have the extensions .xcf.bz2 and .xcf.gz .

Support outside of the GIMP

XCF is fully supported by the following programs:

Other programs can read XCF, but only with more or less success:

There are also some online services that offer the conversion of XCF files into various other formats:

proof

  1. Release Notes of Inkscape 0.44
  2. README from Eva's Generic Loaders . Enlightenment project developer portal. Retrieved November 16, 2014.