Supported File Formats

IMatch supports a variety of common and specialized file formats, including many sub-formats and proprietary extensions introduced by software and hardware vendors. The number of supported file formats in IMatch is continuously extended and will include many more non-image types in future releases.

Digital Camera RAW Formats ^2,6

Nikon NEF⁵
Canon CRW³ (Including D1x TIFF files) and CR2³
Fuji RAF digital camera format
Olympus ORF
Kodak Professional Digital Cameras
Minolta MRW
Sigma
Sony Digital Camera Format
Casio Digital Camera Format
Leica RAW Formats
Panasonic Digital Camera Formats
Pentax
Epson RAW Formats
Adobe DNG

New formats are added with each release. Please check the release notes for the latest information.

Standard Image File Formats

JPEG, JFIF, EXIF-JPEG
JPEG2000 (currently read-only)
TIFF Format, including 48 Bit (16-Bit/Channel) and 16 Bit grayscale images.⁴
TIFF with ZIP and LZW compression
GIF files
LEAD Compressed (JPG and CMP)
PhotoShop Format (PSD) up to v.7 in compatibility mode, including 48-Bit, 16-Bit and Duotone images. Most layer types are also supported for images without an embedded compatibility image.
Radiance and HDR Formats
Paint Shop Pro format (all versions, no vector layer support!)
BMP Formats
Icons and Cursors (ICO and CUR)
PCX Formats (PCX and DCX)
Kodak Formats (PCD and FPX)
Exif Formats (TIFF and JPG)
Windows Metafile Formats (WMF and EMF)
XPicMap Format (XPM)
Interchange File Format (IFF)
Portable Bitmap Utilities (PBM)
Dr Halo (CUT)
Portable Network Graphics Format (PNG)
Truevision TARGA Format (TGA)
JBIG Format (JBG)
SUN Raster Format (RAS)
WordPerfect Format (WPG) Bitmaps only, no vector support
Macintosh Pict Format (PCT)
Windows AVI Format (AVI)
TIFF CCITT and Other FAX Formats¹
LEAD 1-Bit Format (CMP)
XBitMap (XBM)
IntergraphRLE (ITG)
Windows Clipboard Format (CLP)
Miscellaneous 1-Bit Formats (MAC, IMG, and MSP)

Document, Office and Multimedia Formats

Although IMatch is focused on digital image management, it provides support for a wide range of non-image formats too. For many formats IMatch can even render thumbnails or previews⁷. For other file formats, IMatch uses the standard icon representation you know from Windows Explorer.
All file-management features in IMatch (including Copy/Move/Rename and Categorize) are also available for non-image formats.

Adobe PDF (PDF)
Microsoft Office (DOC,XML,PPT,MSP,...)
Multimedia-Formats (AVI, MOV, RM,MPEG,MPG,...)
MP3 Audio (MP3)
Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
Others can be configured as needed

²  Due to the undocumented nature of most digital camera RAW formats, there is no guarantee that IMatch can handle all camera models or file format variants. Not all features of these RAW formats are supported. Please use the tools and applications provided by your camera vendor to process your RAW files to maximum possible quality.

³ IMatch uses the official Canon developer support libraries, and hence supports all image formats supported by these libraries.

⁴ No write support for 16-Bit per channel images is included in IMatch at the moment. Batch processing and image conversion works for 24 bit (8 bits per channel) and below only.

⁵  IMatch uses the official Nikon software development kit for "Capture-like" display quality.

⁶  Most camera vendors do not document their proprietary file formats, and also don't provide support for developers. This makes it hard to support RAW formats in IMatch (This is a problem for all third-party applications, not only the photools.com products). Even the vendors who have developer support (Canon, Kodak, Nikon) often needs months to update their developer libraries after a new camera model has been released.

⁷ This feature depends on the built-in ability in Windows to render thumbnails for file formats, and may require additional software (e.g. Adobe® Acrobat® or Microsoft® Office®).