Exiv2

h1. Supported image formats

The following table shows supported image formats and support level for release 0.20. 0.19.

Note:
* Write support for RAW image formats was introduced in release 0.18. Be sure to test carefully if your applications work well with images modified by Exiv2.
* Reading other TIFF-like RAW image formats, which are not listed in the table, may also work. Exiv2 was so far only tested with the more popular RAW image formats.
* Support for GIF, TGA and BMP is minimal: Exiv2 recognizes the image format, assigns a MIME type to it and is able to determine the image height and width of the image.

| *Type* | *Exif mode* | *IPTC mode* | *XMP mode* | *Comment mode* |
| JPEG | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite |
| EXV | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite |
| CR2 | Read | Read | Read | - |
| CRW | ReadWrite | - | - | ReadWrite |
| MRW | Read | Read | Read | - |
| TIFF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - |
| DNG | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - |
| NEF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - |
| PEF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - |
| ARW | Read | Read | Read | - |
| RW2 SR2 | Read | Read | Read | - |
| SR2 ORF | Read | Read | Read | - |
| ORF RW2 | ReadWrite Read | ReadWrite Read | ReadWrite Read | - |
| PNG | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite |
| PGF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite |
| RAF | Read | Read | Read | - |
| XMP | - | - | ReadWrite | - |
| GIF | - | - | - | - |
| PSD | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - |
| TGA | - | - | - | - |
| BMP | - | - | - | - |
| JP2 | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - |