Supported image formats¶

The following table shows supported image formats and support level for release 0.18.

• Write support for RAW formats is new in 0.18. Be sure to test carefully if your applications work well with images modified by Exiv2.
• Reading other TIFF-like RAW files may 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 -
SR2 Read Read Read -
ORF Read Read Read -
PNG ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite
RAF Read Read Read -
XMP - - ReadWrite -
GIF - - - -
PSD Read Read Read -
TGA - - - -
BMP - - - -
JP2 ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite -