Supported File Formats in ACDSee Professional
Files that can be read by ACDSee:
ABR |
Adobe™ brush format |
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ACDC |
ACDSee Ultimate ACDC Image |
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AFPHOTO |
Affinity |
Thumbnails only |
ANI |
Windows animated cursor |
Shows cursor animation |
ARW |
Sony RAW |
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BMP |
Windows Bitmap |
Windows and OS/2;2/8/16/24/32 bpp; RLE and uncompressed |
CNV |
Canvas |
Thumbnails only |
CR2 |
Canon RAW CR2 |
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CR3 |
Canon RAW CR3 |
To see applicable cameras, please refer to the supported RAW format page on the ACDSee website. |
cRAW |
Sony cRAW |
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CRW |
Canon RAW CRW |
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CUR |
Windows cursor |
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CVX |
Canvas |
Thumbnails only |
DCR |
Kodak RAW DCR |
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DCX |
Multi-page PCX |
All sub-types and multiple pages supported |
DNG |
Digital Negative |
An open-source archival format for RAW files |
EMF |
Enhanced Metafile Format |
Win32 enhanced placeable metafiles |
ERF |
Epson RAW |
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GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
Single page animated; 87a and 89a |
GPR |
GoPro RAW |
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HDR |
Creo RAW |
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HEIF |
High Efficiency Image File Format |
Supports EXIF only. IPTC metadata is not supported for HEIC files |
ICN |
AT&T ICN |
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ICO |
Windows icon |
Shows multiple resolutions as separate pages |
JBR |
Corel brush format |
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JP2 |
JPEG2000 |
48-bit support |
JPC |
JPEG2000 |
48-bit support |
JPG |
JPEG JFIF |
JFIF and Adobe CMYK |
MRW |
Konica Minolta RAW |
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NEF |
Nikon RAW |
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ORF |
Olympus RAW |
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PBR |
Corel PaintShop Pro brush format |
Up to 3072×2048 resolution (16BASE) |
PCX |
ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush |
All sub-types supported |
PEF |
Pentax RAW PEF, Samsung RAW |
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PCT |
Macintosh PICT |
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PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
All sub-types supported |
PSD |
Adobe PhotoShop Document |
RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only |
RAF |
FujiFilm RAW |
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RAW |
Pentax RAW, Leica RAW, Contax RAW, Casio RAW, Panasonic RAW |
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RWL |
Leica RAW |
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sRAW |
Canon sRAW |
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SRW |
Samsung SRW |
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SVG |
Scalable Vector Graphics |
Requires Windows 10 and the Creators' update. |
TGA |
Targa TGA |
All sub-types supported |
TIFF |
Tag Image File Format |
Bilevel / RGB / Paletted / CMYK / YCrCb / LOGL / LOGLUV; Uncompressed / PackBits / LZW / ThunderScan / SGILog / CCITT / ZIP / NEXT / New-JPEG (no v6.0 JPEG support) Support for multiple-page documents Kodak RAW TIFF, Canon RAW TIFF |
WBMP |
Wireless Bitmap |
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WEBP |
Google WebP Format |
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WMF |
Windows Metafile Format |
Win 3.x placeable metafiles |
Files that can be written by ACDSee:
ACDC |
ACDSee Ultimate ACDC Image |
Not supported on ACDSee Pro 9 and ACDSee 19 |
BMP |
Windows Bitmap |
Windows 1/8/24 bpp |
GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
Non-interlaced GIF 89a only |
GPR |
GoPro RAW |
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JP2 |
JPEG2000 |
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JPEG |
JPEG JFIF |
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PCX |
ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush |
8 and 24 bpp; RLE compressed |
PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
1/4/8 bpp colormapped; 24 bpp RGB |
PSD |
Adobe PhotoShop Document |
RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only |
WBMP |
Wireless Bitmap |
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WEBP |
Google WebP Format |
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TGA |
Targa TGA |
8 and 24 bpp. RLE and uncompressed top-down and bottom-up |
TIFF |
Tag Image File Format |
1/8/24 bits per pixel, single-page; uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT4, LZW, Deflate (ZIP), and JPEG compression; Adjustable DPI tags |
Archive read support formats:
ARJ |
ARJ archive |
ARJ format |
CAB |
CAB archive |
Microsoft CAB file format |
GZ |
GZ archive |
Unix GZIP (GnuZIP) |
RAR |
RAR archive |
RAR format (RAR5 is not supported) |
TAR |
TAR archive |
Unix TAR format |
TGZ |
TGZ archive |
TAR format compressed with GZIP |
ZIP |
ZIP archive |
Store and deflate |
Archive write support formats:
ZIP |
ZIP archive |
Store and deflate |
Video and audio read support formats:
AAC |
Audio Data Transport Format |
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ADST |
Audio Data Transport Stream |
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ASF |
Active Streaming File – HotMetaL Pro |
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AVI |
AVI movie format |
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M4A |
MPEG-4 |
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M4V |
MPEG-4 |
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MOV |
MPEG-4 |
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MP3 |
MPEG Layer III compressed audio |
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MP4 |
MPEG-4 |
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WAV |
Sound file |
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VMA |
Sound file |
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WMV |
Windows Metafile |
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