Supported File Formats in ACDSee Professional

Files that can be read by ACDSee:

ABR

Adobe™ brush format

 

ACDC

ACDSee Professional ACDC Image

 

AFPHOTO

Affinity

Thumbnails only

ANI

Windows animated cursor

Shows cursor animation

ARW

Sony RAW

 

AVIF

AV1 Image File Format

Animated AVIF files are not supported. Supports EXIF only. IPTC metadata is not supported for AVIF files.

BMP

Windows Bitmap

Windows and OS/2;2/8/16/24/32 bpp; RLE and uncompressed

CNV

Canvas

Thumbnails only

CR2

Canon RAW CR2

 

CR3

Canon RAW CR3

To see applicable cameras, please refer to the supported RAW format page on the ACDSee website.

cRAW

Sony cRAW

 

CRW

Canon RAW CRW

 

CUR

Windows cursor

 

CVX

Canvas

Thumbnails only.

DCR

Kodak RAW DCR

 

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

 

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

Single page animated; 87a and 89a.

GPR

GoPro RAW

 

GSD

Gemstone Document

Layers only supported in Gemstone Photo Editor.

HDR

Creo RAW

 

HEIC/HEIF

High Efficiency Image File Format

Includes support for HIF files. Supports EXIF only. IPTC metadata is not supported for HEIC files.

ICN

AT&T ICN

 

ICO

Windows icon

Shows multiple resolutions as separate pages.

JBR

Corel brush format

 

JP2

JPEG 2000

48-bit support.

JPC

JPEG 2000

48-bit support.

JPG

JPEG JFIF

JFIF and Adobe CMYK.

MRW

Konica Minolta RAW

 

NEF

Nikon RAW

 

ORF

Olympus RAW

 

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

 

PCT

Macintosh PICT

 

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

 

RAW

Pentax RAW, Leica RAW, Contax RAW, Casio RAW, Panasonic RAW

 

RWL

Leica RAW

 

sRAW

Canon sRAW

 

SRW

Samsung SRW

 

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

 

WEBP

Google WebP Format

Includes support for animated and transparent WebP files.

WMF

Windows Metafile Format

Win 3.x placeable metafiles.

Files that can be written by ACDSee:

ACDC

ACDSee Professional ACDC Image

Not supported on ACDSee Pro or ACDSee Home.

AVIF

AV1 Image File Format

Supports EXIF only. IPTC metadata is not supported for AVIF files.

BMP

Windows Bitmap

Windows 1/8/24 bpp.

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

Non-interlaced GIF 89a only.

GPR

GoPro RAW

 

JP2

JPEG2000

 

JPEG

JPEG JFIF

 

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

 

WEBP

Google WebP Format

 

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

 

ADST

Audio Data Transport Stream

 

ASF

Active Streaming File – HotMetaL Pro

 

AVI

AVI movie format

 

M4A

MPEG-4

 

M4V

MPEG-4

 

MOV

MPEG-4

 

MP3

MPEG Layer III compressed audio

 

MP4

MPEG-4

 

WAV

Sound file

 

VMA

Sound file

 

WMV

Windows Metafile

 

Document view support formats:

PDF

Portable Document Format.