Gimp Image File Format
Writableimage
XCF is the native image format of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. XCF stands for eXperimental Computing Facility which is the undergraduate computing-interest organization at University of California, Berkeley, whom originally developed the format.
Identify it
| Extensions | .xcf.xcfgz.xcfbz2 |
|---|---|
| MIME types | image/x-xcfimage/xcf |
| Signatures | 67696d702078636620 at byte 0 (Gimp Image file format) |
| PRONOM | fmt/615 |
| Wikidata | Q261907 |
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Open it
- GIMPOpen source
- AbydosOpen source
- Apache TikaOpen source
- ConverseenOpen source
- ExifToolOpen source
- ImageMagickOpen source
- KPaintOpen source
- KritaOpen source
- PhotoRecOpen source
Convert it
| To | With | Fidelity | Command and losses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portable Network Graphics | ImageMagick | Lossless | convert in.xcf out.pngPixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| Tagged Image File Format | ImageMagick | Lossless | convert in.xcf out.tifPixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| GIF 89a | ImageMagick | Lossy | convert in.xcf out.gifReduced to 256 colours. |
| JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02 | ImageMagick | Lossy | convert in.xcf out.jpgLossy compression. |
| WebP | ImageMagick | Lossy | convert in.xcf out.webpLossy compression. |
Sources
From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.