XCF
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
- ImageMagick (WebAssembly)Open source
- KPaintOpen source
- KritaOpen source
- PhotoRecOpen source
Convert it
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| To | With | Fidelity | Command and losses |
|---|---|---|---|
| BMP 5.0 | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossless | in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| PNG | ImageMagick | Lossless | convert in.xcf out.pngPixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| PNG | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossless | in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| Quite OK Image Format | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossless | in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| TIFF | ImageMagick | Lossless | convert in.xcf out.tifPixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| TIFF | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossless | in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser The image is embedded in a PDF page. | |
| AVIF | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossy | in browser Lossy compression. |
| GIF 89a | ImageMagick | Lossy | convert in.xcf out.gifReduced to 256 colours. |
| GIF 89a | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossy | in browser Reduced to 256 colours. |
| ICO | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossy | in browser Icons are limited to 256 × 256 pixels. |
| JFIF 1.02 | ImageMagick | Lossy | convert in.xcf out.jpgLossy compression. |
| JFIF 1.02 | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossy | in browser Lossy compression. |
| JPEG XL | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossy | in browser Lossy compression. |
| WebP | ImageMagick | Lossy | convert in.xcf out.webpLossy compression. |
| WebP | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Lossy | in browser Lossy compression. |
Sources
From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), WebAssembly engines (ImageMagick, FFmpeg, Pandoc, 7-Zip, GDAL, Assimp, resvg), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-26.