Image File Formats Bmp. In fact it was at one point one of the few image formats. Bmp files are also called raster or paint images.
However some other formats like png and jpeg they. Bmp files are also called raster or paint images. The bmp file format is capable of storing two dimensional digital images both.
The bmp file format also known as bitmap image file device independent bitmap dib file format and bitmap is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images independently of the display device such as a graphics adapter especially on microsoft windows and os 2 operating systems.
Technically a bitmap image is an uncompressed file format which means every pixel of an image has its own bit or group of bits in the file. The microsoft windows bitmap bmp format is widely known and has been around for decades. Bmp is an image format left over from the early days of computer graphics and doesn t receive much use anymore. It was originally developed by microsoft for use on their windows operating sytem.