Image File Name Extensions. The windows bitmap or bmp files are image files within the microsoft windows operating system. Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images an image file format may store data in an uncompressed format a compressed format which may be lossless or lossy or a vector format.

Common image file formats. For example an rgb color depth of 8 indicates that each of the red green and blue components are represented by an 8 bit value. Raw image files contain data from a digital camera usually.
For example an rgb color depth of 8 indicates that each of the red green and blue components are represented by an 8 bit value.
Bmp files are also called raster or paint images. They include all the files as well as the file system information. Common image file formats. There are a lot of different raw formats each camera company often has its own proprietary format.