Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

image formats
     
         There are many formats used to store
        {images} in files.  {GIF}, {TIFF} and {JPEG} are very common.
        Others are {BIFF}, {bmp}, {Clear}, {FITS}, {IFF}, {NFF},
        {OFF}, {PCX}, {PNG}, {TGA}, {XBM}.
     
        Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
     
        {The Graphics File Format Page
        (http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/)}.
        {The NCSA file formats archive
        (ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/misc/file.formats/graphics.formats)}.
        {The Avalon repository
        (ftp://avalon.viewpoint.com/pub/format_specs)}.
     
        [Others?]
     
        (1997-08-07)