Image formats that can be opened and displayed by Adobe Photoshop can form the basis for a spatial image. This includes, but is not limited to, the following common formats: TIF, JPG, BMP, PSD, GIF and PNG. With Geographic Imager installed, these common formats can be paired with a reference file that stores spatial information. This provides images that are not traditionally referenced to be fully referenced. Geographic Imager 6.4 introduced an extension to the PSD and PSB formats by enabling the reference information and coordinate system to be embedded directly in the file. This allows Geographic Imager to read and write the spatial reference of PSD and PSB files without the need for supplementary files. Geographic Imager also provides the ability to read many spatial formats that are unavailable with just Adobe Photoshop (see table below). Formats listed below are supported on both Windows and Mac versions of Geographic Imager, unless otherwise indicated.
Spatial reference information cannot be written to or read from Photoshop cloud documents
Note that although any image, in any color mode, can be georeferenced and recognized by Geographic Imager, the performance of some Geographic Imager functions are restricted to certain color modes/bit depths.
Supported Raster/Reference Formats
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Format |
Extension |
Supported since |
Read |
Write |
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BigTIFF |
*.tif, *.tiff |
Read: 3.0, Write: 3.4 |
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BSB |
*.kap |
4.1 |
|
- |
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ENVI Raster |
*.hdr, *.dat |
5.2 |
|
- |
|
ERDAS IMAGINE Raster |
*.img |
Read: 3.4, Write: 3.5 |
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ER Mapper ECW |
*.ecw |
Read: 2.5 |
|
- |
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Geospatial PDF |
|
3.2 |
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GeoPackage |
*.gpkg |
5.1 |
- |
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GeoPDF |
|
3.2 |
|
- |
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GeoTIFF |
*.tif, *.tiff |
1.0 |
|
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JPEG 2000 |
*.jp2, *.j2k,*.jpx,*.jpc, *.j2c,*.jpf |
Read: 2.5, Write: 3.2 |
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LizardTech MrSID |
*.sid |
Read: 2.5, Write: 4.1 |
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MrSID/MG4 LiDAR |
*.sid |
3.4 |
|
- |
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NITF |
*.ntf |
Read: 3.0, Write: 3.4 |
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PCI EASI/PACE |
*.pix |
2.5 |
|
- |
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SGI Image format |
*.rgb, *.rgba, *.int, *.inta, *.bw |
2.5 |
|
- |
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Web Map Service (WMS) |
*.tiff, *.png, *.jpg, *.gif |
3.4 |
|
- |
*
* Windows only
Supported DEM Formats
|
Format |
Extension |
Supported since |
Read |
Write |
|
Esri ArcInfo ASCII Grid |
*.agr, *.asc |
Read: 2.5, Write: 5.0 |
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Esri ArcInfo Binary Grid |
*.adf |
2.5 |
|
- |
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Esri ArcInfo Floating Grid |
*.flt |
3.4 |
|
- |
|
BIL |
*.bil |
Read: 3.0, Write: 5.0 |
|
|
|
ENVI DEM |
*.hdr, *.dat |
5.2 |
|
- |
|
ERDAS IMAGINE |
*.img |
3.4 |
|
- |
|
Grayscale GeoTIFF DEM |
*.tiff |
Read: 3.4, Write: 4.2 |
|
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Military Elevation Data / DTED |
*.dt0, *.dt1, *.dt2 |
2.5 |
|
- |
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USGS SDTS |
*.ddf |
2.5 |
|
- |
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USGS DEM |
*.dem |
Read: 2.5, Write: 4.3 |
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|
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SRTM |
*.hgt |
2.5 |
|
- |
Supported External Reference Formats
|
Format |
Extension |
Supported since |
Read |
Write |
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World Files |
*.tfw, *.tifw, *.wld, *.jgw, *.pgw, *.sdw, *.eww, *.blw, *.dmw, *.bpw, *.gfw |
1.0 |
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Blue Marble Reference |
*.rsf |
1.0 |
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MapInfo TAB |
*.tab |
1.0 |
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ER Mapper |
*.ers |
1.0 |
|
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Supported Web Tile Formats
|
Format |
Extension |
Supported since |
Read |
Write |
|
Google Maps |
*.html, *.png |
4.2 |
- |
|
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Bing Maps |
*.html, *.png |
4.2 |
- |
|
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OpenStreetMap (OSM) |
*.html, *.png |
5.0 |
- |
|
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Tile Map Service |
*.xml, *.png |
5.0 |
- |
|
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Mapbox TileMill |
*.mbtiles |
5.0 |
- |
|
Supported Vector Map Data Formats
|
Format |
Extension |
Supported since |
Points and Text Import |
Lines and Areas Import |
| AutoCAD Drawing/Exchange | *.dxf, *.dwg | 6.0 |
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| Delimited XY Text Data | *.txt, *.csv, *.tsv | 6.0 |
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| Digital Line Graph | *.opt, *.dlg | 6.0 |
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| Esri ArcInfo Generate | *.gen | 6.0 |
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| Esri Interchange File | *.e00 | 6.0 |
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| Esri Shapefile | *.shp | 6.0 |  |
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| Geography Markup Language | *.gml, *.xml | 6.0 | |
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| GeoJSON | *.geojson, *.json | 6.0 |
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| GeoPackage | *.gpkg | 6.5 | |
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| Google Earth | *.kml, *.kmz | 6.0 | |
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| GPS Exchange Format | *.gpx | 6.0 | |
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| International Hydrographic Office S-57 | *.000, *.030 | 6.0 | |
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| MapInfo Interchange Format | *.mif | 6.0 | |
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| MapInfo Table | *.tab | 6.0 | |
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| Microsoft Excel | *.xls | 6.0 | |
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| MicroStation Design | *.dgn | 6.0 | |
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| Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) | *.catd.ddf | 6.0 | |
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| TIGER/Line | *.rt1, *.r1, *.bw1 | 6.0 | |
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| Esri File Geodatabase | *.gdb | 6.1 | |
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| Esri Personal Geodatabase | *.mdb | 6.1 | |
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| PostGIS Spatial Database | 6.1 | |
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