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
Format |
Extension |
Import / Supported Since |
Export / Supported Since |
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Adobe Geospatial PDF |
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|
3.2 |
|
3.2 |
BigTIFF |
*.tif, *.tiff |
|
3.0 |
1 |
3.4 |
BSB |
*.kap |
|
4.1 |
|
|
ENVI Raster |
*.hdr, *.dat |
|
5.2 |
|
|
ERDAS IMAGINE Raster |
*.img |
|
3.4 |
1 |
3.5 |
ER Mapper ECW2 |
*.ecw |
|
2.5 |
|
|
GeoPackage |
*.gpkg |
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|
|
5.1 |
TerraGo GeoPDF |
|
|
3.2 |
|
|
GeoTIFF |
*.tif, *.tiff |
|
1.0 |
|
1.0 |
JPEG 20002 |
*.jp2, *.j2k,*.jpx,*.jpc, *.j2c,*.jpf |
|
2.5 |
|
3.2 |
LizardTech MrSID1,2 |
*.sid |
|
2.5 |
3 |
4.1 |
MrSID/MG4 LiDAR1,2 |
*.sid |
|
3.4 |
|
|
NITF |
*.ntf |
|
3.0 |
1 |
3.4 |
PCI EASI/PACE |
*.pix |
|
2.5 |
|
|
SGI Image Format |
*.rgb, *.rgba, *.int, *.inta, *.bw |
|
2.5 |
|
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Web Map Service (WMS) |
*.tiff, *.png, *.jpg, *.gif |
|
3.4 |
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1 Not available with Basic License
2 Not supported for Mac Apple Silicon machines
3 Windows only
Supported DEM Formats
Format |
Extension |
Import / Supported Since |
Export / Supported Since |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|
ArcInfo ASCII Grid |
*.agr, *.asc |
|
2.5 |
|
5.0 |
ArcInfo Binary Grid |
*.adf |
|
2.5 |
|
|
ArcInfo Floating Grid |
*.flt |
|
3.4 |
|
|
BIL |
*.bil |
|
3.0 |
|
5.0 |
ENVI DEM |
*.hdr, *.dat |
|
5.2 |
|
|
ERDAS IMAGINE |
*.img |
|
3.4 |
|
|
Grayscale GeoTIFF DEM |
*.tiff |
|
3.4 |
|
4.2 |
Military Elevation Data / DTED |
*.dt0, *.dt1, *.dt2 |
|
2.5 |
|
|
USGS SDTS |
*.ddf |
|
2.5 |
|
|
USGS DEM |
*.dem |
|
2.5 |
|
4.3 |
SRTM |
*.hgt |
|
2.5 |
|
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Supported External Reference Formats
Format |
Extension |
Import |
Export |
---|---|---|---|
World Files |
*.tfw, *.tifw, *.wld, *.jgw, *.pgw, *.sdw, *.eww, *.blw, *.dmw, *.bpw, *.gfw |
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Blue Marble Reference |
*.rsf |
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MapInfo TAB |
*.tab |
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ER Mapper |
*.ers |
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All external reference formats supported since version 1.0.
Supported Web Tile Formats
Format |
Extension |
Import |
Export / Supported Since |
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---|---|---|---|---|
Google Maps |
*.html, *.png |
|
|
4.2 |
Bing Maps |
*.html, *.png |
|
|
4.2 |
OpenStreetMap (OSM) |
*.html, *.png |
|
|
5.0 |
Tile Map Service |
*.xml, *.png |
|
|
5.0 |
Mapbox TileMill |
*.mbtiles |
|
|
5.0 |
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