Supported file formats in ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2025, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2025, ACDSee Photo Studio Home 2025, and ACDSee Gemstone Photo Editor 14.
Image read support format
| ABR | Adobe™ brush format | |
| ACDC | ACDSee Ultimate ACDC Image | |
| AFPHOTO | Affinity | Thumbnails only |
| ANI | Windows animated cursor | Shows cursor animation |
| ARW | Sony RAW | |
| AVIF | AV1 Image File Format | Animated AVIF files are not supported. Supports EXIF only. IPTC metadata is not supported for AVIF files. |
| BMP | Windows Bitmap | Windows and OS/2;2/8/16/24/32 bpp; RLE and uncompressed |
| CNV | Canvas | Thumbnails only |
| CR2 | Canon RAW CR2 | |
| CR3 | Canon RAW CR3 | To see applicable cameras, please refer to the supported RAW format page. |
| cRAW | Sony cRAW | |
| CRW | Canon RAW CRW | |
| CUR | Windows cursor | |
| CVX | Canvas | Thumbnails only |
| DCR | Kodak RAW DCR | |
| DCX | Multi-page PCX | All sub-types and multiple pages supported |
| DNG | Digital Negative | An open-source archival format for RAW files |
| EMF | Enhanced Metafile Format | Win32 enhanced placeable metafiles |
| ERF | Epson RAW | |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | Single page animated; 87a and 89a |
| GPR | GoPro RAW | |
| GSD | Gemstone Document | GSD file support plugin available for Photo Studio 2020 and newer. Layers only supported in Gemstone Photo Editor. |
| HDR | Creo RAW | |
| HEIC/HEIF | High Efficiency Image File Format | Includes support for HIF files. Supports EXIF only. IPTC metadata is not supported for HEIC files |
| ICN | AT&T ICN | |
| ICO | Windows icon | Shows multiple resolutions as separate pages |
| JBR | Corel brush format | |
| JP2 | JPEG2000 | 48-bit support |
| JPC | JPEG2000 | 48-bit support |
| JPG | JPEG JFIF | JFIF and Adobe CMYK |
| MRW | Konica Minolta RAW | |
| NEF | Nikon RAW | |
| ORF | Olympus RAW | |
| PBR | Corel PaintShop Pro brush format | Up to 3072×2048 resolution (16BASE) |
| PCX | ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush | All sub-types supported |
| PEF | Pentax RAW PEF, Samsung RAW | |
| PCT | Macintosh PICT | |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | All sub-types supported |
| PSD | Adobe PhotoShop Document | RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only |
| RAF | FujiFilm RAW | |
| RAW | Pentax RAW, Leica RAW, Contax RAW, Casio RAW, Panasonic RAW | |
| RWL | Leica RAW | |
| sRAW | Canon sRAW | |
| SRW | Samsung SRW | |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics | Not supported in Gemstone Photo Editor 14. |
| TGA | Targa TGA | All sub-types supported |
| TIFF | Tag Image File Format | Bilevel / RGB / Paletted / CMYK / YCrCb / LOGL / LOGLUV; Uncompressed / PackBits / LZW / ThunderScan / SGILog / CCITT / ZIP / NEXT / New-JPEG (no v6.0 JPEG support) Support for multiple-page documents Kodak RAW TIFF, Canon RAW TIFF |
| WBMP | Wireless Bitmap | |
| WEBP | Google WebP Format | Includes support for animated and transparent WebP files. Animation not supported in Gemstone Photo Editor 14. |
| WMF | Windows Metafile Format | Win 3.x placeable metafiles |
Image write support format
| ACDC | ACDSee Ultimate ACDC Image | Not supported in ACDSee Pro 9, ACDSee 19, and Gemstone Photo Editor |
| AVIF | AV1 Image File Format | Supports EXIF only. IPTC metadata is not supported for AVIF files. |
| BMP | Windows Bitmap | Windows 1/8/24 bpp |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | Non-interlaced GIF 89a only |
| GSD | Gemstone Document | GSD file support plugin available for Photo Studio 2020 and newer. Layers only supported in Gemstone Photo Editor. |
| JP2 | JPEG2000 | 48-bit support |
| JPEG | JPEG JFIF | |
| PCX | ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush | 8 and 24 bpp; RLE compressed |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | 1/4/8 bpp colormapped; 24 bpp RGB |
| PSD | Adobe PhotoShop Document | RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only |
| WBMP | Wireless Bitmap | |
| WEBP | Google WebP Format | |
| TGA | Targa TGA | 8 and 24 bpp. RLE and uncompressed top-down and bottom-up |
| TIFF | Tag Image File Format | 1/8/24 bits per pixel, single-page; uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT4, LZW, Deflate (ZIP), and JPEG compression; Adjustable DPI tags |
Archive read support formats
Not supported in Gemstone Photo Editor.
| ARJ | ARJ archive | ARJ format |
| CAB | CAB archive | Microsoft CAB file format |
| GZ | GZ archive | Unix GZIP (GnuZIP) |
| RAR | RAR archive | RAR format (RAR5 is not supported) |
| TAR | TAR archive | Unix TAR format |
| TGZ | TGZ archive | TAR format compressed with GZIP |
| ZIP | ZIP archive | Store and deflate |
Archive write support formats
Not supported in Gemstone Photo Editor.
| ZIP | ZIP archive | Store and deflate |
Video and audio read support formats
Not supported in Gemstone Photo Editor.
| AAC | Audio Data Transport Format |
| ADTS | Audio Data Transport Stream |
| ASF | Active Streaming File – HotMetaL Pro |
| AVI | AVI movie format |
| M4A | MPEG-4 |
| M4V | MPEG-4 |
| MOV | MPEG-4 |
| MP3 | MPEG Layer III compressed audio |
| MP4 | MPEG-4 |
| WAV | Sound file |
| WMA | Sound file |
| WMV | Windows Metafile |
Document view support formats
Not supported in Photo Studio Professional*, Photo Studio Home, or Gemstone Photo Editor.
To view Microsoft® Office documents in ACDSee Ultimate, you will need to have Microsoft® Office 2010 or above installed.
| DOC | Microsoft® Office Word | |
| DOCX | Microsoft® Office Open XML | |
| Portable Document Format | *PDF viewing is supported in Professional | |
| PPS | Microsoft® Office PowerPoint | |
| PPSX | Microsoft® Powerpoint Open XML | |
| PPT | Microsoft® Office Powerpoint | |
| PPTX | Microsoft® Powerpoint Open XML | |
| RTF | Rich Text Format | |
| XLS | Microsoft® Office Excel | |
| XLSB | Microsoft® Excel Binary Workbook | |
| XLSX | Microsoft® Excel Open XML | |
| XPS | Microsoft® XML Paper Specification |