image Format
BMP File Format
Bitmap is Microsoft Windows’ uncompressed raster format. It stores raw pixel color values directly without loss or complex compression algorithms.
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Technical Specifications
| Extensions | .bmp |
| MIME Types | image/bmp, image/x-ms-bmp |
| Category | Image |
| Engine Tier | tier1-native |
| Magic Bytes / Sniffing | 0x42 0x4D |
| Opens With | Microsoft Paint, All Windows image viewers |
| Good For | Hardware graphics testing and legacy industrial software. |
| Not Recommended For | Web distribution and modern storage due to massive file sizes. |