What is BMP?
BMP is an uncompressed Windows bitmap format. It is simple and widely readable on Windows, but files are large compared with modern compressed formats.
BMP (Bitmap) is best for Windows-centric legacy interchange. Extensions: .bmp. MIME: image/bmp, image/x-ms-bmp. Can be used as input. Can be used as output.
Common uses
- Legacy Windows tooling
- Interchange with software that expects raw bitmaps
- Teaching or debugging pixel buffers
Things to know
- Very large files for high-resolution images
- No useful web compression story
- Rarely ideal as a long-term archive format
- Formatly converts BMP in your browser. Files are not uploaded.