What is a .XCF file?
XCF is the native layered-image format of GIMP, the free image editor. Created and opened by GIMP.
- Did you know
- GIMP first appeared in 1996 and is the best-known free alternative to Photoshop.
- XCF stands for eXperimental Computing Facility, the student computing group at UC Berkeley where GIMP was first written.
- An XCF file preserves a project’s full editing state, including every layer, channel, path, selection and guide.
- What Analyser shows you
- Open GIMP documents (.xcf) in the browser. Unlike a Photoshop file, an XCF stores no flattened image at all - it is only the layer stack - so Analyser composites the picture itself: it decodes each layer’s tiles (uncompressed, RLE or zlib), applies that layer’s mask, opacity and blend mode, and paints the stack bottom-up. Shows the full layer list with each layer’s mode, opacity, size, offset and mask, plus the canvas, colour mode, XCF version and palette, and the composite can be saved as a PNG. RGB, grayscale and indexed images are all handled; files saved at 16- or 32-bit precision are described rather than drawn.
- Open a .XCF file
- Drag a .XCF file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- Browse the full list of supported file types.