BMP Tags

There really isn't much meta information in a BMP file as such, just a bit of image related information.

Index1 Tag Name Writable Values / Notes

0 BMPVersion no (this is actually the size of the BMP header, but used to determine the BMP version)
40 = Windows V3
68 = AVI BMP structure?
108 = Windows V4
124 = Windows V5

4 ImageWidth no

8 ImageHeight no

12 Planes no

14 BitDepth no

16 Compression no
0 = None
1 = 8-Bit RLE
2 = 4-Bit RLE 3 = Bitfields
4 = JPEG
5 = PNG

20 ImageLength no

24 PixelsPerMeterX no

28 PixelsPerMeterY no

32 NumColors no

36 NumImportantColors no

40 RedMask no

44 GreenMask no

48 BlueMask no

52 AlphaMask no

56 ColorSpace no
0 = Calibrated RGB
1 = Device RGB
2 = Device CMYK
'LINK' = Linked Color Profile
'MBED' = Embedded Color Profile
'Win ' = Windows Color Space
'sRGB' = sRGB

60 RedEndpoint no

72 GreenEndpoint no

84 BlueEndpoint no

96 GammaRed no

100 GammaGreen no

104 GammaBlue no

108 RenderingIntent no 1 = Graphic (LCS_GM_BUSINESS)
2 = Proof (LCS_GM_GRAPHICS)
4 = Picture (LCS_GM_IMAGES)
8 = Absolute Colorimetric (LCS_GM_ABS_COLORIMETRIC)

112 ProfileDataOffset no

116 ProfileSize no

BMP OS2 Tags

Information extracted from OS/2-format BMP images.

Index1 Tag Name Writable Values / Notes

0 BMPVersion no (again, the header size is used to determine the BMP version)
12 = OS/2 V1
64 = OS/2 V2

4 ImageWidth no

6 ImageHeight no

8 Planes no

10 BitDepth no

BMP Extra Tags

Extra information extracted from some BMP images.

Tag Name Writable Values / Notes

EmbeddedJPG no

EmbeddedPNG no

ICC_Profile - --> ICC_Profile Tags

LinkedProfileName no

(This document generated automatically by Image::ExifTool::BuildTagLookup)
Last revised Dec 7, 2016

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