In Solution Explorer, open the shortcut menu for the project that you want to add the image to, and then choose Add > New Item. This section describes how to add an image to your Visual Studio project and configure it for your requirements. The Image Editor supports the following image formats: Format name This includes support for popular image file formats and color encodings, features such as alpha-channels and MIP-mapping, and many of the highly compressed, hardware-accelerated texture formats that DirectX supports. You can use the Image Editor to work with the kinds of rich texture and image formats that are used in DirectX app development. This article describes how to work with the Visual Studio Image Editor to view and modify texture and image resources.