TIFF, Tagged Image File Format (.tiff)

The TIFF Raster image file format

TIFF is a computer file format used for storing raster graphics and images as well as vector images. It can also be used for storing photographs and line art. The TIFF file format has been developed because of the increasing popularity of scanning soft and hardware, and it was even contemplated to turn this file format into the standard format for scanned images. It is a very popular format because it supports color depths from 1 to 24 bit and supports lossy and lossless compression.

Technical details of TIFF files

The LZW compressed body of a TIFF file as well as it's palette data is defined by different chunks of information. Depending on the first word of the byte order for a TIFF image file, it can either be induced by Intel or Motorola. If the first word is II then it's Intel byte ordering, if it is MM then it's Motorola. At the beginning of every TIFF file there has to be a header. This header serves the purpose of pointing to the directory of image files where all the data and information of the image can be found.

More information about the TIFF file format

File extension .tiff
File category Raster image
Example file Download example_small.tiff file (488.13 KiB)
Download example.tiff file (3.1 MiB)
Associated programs Microsoft Windows Photos (Windows)
Microsoft Windows Photo Viewer (Windows)
Apple Preview (Mac)
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite (Windows)
Adobe Photoshop (Windows & Mac)
Adobe Photoshop Elements (Windows & Mac)
Adobe Illustrator (Windows & Mac)
ACD Systems ACDSee (Windows)
MacPhun ColorStrokes (Mac)
Nuance PaperPort (Windows)
Nuance OmniPage Ultimate (Windows)
Roxio Toast (Mac)

Other image viewers
Useful links Learn more about the TIFF file
File conversion Convert a file to TIFF
Developer Aldus, Adobe Systems
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Convert your TIFF file to another file format

  1. TIFF to BMP
  2. TIFF to EPS
  3. TIFF to GIF
  4. TIFF to ICO
  5. TIFF to JPG
  6. TIFF to PDF
  7. TIFF to PNG
  8. TIFF to TGA
  9. TIFF to WBMP
  10. TIFF to WEBP
  11. TIFF to DOC
  12. TIFF to SVG

Convert your raster image file to the TIFF format

  1. ZIP to TIFF
  2. ICO to TIFF
  3. JP2 to TIFF
  4. DCM to TIFF
  5. TGA to TIFF
  6. EPS to TIFF
  7. AI to TIFF
  8. BMP to TIFF
  9. RTF to TIFF
  10. XLS to TIFF
  11. WMF to TIFF
  12. PDF to TIFF
  13. CDR to TIFF
  14. SVG to TIFF
  15. PNG to TIFF
  16. CR2 to TIFF
  17. XPS to TIFF
  18. ARW to TIFF
  19. JPEG to TIFF
  20. DOC to TIFF

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