TIFF

File Format
Name	TIFF
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics TIFF
Extension(s)	.tiff, .tif
MIME Type(s)	image/tiff
PRONOM	fmt/353

TIFF, formerly known as Tag(ged) Image File Format, is an image format capable of storing multiple high quality images in a single file.

A TIFF image may be uncompressed or use a compression scheme internally. Two of the most widely used compression schemes in TIFF files are lossless, including LZW and, for bitonal images CCITT Group 4, as used for facsimile transmission [fax]. JPEG baseline DCT-based lossy compression is also used.

Several subtypes and extensions of TIFF exist, including: TIFF/EP, TIFF/IT, DNG, GeoTIFF, and BigTIFF. Multi-image TIFFs may represent sequences of images (such as scanned pages of a document), image tiles, or different versions of the same image, for example Pyramid TIFFs that incorporate images at different resolutions (often tiled). Some software that can read and display a TIFF file may only open the primary image.

Specifications

• TIFF, Revision 6.0 (1992-06-03)
  • TIFF Revision 5.0 (1988-08-08)
    • HTML
    • Text
  • Tag Image File Format Rev 4.0 (1987-04-31)
    • HTML
    • Text
• Adobe PageMaker 6.0 TIFF Technical Notes (1995-09-14)
• Adobe Photoshop TIFF Technical Notes (2002-03-22)
• Adobe Photoshop TIFF Technical Note 3 (2005-04-08)

Versions / Conformance levels

• [TIFF/IT-FP:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-CT:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-LW:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-HC:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-MP:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-BP:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-BL:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-FP/P1:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-CT/P1:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-LW/P1:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-HC/P1:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-MP/P1:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-BP/P1:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-BL/P1:1998]
• [TIFF/IT-FP:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-CT:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-LW:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-HC:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-MP:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-BP:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-BL:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-SD:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-FP/P1:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-CT/P1:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-LW/P1:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-HC/P1:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-MP/P1:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-BP/P1:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-BL/P1:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-FP/P2:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-CT/P2:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-LW/P2:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-HC/P2:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-MP/P2:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-BP/P2:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-BL/P2:2003]
• [TIFF/IT-SD/P2:2003]

Metadata tags

• http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/TIFF_Metadata_Final.pdf
• http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/tiff_tags.shtml

Sample images

• http://www.fileformat.info/format/tiff/sample/index.htm
• http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/images.html
• http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/tif/tif.html
• https://github.com/openplanets/format-corpus/tree/master/tiff-examples

External links

• Adobe Developer Resources for TIFF
• LibTIFF
• TIFF.js
• TIFF, Revision 6.0, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats