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TIFF

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

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

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)

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