What format is TIF?

TIFF is a more flexible image format, its full name is Tagged Image file format, file extension is TIF or TIFF. This format supports 256-color, 24-bit True color, 32-bit color, 48-bit color, and many other color bits, while supporting a variety of color modes such as RGB, CMYK and YCBCR, and supports multiple platforms.

TIFF files can be uncompressed, the file size is large, can also be compressed, support raw, RLE, LZW, JPEG, CCITT3 and 4 groups and many other compression methods.

The TIFF format (TAG Image File format) is a widely used graphics format on the Macintosh, featuring a complex graphics format and many storage information. A large number of textures in 3DS, 3DS Max are in TIFF format. TIFF maximum color deep 32bit, can be used LZW lossless compression scheme storage.

The TIFF format can produce very high quality images and is often used for publishing printing. It can display millions of colors (although grayscale images are limited to 256 colors or shading) and are typically used for image files that are larger than GIF or JPEG format. Saving in this format is helpful if you want to edit an image in a program that is not creating the image, because it can be recognized by a variety of programs.

Used to exchange files between an application and a computer platform. TIFF is a flexible bitmap image format that is almost supported by all painting, image editing, and page layout applications. Also, almost all desktop scanners can generate TIFF images.