TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

Extensions: .tiff, .tif, .tf2, .tf8, .btf

Developer: Aldus and Microsoft

Owner: Adobe

Support

BSD-licensed:

Export:

Officially Supported Versions:

Reader: TiffReader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

Writer: TiffWriter (Source Code)

Sample Datasets:

• LZW TIFF data gallery
• Big TIFF

We currently have:

• a TIFF specification document
• many TIFF datasets
• a few BigTIFF datasets

We would like to have:

Ratings

Pixels:

Metadata:

Openness:

Presence:

Utility:

Additional Information

Bio-Formats can also read BigTIFF files (TIFF files larger than 4 GB). Bio-Formats can save image stacks as TIFF or BigTIFF.

See also

TIFF technical overview BigTIFF technical overview