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:
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.
TIFF files written by ImageJ are also supported, including ImageJ TIFFs larger than 4GB. ImageJ TIFFs are detected based upon the text in the first IFD’s “ImageDescription” tag; this tag’s value is then used to determine Z, C, and T sizes as well as physical sizes and timestamps. For ImageJ TIFFs larger than 4GB, a single IFD is expected (instead of one IFD per image plane). The “ImageDescription” is used to determine the number of images, the pixel data for which are expected to be stored contiguously at the offset indicated in the sole IFD. This differs from standard TIFF and BigTIFF; if the “ImageDescription” tag is missing or invalid, only the first image will be read.
