What is a .TIFF file?
TIFF is a high-quality, often lossless image format used in photography, scanning and publishing.
- Did you know
- TIFF was created by Aldus in 1986 for desktop publishing; Adobe controls the specification today.
- The name stands for “Tagged Image File Format”, because the file is built from numbered tags, each describing one property of the image such as its width or colour layout.
- A single TIFF can hold many images in one file through stacked Image File Directories, which is how multi-page scans and faxes are stored.
- TIFF can store up to 16 bits per colour channel and supports CMYK as well as RGB, which is why scanning and pre-press publishing rely on it.
- On the web a .TIFF file is served with the MIME type
image/tiff.
- What Analyser shows you
- View EXIF, GPS, camera settings, histograms, dominant colours, OCR text, and AI-generation markers in JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, AVIF and JPEG XL images. Detects computational-photo wrappers (Apple Live Photo, Google and Samsung Motion Photo, Ultra HDR gain maps), opens THM movie-thumbnail files, and extracts every embedded image from multi-image files - all sizes in an ICO, both halves of an MPO stereo pair, and every page of a multi-page TIFF.
- Open a .TIFF file
- Drag a .TIFF file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.