TIFF: The Professional Choice for Printing
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) is a high-quality raster format used primarily in the photography and printing industries. It supports lossless compression and multiple layers.
TIFF is the “no-compromise” format. Unlike JPG, which loses quality every time you save it, a TIFF preserves every single pixel perfectly. For example, when a museum digitizes a famous painting, they save it as a TIFF to ensure that the archival record is 100% accurate to the original.
Frequently Asked Questions
TIFF uses LZW or ZIP compression, which shrinks the file size without removing any pixel data or reducing image quality.
For quality, yes. For file size, no. TIFF files are much larger, making them unsuitable for the web or email attachments.
Yes. Modern TIFF files can save layers just like Photoshop files, though they become very large and may not be readable by all software.
Printers love TIFF because it supports CMYK color perfectly and never contains the “compression artifacts” (blurriness) found in JPGs.
Generally, no. Most browsers don’t support the native display of TIFF files. You should convert them to JPG, PNG, or WebP for the web.
TIFF supports 16-bit and even 32-bit color, allowing for millions more color variations than the standard 8-bit JPG.
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