1099 Tagged Image File Format TIFF Image (Raster) Full The Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) is a raster image format originally developed by the Aldus Corporation, primarily for use in scanning and desktop publishing. When Adobe Systems Incorporated purchased Aldus in 1994, they acquired the rights to the TIFF format and have maintained it since then. TIFF files comprise three sections: an Image File Header (IFH), an Image File Directory (IFD), and the image data. TIFF files can contain multiple images (multi-page TIFF), and each image has a separate IFD. The IFH always appears at the beginning of the file, and is immediately followed by a pointer to the first IFD. The IFD contains metadata which describes the associated image, stored as a series of tags. The IFD also contains a pointer to the actual image data. TIFF supports colour depths from 1 bit to 24 bit (e.g. monochrome to true colour), and a wide range of compression types (RLE, LZW, CCITT Group 3 and Group 4, and JPEG), as well as uncompressed data. Little-endian (Intel) and Big-endian (Motorola) 01 Aug 1986 1 Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives 07 Jul 2011 09 Dec 2021 fmt/353 PUID image/tiff MIME public.tiff Apple Uniform Type Identifier tif File extension tiff File extension 9 TIFF generic (little-endian) Header: II* 0x00 1 Absolute from BOF 0 49492A00 10 TIFF generic (big-endian) Header: MM 0x00 * 1 Absolute from BOF 0 4D4D002A Has lower priority than 672 Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) Has lower priority than 673 Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) Has lower priority than 752 Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) Has lower priority than 795 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Has lower priority than 797 Tagged Image File Format for Electronic Photography (TIFF/EP) Has lower priority than 798 Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) Has lower priority than 799 Tagged Image File Format for Internet Fax (TIFF-FX) Has lower priority than 916 Sony ARW RAW Image File Has lower priority than 917 Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image File Has lower priority than 927 Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File Has lower priority than 1223 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Has lower priority than 1224 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Has lower priority than 1225 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Has lower priority than 1384 Canon RAW Has lower priority than 1440 Epson Raw Image Format Has lower priority than 1529 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Has lower priority than 1867 Phase One IIQ Raw Image Has lower priority than 1868 Hasselblad 3FR Raw Image Has lower priority than 1870 Leaf Mosaic Raw Image Has lower priority than 1936 Sony SR2 RAW Image File Has lower priority than 1937 Sony ARW RAW Image File Has lower priority than 2130 CorelCHART Document Has lower priority than 2131 CorelCHART Document Has lower priority than 2302 XIFF (Xerox Image File Format) Has lower priority than 2303 XIFF (Xerox Image File Format) Has lower priority than 2631 Pentax PEF Image File Has lower priority than 2693 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Has lower priority than 2694 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Has lower priority than 2804 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Has priority over 687 MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3 Is supertype of 798 Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) Is supertype of 1223 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Is supertype of 1224 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Is supertype of 1225 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Is supertype of 1529 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Is supertype of 2693 Digital Negative Format (DNG) Is supertype of 2694 Digital Negative Format (DNG)