Files with tiff extension are bitmap images in the Tagged Image File Format. Usually having the extension TIF, it's one of the more common graphics file types.
Software that open tiff file
TIFF file extension - Aldus Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) bitmap image
What is tiff file? How to open tiff files?
File extension TIFF is used for one of the common graphics format.
Tagged Image File Format - one of the most widely supported lossless (does not lose information during compression) file formats for storing bit-mapped images (both PCs and Macintosh computers).
TIFF graphics can be any resolution, in black and white, gray-scaled, or color. Is used un-compressed or LZW compressed.
Many different formats (Uncompressed, Huffman compressed, Jpeg,LZW,CCITT3/4, G3 FAX, G4 FAX, Packed Bits).
TIFF/IT is a standard for the exchange of digital adverts and complete pages. TIFF/IT files only contain bitmap data, no vector data. The files are not rasterized (although they could be) but they contain 256 graylevels per channel. TIFF/IT is the abbreviation of Tagged Image File Format/Image Technology.
As the name indicates, TIFF/IT is based on the well known TIFF standard. Because the TIFF/IT standard is very flexible, a subset of the standard was devised that is called TIFF/IT P1. P1 is limited to CMYK jobs. It does not support spot colours. When most people talk about TIFF/IT, they refer to the P1 version. A P2 version was in the works for a long time and may never make it, given the decreasing popularity of TIFF/IT.
TIFF/IT has only been successful in some markets like the exchange of adds for newspapers or magazines and the exchange of pages for magazine printers. In the past years, its role has largely been taken over by the PDF file format, more specifically PDF/X-1a.
From around 2000 to 2004 a number of companies selling TIFF/IT related products announced products in which TIFF/IT data were encapsulated in PDF files. This merging of these two formats, with PDF offering wide industry support and TIFF/IT’s proven track record of reliability, was an interesting concept but I don’t think any of these hybrid formats are still in widespread use. RIPs would frequently choke on such files and vendors were reluctant to actively support odd file formats.
MIME types:
image/tif
image/x-tif
image/tiff
image/x-tiff
application/tif
application/x-tif
application/tiff
application/x-tiff
Updated: January 5, 2025
The default software associated to open tiff file:
Company or developer:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe Photoshop is great photography editing software that offers numerous features, powerful tools and other breakthrough capabilities to offer users maximum image editing performance. The default file format used by Adobe Photoshop is PSD.
The latest version, Photoshop CC is available through the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service. The previous version was Photoshop CS6.
Company or developer:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe Photoshop for Mac is popular image editing application. It is able to create and compose images, edit photos and supports variety of image formats to open, export and convert.
The latest version, Photoshop CC is available through the new Adobe Creative Cloud suite. The previous version was Photoshop CS6.
Company or developer:
Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet
A free (for non-commercial purposes) powerful cross-platform media browser, viewer and converter. Compatible with more than 500 formats and also supports export to 70 different file formats. It works on Windows, Linux and macOS (OS X).
List of software applications associated to the .tiff file extension
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and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open tiff file, edit tiff file, convert tiff file, view tiff file, play tiff file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
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Software that open tiff file - Aldus Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) bitmap image
Programs supporting the exension tiff on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open tiff file action.
Microsoft Windows:
Main software associated with tiff file by default:
Adobe Photoshop
Other suggested software:
ERDAS IMAGINE
CorelDraw Graphics Suite
Multi-Page TIFF Editor
PhotoOnWeb
Microsoft Paint
Picture Information Extractor
PhotoFiltre Studio
Artweaver
SketchBook
Easy-PhotoPrint EX
Adobe Fireworks (obsolete/discontinued)
Apple macOS / Mac OS X:
Main software associated with tiff file by default:
Adobe Photoshop for Mac
Other suggested software:
Preview
The Panorama Factory for Mac
SketchBook for Mac
Fotor Photo Editor for Mac
Hydra
Flare for Mac
Paint X Lite
Adobe Fireworks for Mac (obsolete/discontinued)
