Editing TIFF (section)

{{short description|Series of image file formats}}
{{redirect|TIF|other uses|TIF (disambiguation)|and|TIFF (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox file format
| name          = TIFF
| icon          = [[File:TIFF wordmark logo.svg|class=skin-invert-image|frameless]]
| iconcaption   = Wordmark of the ''TIFF Revision 6.0''
| screenshot    = 
| screenshot_size = 
| caption =
| _noextcode    = on
| extensions    = {{code|.tiff}}, {{code|.tif}}
| _nomimecode   = on
| mime          = {{plainlist|
* {{code|image/tiff}}
* {{code|image/tiff-fx}}
}}
| type code     = TIFF
| uniform type  = public.tiff
| magic         = 49 49 2A 00 or 4D 4D 00 2A
| owner         = [[Aldus Corporation]], now [[Adobe Inc.]]
| released      = {{start date and age|1986|09|12|df=yes}}
| latest release version = TIFF 6.0
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1992|06|03|df=yes}}<br />TIFF Supplement 2 / {{Start date and age|2002|03|22|df=yes}}
| genre         = [[Image file formats|Image file format]]
| container for = 
| contained by  = 
| extended from = tiff
| extended to   = [[Exchangeable image file format|Exif]], [[Design rule for Camera File system|DCF]], [[Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography|TIFF/EP]], TIFF/IT, TIFF-FX, [[GeoTIFF]]
| standard      = 
| url           = {{url|https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000022.shtml}}
}}

'''Tag Image File Format'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/file-types/image/raster/tiff-file.html |title=What are TIFF files and how do you open them? |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=adobe.com |publisher=Adobe, Inc. |access-date=November 3, 2023 |quote=A TIFF, which stands for Tag Image File Format, is a computer file used to store raster graphics and image information.}}</ref> or '''Tagged Image File Format''',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/file-types/image/comparison/tiff-vs-png.html |title=PNG vs. TIFF: Which is better? |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=adobe.com |publisher=Adobe, Inc. |access-date=November 4, 2023 |quote=TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) files are common in publishing, photo editing, and graphic design.}}</ref> commonly known by the abbreviations '''TIFF''' or '''TIF''', is an [[image file format]] for storing [[raster graphics]] images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry,<ref name="sgi">{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats |edition=Second |date=April 1996 |first1=James D. |last1=Murray |first2=William |last2=vanRyper |isbn=1-56592-161-5 |publisher=[[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly]] |url=https://archive.org/details/mac_Graphics_File_Formats_Second_Edition_1996 |access-date=2014-03-07 |url-access=registration }}</ref> and photographers. TIFF is widely supported by [[image scanner|scanning]], [[FAX|faxing]], [[word processor|word processing]], [[optical character recognition]], image manipulation, [[desktop publishing]], and page-layout applications.<ref>TIFF was chosen as the native format for raster graphics in the [[NeXTstep]] operating system; this TIFF support carried over into [[Mac OS X]].</ref> The format was created by the [[Aldus Corporation]] for use in desktop publishing. It published the latest version 6.0 in 1992, subsequently updated with an [[Adobe Systems]] copyright after the latter acquired Aldus in 1994. Several Aldus or Adobe technical notes have been published with minor extensions to the format, and several specifications have been based on TIFF 6.0, including [[Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography|TIFF/EP]] (ISO 12234-2), TIFF/IT (ISO 12639),<ref name="TIFF/IT">{{cite web
|title=TIFF/IT ISO/IEC 12639
|publisher=ISO
|year=1998
|url=http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=2181
}}</ref><ref name="TIFF/IT2">{{cite web
|title=TIFF/IT for Image Technology
|publisher=The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress
|date=2006-10-03
|url=http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000072.shtml
}}</ref><ref name="prepressure-tiffit">{{cite web |url=http://www.prepressure.com/library/file-formats/tiffit |title=The TIFF/IT file format |access-date=2011-02-19}}</ref> TIFF-F (RFC 2306) and TIFF-FX (RFC 3949).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3949 |title=File Format for Internet Fax |year=2005 |quote=This file format specification is commonly known as TIFF for Fax eXtended (TIFF-FX). |access-date=2011-02-19}}</ref>