How To Open TIFF Files

DESCRIPTION: A TIFF file is a Tagged Image File Format owned by Adobe Systems.

A TIFF file is an acronym for a Tagged Image File Format, a lossy or lossless bitmap image format originally developed by Aldus Corporation and now owned by Adobe Systems. TIFF files do not contain vector data and are not rasterized. They do contain bitmap data, and data for grayscale and color. They can be reduced in size without loss of data by the use of LZW compression. The format was originally introduced in 1984 as a compromise format for flatbed scanner manufacturers to use a common format instead of propriety software. The format was last modified in 1992. Today it is one of the most popular imaging formats around, used by graphics and publication programs, photographers, fax machines, scanners, OCR applications, and word-processor programs. TIFF files normally carry the TIF file extension.