What is the format of tif?

TIFF is a flexible image format. Its full name is the tag image file format, and its file extension is TIF or TIFF. The format supports 256 colors, 24-bit true colors, 32-bit colors, 48-bit colors and other color bits, as well as RGB, CMYK, YCbCr and other color modes, and supports multiple platforms.

TIFF files can be uncompressed, large or compressed, and support various compression methods, such as RAW, RLE, LZW, JPEG, CCITT3 and 4. This format can contain lossy compressed and uncompressed image data. In addition, this format also allows vector graphics.

TIFF image format

It is a lossless compression format (the highest compression ratio can only be 2 ~ 3 times), which can keep the color and level of the original image, but it takes up a lot of space. For example, a 2-megapixel image occupies almost 6MB of storage capacity, so TIFF is usually used for more professional purposes, such as book publishing and posters, and is rarely used on the Internet.