What is TIF file format?
TIF or TIFF is short for “Tagged Image File Format”. It was designed primarily for raster data interchange. Its main strengths are a highly flexible and platform-independent format which is supported by numerous image processing applications. TIFF can contain multiple kind of picture formats, like uncompressed, LZW and Fax 3 & 4 formats. The header section of TIFF-file contains the information about the image, like the color depth, color encoding and compression type. Because of the flexibility, very different levels of image quality can be produced with TIFF. The current version is TIFF 6.0.
