What is TIFF format?
TIFF is an uncompressed file format, meaning all the information from the scanner, for each individual pixel is preserved when it’s saved as a TIFF. The lack of compression results in extremely large files but it is the best format for editing, and saving the original digital images and for printing gallery-quality prints. Your images are scanned and enhanced in TIFF Format then burned onto your disc in JPEG format unless otherwise requested. I highly recommend keeping a valuable TIFF “Master Copy” of your images for premium quality prints, and for safe keeping in a firebox or safe deposit box. The TIFF Master Copy is the negative of your scanned images. JPEG and TIFF File Formats are both industry standard file formats, readable in Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems.
TIFF format is the most popular and versatile raster data format in the world today. TIFF is a format for storage, transfer, display, and printing of raster images, such as clipart, logotypes, scanned documents. Today, TIFF is being used for storage of map information, too. More information on TIFF can be found at Joris Van Damme’s TIFF Page.
