In addition, uncompressed TIFFs are generally very large, and therefore not good for delivering and distributing over the internet. However, the image format is not widely supported by web browsers. The ability to store image data in a lossless format makes TIFF useful for archiving images. Image data in a TIFF can use lossy or lossless compression or no compression at all. Its main strengths are a highly flexible and platform-independent format that is supported by numerous image-processing applications. TIFF is primarily designed for the interchange of raster data (i.e. It allows for a wide range of different compression schemes and colour spaces. It can handle multiple images and data in a single file through the inclusion of ‘tags’ in the file header. It is a container format for storing all kinds of images. TIFF ( Tagged Image File Format) is one of the most popular and flexible of the current public domain file formats.

Zhang, Don Gourley, in Creating Digital Collections, 2009 TIFF

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