.TIFF File Format
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| File Description | TIF, short for TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), is a high-quality graphics format developed by Aldus (now Adobe Systems, who holds the copyright). It's widely used by image manipulation, publishing and page layout applications due to its high quality and flexible options. TIFF can handle images and data in a single file by using the header tags and extensions. This way, A TIFF file can either contains data without compression, lossless compression like LZW or RLE, or lossy JPEG compression. However, the baseline TIFF does not include layers, or compression with JPEG or LZW. The typical file extension for TIFF is .TIF. |
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| How to Open .TIFF Files |
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| TIFF Topics | File Extensions TIFF Frequently Asked Questions None. |
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| Related Books | The Digital Photography Book | The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Taking Photos |
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When you double click TIFF files on computer, the associated program will be launched to open the selected TIFF file. But you can change it to any program at your pleasure. a) Select a program to open TIFF files on WindowsRight-click on the TIFF file and go through 'Open with' > 'Choose default program'. In the pop-up windows, choose a program as the TIFF file opener. If you decide to always open TIFF files with the program, only check the option 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file'.
b) Select another application to open TIFF files on MacFirst Get Info about any one of TIFF files by right-clicking or Command-I, and click 'Open with' arrow to choose a program to start your TIFF file. Click 'Change All' button to set the selected application as the default TIFF file opener app.
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How to select a program to open TIFF files?
