The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other "High-Resolution Image Format" formats to TIF without using software like Adobe Photoshop or a similar tool.
TIF (or TIFF) stands for Tagged Image File Format. It is an industry-standard raster image format heavily used in professional photography, desktop publishing, and scanning. Co-developed by Aldus and Adobe Systems, it supports lossless data compression like LZW, multiple pages, and complex color spaces like CMYK. You can open them using professional software like Adobe Photoshop or fast image viewers like XnView. Despite its high quality, .TIF is a terrible format for everyday use. Uncompressed or lossless .TIF files easily exceed 100MB per image. They are notorious for failing as email attachments. Furthermore, standard web browsers do not natively support them. If you try to upload a .TIF to a website, it will usually fail or break the page layout. To share these images or use them online, you must convert them. For web compatibility and massive file size reduction, convert .TIF to WEBP or JPG. If you need to keep transparency, convert to PNG. If you are sharing a multi-page scanned document, convert it to PDF. Drop your file here to view and convert it securely right in your browser.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your TIF file.
If you want to convert TIF file to DXF, DNG or CUR, you can use Adobe Photoshop or similar software from the "Lossless Raster Image Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to TIF, try Adobe Photoshop or another comparable tool in the "Lossless Raster Image Storage" category.
The TIF Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TIF converter.