whats a TIF file?

TIF is a Tagged Image File, and used to be the standard format for scanned images. Scan the document, them email the file as an attachment...

TIFF is a Tagged Image File Format

Basically for compression hence mail attachment etc where we need compression and also a multi-platform supporting format.

TIFF is the format of choice for archiving important images. TIFF is THE leading commercial and professional image standard. TIFF is the most universal and most widely supported format across all platforms, Mac, Windows, Unix. Data up to 48 bits is supported.

TIFF supports most color spaces, RGB, CMYK, YCbCr, etc. TIFF is a flexible format with many options. The data contains tags to declare what type of data follows. New types are easy to invent, and this versatility can cause incompatibly, but about any program anywhere will handle the standard TIFF types that we might encounter. TIFF can store data with bytes in either PC or Mac order (Intel or Motorola CPU chips differ in this way). This choice improves efficiency (speed), but all major programs today can read TIFF either way, and TIFF files can be exchanged without problem.

Several compression formats are used with TIF. TIF with G3 compression is the universal standard for fax and multi-page line art documents.

TIFF image files optionally use LZW lossless compression. Lossless means there is no quality loss due to compression. Lossless guarantees that you can always read back exactly what you thought you saved, bit-for-bit identical, without data corruption. This is a critical factor for archiving master copies of important images. Most image compression formats are lossless, with JPG and Kodak PhotoCD PCD files being the main exceptions.

Nice job Neha copying and pasting from someones website, FYI what you did is considered plagiarism and is illegal. You copied word for word from http://www.scantips.com/basics9t.html

Anyways...

I use photoshop for anything to do with images. It makes it very easy to convert certain file types to others. I agree that .tif is a tad bit big and jpeg should be used instead if able. Some places only accept certain file types and are very strict about it.

http://filext.com/file-extension/TIF

Its an image file, just save the file as "filename.tif"

you say you have to "send" it?

not via e-mail i trust?

tiff files are huge!!!!

print them of and send them letter post

they will probably arrive quicker!!!

if you need to send this type of picture, convert it to a jpeg which will be a tenth of the size!

i think i may have answered a question of yours earlier about sending photos in an e-mail - if i'm right, no wonder it takes ages if you are sending in this format!

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