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PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless format that supports transparency. Perfect for logos, icons, and graphics with sharp edges.

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TIFF format guide

Converting from TIFF: a container, not a format, and what that means for conversion

Why two .tif files can be very different things, and which destination fits depending on where yours came from

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) appeared in 1986 to bring order to the scanners of the day, each with its own proprietary format. The solution was a tag-based design: the file uses metadata to describe how its own data is stored, rather than imposing a single way of doing it.

That design win is also its great practical complication. TIFF is not a format, it is a container: two files with a .tif extension can be compressed with different algorithms, have different colour depths, use different colour spaces and hold a different number of pages. It is why one program opens a TIFF happily and another rejects it.

What can actually be inside your .tif

Aspect	Possible variants	Effect when converting
Compression	None, LZW, ZIP/Deflate, PackBits, JPEG inside the TIFF, or CCITT G3/G4 for black-and-white fax	If JPEG was inside, the image was already lossy before you converted anything
Depth	8, 16 and even 32 bits per channel	Common destination formats work at 8 bits: 16-bit files are truncated
Colour space	RGB, greyscale, CMYK, Lab, bitonal	A CMYK TIFF comes from a print workflow; moving to RGB shifts the colours
Pages	One or many — very common in document scanning and fax	Still image formats store one: nothing remains of the other pages
Alpha channel	Optional, with real transparency	Lost when going to JPG or BMP

⚠️ Multi-page TIFF is the most frequent surprise. Document scanners and fax servers routinely produce a single .tif with every page inside. Converting it to JPG or PNG gives you one image — the first page. If you need them all, the right destination is a PDF, not an image.

CMYK: the detail that throws the colours off

TIFFs that come from a print shop or a prepress workflow are usually in CMYK, the four-ink colour space, not RGB. Screens work in RGB, so converting means translating between two different ways of describing colour.

That translation is not exact: there are printable colours a screen cannot show, and the other way round. Typically heavily saturated tones dull slightly when moved to RGB. It is not a conversion error; the two spaces simply do not cover the same range.

Which format should you move your TIFF to?

To JPG — sharing and sending

The practical option when the TIFF is too heavy to attach or upload. The size reduction is enormous, at the cost of lossy compression.

To PNG — losing nothing

Keeps the exact pixels and transparency if there was any. A good choice for scanned documents, text or graphics where sharpness matters.

To WebP — publishing on the web

Shrinks much further than PNG while keeping quality and transparency. The natural destination if the image is headed for a page.

To BMP — legacy software

Only if something explicitly requires it. You lose every TIFF advantage and the file will be enormous.

💡 If your TIFF is a scanned document — text, forms, invoices — avoid JPG. JPEG artefacts attack precisely the sharp edges of letters, making text harder to read and degrading any later OCR. Lossless PNG or WebP are far better for that.

Why your TIFF is so heavy

TIFF is used where the priority is preserving information, not saving space: document archiving, prepress, professional photography, and scientific and medical imaging. A high-resolution scan at 16 bits per channel with lossless compression takes what it takes precisely because nothing was discarded along the way.

That is also the reason to keep the original TIFF after converting: it is your master copy. The converted files are working copies for sending, publishing or sharing.

Converting your TIFF files step by step

Work out where the file came from

A document-scanner TIFF, a print-shop TIFF and a professional camera TIFF hold very different things inside, and that determines the right destination.

Check whether it has multiple pages

If it does and you need them all, converting to an image will not do: you need a PDF.

Add your TIFF files

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Everything happens in your browser. Keep the original TIFF: it is your lossless copy.

None. They are the same format under two extensions, from the old MS-DOS three-character limit. You can rename one to the other without touching the file.

Because it is built to preserve information, not to save space. It usually combines high resolution, 16 bits per channel and lossless compression — or none at all. That is normal in professional scanning, prepress and archiving.

Still image formats store only one image, so you get the first page. If you need to keep the whole document, convert to PDF rather than to an image.

Almost certainly because the TIFF was in CMYK, the print colour space. Screens use RGB and the translation between the two is not exact: the most saturated tones usually dull a little. It is inherent to the change of colour space.

No, as long as your TIFF was 8 bits per channel. Both are lossless formats and the pixels are preserved exactly. If the TIFF was 16-bit, depth will be reduced to 8, which is what PNG handles in practice.

Not with this tool: here the image format is converted, not its content. Extracting the text requires optical character recognition (OCR), which is a different process.

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