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TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) was created in the 1980s as a standard for high-quality image storage and was quickly adopted by the professional photography and printing industries. TIFF supports multiple color depths (8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit per channel), CMYK color mode for print, lossless compression, and multiple image layers in a single file.

A 16-bit TIFF captures 65,536 tones per color channel compared to JPG's 256. This matters enormously in post-processing — editing shadows, highlights, and colors in a 16-bit TIFF produces smooth gradients, while the same edits on an 8-bit JPG show banding and posterization. TIFF is the standard for RAW photo exports from Lightroom, Capture One, and professional scanners.

Convert TIFF to JPG for: sharing finished photos via email, uploading to websites or social media, delivering images to clients who do not need to edit them, and reducing storage space for archived finished work.

Keep TIFF for: any image you plan to edit again, images used in print production (printers often require TIFF), originals from a scanner or camera RAW export, and any image where you need maximum editing flexibility in the future.

The professional workflow is: shoot RAW, export to TIFF for editing, export to JPG for delivery. Never overwrite the TIFF with a JPG — the JPG cannot be converted back to TIFF without quality loss.

TIFF files are notoriously large. An uncompressed full-frame (24-megapixel) TIFF from a RAW export is typically 70-140MB. A 16-bit TIFF from a medium-format scanner can exceed 500MB. Converting to JPG at 92% quality reduces this to 5-15MB — a 90-96% size reduction.

This makes TIFF to JPG conversion essential for email delivery (most email services cap at 25MB total), web uploading (image hosts typically limit to 20-30MB per file), and cloud sharing where storage costs and upload times matter.