Sample TIFF Files — Download Test TIFF Images (Uncompressed and LZW)
Tagged Image File Format · .tiff, .tif · MIME type image/tiff
Download a sample TIFF file — an uncompressed 640×480 image of about 1 MB, an LZW-compressed 1280×720 file, and an uncompressed 1920×1080 file of about 6 MB. TIFF is the format scanners, print shops and document-imaging systems produce, and it is the one most likely to break a web upload form because the files are large and browsers cannot display them.
Created by Aldus in 1986 and now maintained by Adobe, TIFF is a flexible container: it can hold uncompressed, LZW, ZIP or JPEG-compressed data, multiple pages, layers, 16-bit channels and CMYK. That flexibility is exactly why a viewer that opens one TIFF may fail on another.
Download sample TIFF files
| File | Details | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
sample-image-640x480-uncompressed.tiff | 640 × 480 | 922 KB | |
sample-image-1920x1080-lzw.tiff | 1920 × 1080 | 2.1 MB | |
sample-image-1280x720-uncompressed.tiff | 1280 × 720 | 2.8 MB |
Need one of every images format? Download the images sample pack (1.3 MB, one small file of every images format (10 files)).
Use these files from the command line or CI
Every URL is stable and CORS-open. Pin the SHA-256 in your test and you will know the moment a fixture changes.
# Download one file curl -O https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/images/tiff/sample-image-640x480-uncompressed.tiff # Verify it (SHA-256 is listed for every file above) shasum -a 256 sample-image-640x480-uncompressed.tiff # Machine-readable index of every sample file curl https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/index.json | jq '.files[] | select(.format=="tiff")'
TIFF format at a glance
| Full name | Tagged Image File Format |
|---|---|
| Extensions | .tiff, .tif |
| MIME type | image/tiff |
| Introduced | Aldus, 1986; TIFF 6.0 spec 1992 (Adobe) |
| Compression | None, LZW, ZIP/Deflate, PackBits, JPEG |
| Colour | Up to 16 bits/channel, RGB, CMYK, grayscale, bilevel |
| Multi-page | Yes |
| Browser support | None (Safari only, partially) |
| Magic bytes | 49 49 2A 00 (little-endian) or 4D 4D 00 2A |
What people test with sample TIFF files
- Scanner and document-management uploads
- Server-side conversion (TIFF → PDF or JPG) since browsers cannot preview TIFF
- Memory and timeout limits with large uncompressed images
- Testing that LZW and uncompressed variants are both decoded
Frequently asked questions
Why won't my browser display a TIFF file?
No major browser except Safari renders TIFF, because it was never a web format. Web applications that accept TIFF uploads normally convert to JPG, PNG or PDF on the server. Use these files to confirm that conversion happens and that the original is still downloadable.
Is TIFF lossless?
Usually. Uncompressed, LZW and ZIP TIFFs are lossless; TIFF can also wrap JPEG compression, which is lossy. Our uncompressed and LZW samples are both lossless — decoding either should give pixel-identical results.
Are these TIFF files safe to download?
Yes. Every file is generated by our own open script from scratch — nothing is scraped or user-uploaded — and contains no scripts, macros or executables. The SHA-256 of each file is published on this page so you can verify what you received.
Can I use the sample TIFF files commercially?
Yes. They are free for any purpose, including commercial products, test suites, demos and redistribution, with no attribution required. There is nothing to license and no one to ask.
Can I hotlink these files or use them in CI?
Yes. Every link is a stable direct URL over HTTPS with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and long cache headers, so curl, wget, fetch() and test runners can pull them directly. A JSON index of every file is linked from each page (see the command-line section).
Related sample files
Free tools that work with TIFF
- Image Converter — Convert images between PNG, JPG, and WebP right in your browser. Files never leave your device.
- PDF Converter — Turn a PDF into images or text, or combine images into a PDF — free, in your browser, no upload.
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Uploads, conversions, previews, document processing and media workflows are the kind of production systems Pine & Birch designs and runs for clients — which is why we needed these files in the first place.
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