What is the difference between .icns and .tiff?
- Extension
- .icns
- .tiff
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Apple
- Adobe Systems
- Description
- It is an icon image file used to show application icons in the macOS Finder and macOS dock. It contains one or several .PNG images and it supports 1bit and 8-bit alpha channels.
- A TIFF file is a graphics container that stores raster images. It may contain high-quality graphics that support color depths from 1 to 24-bit and supports both lossy and lossless compression. TIFF files also support multiple layers and pages.
- MIME Type
- image/x-icns
- image/tiff
- Sample
- sample.tiff
- Wikipedia
- .icns on Wikipedia
- .tiff on Wikipedia