What is the difference between .rast and .tiff?
- Extension
- .rast
- .tiff
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sun Microsystems
- Adobe Systems
- Description
- The Sun Rasterfile, identified by the extension .rast, is a bitmap image file format originally developed for use on SunOS by Sun Microsystems. It is designed to store color and monochromatic raster images, such as scanned photographs and digital artwork. The format supports various color depths, including 1, 8, 24, and 32 bits per pixel, allowing for a range of color representations from simple black and white to full true color images. Despite its origins on Sun systems, the format can be used on various platforms and is supported by a variety of image editing and viewing software.
- 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/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor
- image/tiff
- Sample
- sample.tiff
- Wikipedia
- .tiff on Wikipedia