What is the difference between .sid and .tiff?
- Extension
- .sid
- .tiff
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Extensis
- Adobe Systems
- Description
- Image created using Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) compression, which was developed by Extensis for compressing large images; commonly used to partition and store large Geographic Information Systems (GIS) images.
- 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-mrsid
- image/tiff
- Sample
- sample.sid
- sample.tiff
- Wikipedia
- .sid on Wikipedia
- .tiff on Wikipedia