TIFF is the format print shops and archives still ask for
TIFF still runs on the same specification, TIFF 6.0 from June 1992, now owned by Adobe. Prepress software and archive systems were built around it long before AVIF existed; the AVIF 1.0 spec only dates from February 2019. The US Library of Congress lists TIFF first among its preferred formats for digital photographs. So when a printer or an archive rejects your AVIF, TIFF is usually what they want instead.
One thing a TIFF cannot do is restore detail. AVIF is lossy in normal use, and the encoder already threw away fine texture when the file was saved. Converting to TIFF stores the remaining pixels in a large container; it does not recover what was lost.
How to convert AVIF to TIFF
- Upload the AVIF file. You can add up to 5 files, each up to 300 MB.
- Choose TIFF as the output.
- Download the TIFF when the conversion finishes on our servers.
Expect a much larger file
TIFF files are usually many times the size of the AVIF they came from, because TIFF doesn't use the AV1 compression that makes AVIF small. That is fine for a print or archive copy and wrong for email or a web page. If you need something small, AVIF to JPG or AVIF to WebP is the better pick. The TIFF hub covers conversions out of TIFF, and the AVIF converter lists all nine targets for AVIF.