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		umanwizard on Sept 13, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Libtiff goes offline IIRC, it's used a lot for black-and-white images without a lot of photographic detail (schematics, etc.)

tomc1985 on Sept 13, 2016 [–]

Digital negative storage for photography

Texture data for some videogames

Portable format for layered composites (a la Photoshop)

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