what is a .tif and can i convert it.

plcook

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I am not sure what happened to my computer other than it is old. I run windows NT. I have some .tif files and would like to get them converted to .JPG or something.

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That’s the extension for tiff files. There’s prob tons of commercial products to do that if you google.
If you’re not afraid of the command line, use ImageMagick. The instructions are fairly simple.
If you’re more of a GUI guy, use XnView (freeware). It’s an image browser, but it has excellent conversion utilities bundled. Open the browser, then select all the images (ctrl-A usually), right click, select 'batch processing' and for format pick jpg and click on options to adjust the quality settings to your liking.

For more info read the wikipedia entry on TIFF