The GIMP photo editing software includes the ability to convert your JPEG image files into many other file types, including a TIFF file. A wide variety of file formats are compatible with GIMP, ...

What are the characteristics of a TIFF File? The TIF format is an old graphic format, which makes it possible to store very large (more than 4 GB compressed) bitmap images (raster) losing quality and ...

The free open-source Hide & Reveal program supports TIFF, as well as BMP and PNG file formats, and lets you hide information in a file, and then load the file and extract the information.

You'd only see a real difference with really really large files. If you were pulling them over the network, then compressed files might be faster, depending on the file size, network speeds, and ...