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TIFF

Tagged Image File Format, a type of file format, is a popular full-colored bitmapped format often used for high resolution photographic images and is supported by both Mac and PC programs.

Tint

When a color is mixed with white, gray, or black the results are called tints, shades, and tones.

A tint is a color which has been mixed with white.

Tints can expand a color's expressive range by dulling its immediate impact and creating subtle variations of hue and meaning.

TWAIN

An acquire interface developed by a consortium of software developers as a standard for communications between scanners, imaging devices, and digital cameras and the computer software. Twain allows you to import (acquire) an image into your software. This is the interface of choice on the Window's platform.

Importing an image using the TWAIN interface in Photoshop