While Real Studio has built in features for loading and saving Tiff picture files, this plugin gives you much more features:

• Read and Write Tiff Images
• Supports multiple images in one tiff file
• Read only header option.
• Read and write metadata values like Version, Software, Make, DateTime or DocumentName.
• Handle errors/warnings when reading/writing images.
• Supports RGB, CMYK, Gray, Palette and B/W color spaces.
• Read all colors spaces as RGB for display.
• Read/write raw scanlines
• Read preview from huge images
• Read image from string and write image to string
• Read/write ICC profile and XMP Metadata