How to open Mac image formats on Windows

"TIFF is a strange beast. It's not actually an image format; it's a container into which files go. A TIFF can contain several files -- perhaps a high-resolution JPEG, a low-resolution thumbnail, and a text file that documents them.

That said, there has been some quasi-standardization over time. Most image apps agree on a relatively small number of image formats that can go into a TIFF. But there are still some problems. In particular, there are ""Mac TIFF"" and ""Windows TIFF"" files whose contents are sometimes not entirely compatible due to big-endian, little-endian issues.

I haven't run into this problem recently, however, but it was huge about 10 years ago."