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TIFF is a very hairy animal, but I'm happy to report that JPEG XL will be able to offer most of the functionality TIFF is currently used for:

- multi-layer (overlays), with named layers

- high bit depth

- metadata (the JXL file format will support not just Exif/XMP but also JUMBF, which gives you all kinds of already-standardized metadata, e.g. for 360)

- arbitrary extra channels

All that with state-of-the-art compression, both lossy and lossless.



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