diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java
index 781df46a..b52d977b 100755
--- a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java
@@ -435,6 +435,11 @@ public class TIFFImageReader extends ImageReaderBase {
                                     return ImageTypeSpecifiers.createBanded(cs, new int[] {0, 1, 2, 3}, new int[] {0, 0, 0, 0}, dataType, true, extraSamples[0] == 1);
                             }
                         }
+                        else if (bitsPerSample == 4) {
+                            long[] extraSamples = getValueAsLongArray(TIFF.TAG_EXTRA_SAMPLES, "ExtraSamples", true);
+
+                            return ImageTypeSpecifier.createPacked(cs, 0xF000, 0xF00, 0xF0, 0xF, DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT, extraSamples[0] == 1);
+                        }
                         // TODO: More samples might be ok, if multiple alpha or unknown samples
                     default:
                         throw new IIOException(String.format("Unsupported SamplesPerPixels/BitsPerSample combination for RGB TIFF (expected 3/8, 4/8, 3/16 or 4/16): %d/%d", samplesPerPixel, bitsPerSample));
@@ -714,7 +719,8 @@ public class TIFFImageReader extends ImageReaderBase {
 
         int tilesAcross = (width + stripTileWidth - 1) / stripTileWidth;
         int tilesDown = (height + stripTileHeight - 1) / stripTileHeight;
-        WritableRaster rowRaster = rawType.getColorModel().createCompatibleWritableRaster(stripTileWidth, 1);
+//        WritableRaster rowRaster = rawType.getColorModel().createCompatibleWritableRaster(stripTileWidth, 1);
+        WritableRaster rowRaster = rawType.createBufferedImage(stripTileWidth, 1).getRaster();
         Rectangle clip = new Rectangle(srcRegion);
         int row = 0;
 
@@ -1563,17 +1569,19 @@ public class TIFFImageReader extends ImageReaderBase {
         return value;
     }
 
-    private ICC_Profile getICCProfile() {
+    private ICC_Profile getICCProfile() throws IOException {
         Entry entry = currentIFD.getEntryById(TIFF.TAG_ICC_PROFILE);
 
         if (entry != null) {
             byte[] value = (byte[]) entry.getValue();
-            ICC_Profile profile = ICC_Profile.getInstance(value);
 
             try {
+                // WEIRDNESS: Reading profile from InputStream is somehow more compatible
+                // than reading from byte array (chops off extra bytes + validates profile).
+                ICC_Profile profile = ICC_Profile.getInstance(new ByteArrayInputStream(value));
                 return ColorSpaces.validateProfile(profile);
             }
-            catch (CMMException ignore) {
+            catch (CMMException | IllegalArgumentException ignore) {
                 processWarningOccurred("Ignoring broken/incompatible ICC profile: " + ignore.getMessage());
             }
         }
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReaderTest.java b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReaderTest.java
index f5e02935..a6cd4b47 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReaderTest.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReaderTest.java
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ public class TIFFImageReaderTest extends ImageReaderAbstractTest<TIFFImageReader
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/signed-integral-8bit.tif"), new Dimension(439, 167)), // Gray, 8 bit *signed* integral
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/floatingpoint-32bit.tif"), new Dimension(300, 100)), // RGB, 32 bit floating point
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/general-cmm-error.tif"), new Dimension(1181, 860)), // RGB, LZW compression with broken/incompatible ICC profile
+                new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/lzw-rgba-padded-icc.tif"), new Dimension(19, 11)), // RGBA, LZW compression with padded ICC profile
+                new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/lzw-rgba-4444.tif"), new Dimension(64, 64)), // RGBA, LZW compression with UINT 4/4/4/4 + gray 2/2
                 // CCITT
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ccitt/group3_1d.tif"), new Dimension(6, 4)), // B/W, CCITT T4 1D
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ccitt/group3_1d_fill.tif"), new Dimension(6, 4)), // B/W, CCITT T4 1D
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/lzw-rgba-4444.tif b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/lzw-rgba-4444.tif
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diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/lzw-rgba-padded-icc.tif b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/lzw-rgba-padded-icc.tif
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