diff --git a/imageio/imageio-core/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/color/DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel.java b/imageio/imageio-core/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/color/DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db3a1bd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/imageio/imageio-core/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/color/DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel.java
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+package com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.color;
+
+import java.awt.*;
+import java.awt.image.*;
+
+import static com.twelvemonkeys.lang.Validate.notNull;
+
+/**
+ * This class represents a hybrid between an {@link IndexColorModel} and a {@link ComponentColorModel},
+ * having both a color map and a full, discrete alpha channel.
+ * The color map entries are assumed to be fully opaque and should have no transparent index.
+ * <p>
+ * ColorSpace will always be the default sRGB color space (as with {@code IndexColorModel}).
+ * <p>
+ * Component order is always P, A, where P is a palette index, and A is the alpha value.
+ *
+ * @see IndexColorModel
+ * @see ComponentColorModel
+ */
+public final class DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel extends ColorModel {
+    // Our IndexColorModel delegate
+    private final IndexColorModel icm;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a {@code DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel}, delegating color map look-ups
+     * to the given {@code IndexColorModel}.
+     *
+     * @param icm The {@code IndexColorModel} delegate. Color map entries are assumed to be
+     *            fully opaque, any transparency or transparent index will be ignored.
+     */
+    public DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(final IndexColorModel icm) {
+        super(
+                notNull(icm, "IndexColorModel").getPixelSize() * 2,
+                new int[] {icm.getPixelSize(), icm.getPixelSize(), icm.getPixelSize(), icm.getPixelSize()},
+                icm.getColorSpace(), true, false, Transparency.TRANSLUCENT, icm.getTransferType()
+        );
+
+        this.icm = icm;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final int getRed(final int pixel) {
+        return icm.getRed(pixel);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final int getGreen(final int pixel) {
+        return icm.getGreen(pixel);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final int getBlue(final int pixel) {
+        return icm.getBlue(pixel);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final int getAlpha(final int pixel) {
+        return (int) ((((float) pixel) / ((1 << getComponentSize(3))-1)) * 255.0f + 0.5f);
+    }
+
+    private int getSample(final Object inData, final int index) {
+        int pixel;
+
+        switch (transferType) {
+            case DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE:
+                byte bdata[] = (byte[]) inData;
+                pixel = bdata[index] & 0xff;
+                break;
+            case DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT:
+                short sdata[] = (short[]) inData;
+                pixel = sdata[index] & 0xffff;
+                break;
+            case DataBuffer.TYPE_INT:
+                int idata[] = (int[]) inData;
+                pixel = idata[index];
+                break;
+            default:
+                throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This method has not been implemented for transferType " + transferType);
+        }
+
+        return pixel;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final int getRed(final Object inData) {
+        return getRed(getSample(inData, 0));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final int getGreen(final Object inData) {
+        return getGreen(getSample(inData, 0));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final int getBlue(final Object inData) {
+        return getBlue(getSample(inData, 0));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final int getAlpha(final Object inData) {
+        return getAlpha(getSample(inData, 1));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final SampleModel createCompatibleSampleModel(final int w, final int h) {
+        return new PixelInterleavedSampleModel(transferType, w, h, 2, w * 2, new int[] {0, 1});
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final boolean isCompatibleSampleModel(final SampleModel sm) {
+        return sm instanceof PixelInterleavedSampleModel && sm.getNumBands() == 2;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final WritableRaster createCompatibleWritableRaster(final int w, final int h) {
+        return Raster.createWritableRaster(createCompatibleSampleModel(w, h), new Point(0, 0));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final boolean isCompatibleRaster(final Raster raster) {
+        int size = raster.getSampleModel().getSampleSize(0);
+        return ((raster.getTransferType() == transferType) &&
+                (raster.getNumBands() == 2) && ((1 << size) >= icm.getMapSize()));
+    }
+
+    public String toString() {
+        return "DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel: #pixelBits = " + pixel_bits
+                + " numComponents = " + getNumComponents()
+                + " color space = " + getColorSpace()
+                + " transparency = " + getTransparency()
+                + " has alpha = " + hasAlpha()
+                + " isAlphaPre = " + isAlphaPremultiplied();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-core/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/util/ImageTypeSpecifiers.java b/imageio/imageio-core/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/util/ImageTypeSpecifiers.java
index 05cf4468..4c1d9308 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-core/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/util/ImageTypeSpecifiers.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-core/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/util/ImageTypeSpecifiers.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 
 package com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.util;
 
+import com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.color.DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel;
 import com.twelvemonkeys.lang.Validate;
 
 import javax.imageio.ImageTypeSpecifier;
@@ -167,4 +168,9 @@ public final class ImageTypeSpecifiers {
     public static ImageTypeSpecifier createFromIndexColorModel(final IndexColorModel pColorModel) {
         return new IndexedImageTypeSpecifier(pColorModel);
     }
+
+    public static ImageTypeSpecifier createDiscreteAlphaIndexedFromIndexColorModel(final IndexColorModel pColorModel) {
+        ColorModel colorModel = new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(pColorModel);
+        return new ImageTypeSpecifier(colorModel, colorModel.createCompatibleSampleModel(1, 1));
+    }
 }
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-core/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/color/DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModelTest.java b/imageio/imageio-core/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/color/DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModelTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..72d42186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/imageio/imageio-core/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/color/DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModelTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+package com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.color;
+
+import org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.awt.image.*;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+public class DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModelTest {
+
+    @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
+    public void testCreateNull() {
+        new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(null);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCreateByte() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 8);
+        IndexColorModel colorModel = new IndexColorModel(8, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE);
+
+        new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(colorModel);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCreateUShort() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 16);
+        IndexColorModel colorModel = new IndexColorModel(16, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT);
+
+        new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(colorModel);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetRed() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 8);
+        colors[0] = 0x336699;
+        IndexColorModel icm = new IndexColorModel(8, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE);
+
+        DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel colorModel = new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(icm);
+
+        assertEquals(0x33, colorModel.getRed(0));
+        assertEquals(0x33, colorModel.getRed(new byte[] {0x00, 0x45}));
+
+        for (int i = 1; i < colors.length; i++) {
+            assertEquals(i, colorModel.getRed(i));
+            assertEquals(i, colorModel.getRed(new byte[] {(byte) i, (byte) 0xff}));
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetGreen() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 8);
+        colors[0] = 0x336699;
+        IndexColorModel icm = new IndexColorModel(8, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE);
+
+        DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel colorModel = new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(icm);
+
+        assertEquals(0x66, colorModel.getGreen(0));
+        assertEquals(0x66, colorModel.getGreen(new byte[] {0x00, 0x45}));
+
+        for (int i = 1; i < colors.length; i++) {
+            assertEquals(i, colorModel.getGreen(i));
+            assertEquals(i, colorModel.getGreen(new byte[] {(byte) i, (byte) 0xff}));
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetBlue() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 8);
+        colors[0] = 0x336699;
+        IndexColorModel icm = new IndexColorModel(8, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE);
+
+        DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel colorModel = new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(icm);
+
+        assertEquals(0x99, colorModel.getBlue(0));
+        assertEquals(0x99, colorModel.getBlue(new byte[] {0x00, 0x45}));
+
+        for (int i = 1; i < colors.length; i++) {
+            assertEquals(i, colorModel.getBlue(i));
+            assertEquals(i, colorModel.getBlue(new byte[] {(byte) i, (byte) 0xff}));
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetAlpha() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 8);
+        IndexColorModel icm = new IndexColorModel(8, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE);
+
+        DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel colorModel = new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(icm);
+
+        assertEquals(0x45, colorModel.getAlpha(0x45));
+        assertEquals(0x45, colorModel.getAlpha(new byte[] {0x01, 0x45}));
+
+        for (int i = 1; i < colors.length; i++) {
+            assertEquals(i, colorModel.getAlpha(i));
+            assertEquals(i, colorModel.getAlpha(new byte[]{(byte) 0xff, (byte) i}));
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetAlphaUShort() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 16);
+        colors[1] = 0x336699;
+        IndexColorModel icm = new IndexColorModel(16, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT);
+
+        DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel colorModel = new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(icm);
+
+        assertEquals(0x45, colorModel.getAlpha(0x4500));
+        assertEquals(0x45, colorModel.getAlpha(0x457F));
+
+        assertEquals(0x46, colorModel.getAlpha(0x45C6)); // Hmm.. This seems rather odd.. I would assume the limit should be 0x4580
+        assertEquals(0x46, colorModel.getAlpha(0x45FF));
+
+        assertEquals(0x45, colorModel.getAlpha(new short[] {0x01, 0x4500}));
+        assertEquals(0x45, colorModel.getAlpha(new short[] {0x02, 0x457F}));
+
+        assertEquals(0x46, colorModel.getAlpha(new short[] {0x03, 0x45C6}));
+        assertEquals(0x46, colorModel.getAlpha(new short[] {0x04, 0x45FF}));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCreateCompatibleSampleModel() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 8);
+        IndexColorModel icm = new IndexColorModel(8, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE);
+
+        ColorModel colorModel = new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(icm);
+        SampleModel sampleModel = colorModel.createCompatibleSampleModel(3, 2);
+
+        assertNotNull(sampleModel);
+
+        assertEquals(3, sampleModel.getWidth());
+        assertEquals(2, sampleModel.getHeight());
+
+        assertTrue(colorModel.isCompatibleSampleModel(sampleModel));
+        assertThat(sampleModel, CoreMatchers.is(PixelInterleavedSampleModel.class));
+        assertThat(sampleModel.getDataType(), CoreMatchers.equalTo(DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCreateCompatibleSampleModelUShort() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 8);
+        IndexColorModel icm = new IndexColorModel(8, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT);
+
+        ColorModel colorModel = new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(icm);
+        SampleModel sampleModel = colorModel.createCompatibleSampleModel(3, 2);
+
+        assertNotNull(sampleModel);
+
+        assertEquals(3, sampleModel.getWidth());
+        assertEquals(2, sampleModel.getHeight());
+
+        assertTrue(colorModel.isCompatibleSampleModel(sampleModel));
+        assertThat(sampleModel, CoreMatchers.is(PixelInterleavedSampleModel.class));
+        assertThat(sampleModel.getDataType(), CoreMatchers.equalTo(DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCreateCompatibleRaster() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 8);
+        IndexColorModel icm = new IndexColorModel(8, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE);
+
+        ColorModel colorModel = new DiscreteAlphaIndexColorModel(icm);
+        WritableRaster raster = colorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(3, 2);
+
+        assertNotNull(raster);
+
+        assertEquals(3, raster.getWidth());
+        assertEquals(2, raster.getHeight());
+
+        assertTrue(colorModel.isCompatibleRaster(raster));
+        assertThat(raster, CoreMatchers.is(WritableRaster.class)); // Specific subclasses are in sun.awt package
+        assertThat(raster.getTransferType(), CoreMatchers.equalTo(DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE));
+    }
+
+    private static int[] createIntLut(final int count) {
+        int[] lut = new int[count];
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+            lut[i] = 0xff000000 | i << 16 | i << 8 | i;
+        }
+
+        return lut;
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-core/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/util/ImageTypeSpecifiersTest.java b/imageio/imageio-core/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/util/ImageTypeSpecifiersTest.java
index 9a286bbf..d22e79ca 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-core/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/util/ImageTypeSpecifiersTest.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-core/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/util/ImageTypeSpecifiersTest.java
@@ -609,7 +609,26 @@ public class ImageTypeSpecifiersTest {
                 new IndexedImageTypeSpecifier(colorModel),
                 ImageTypeSpecifiers.createFromIndexColorModel(colorModel)
         );
+    }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testCreateDiscreteAlphaIndexedFromIndexColorModel8() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 8);
+        IndexColorModel colorModel = new IndexColorModel(8, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE);
+        assertEquals(
+                new ImageTypeSpecifier(colorModel, colorModel.createCompatibleSampleModel(1, 1)),
+                ImageTypeSpecifiers.createFromIndexColorModel(colorModel)
+        );
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCreateDiscreteAlphaIndexedFromIndexColorModel16() {
+        int[] colors = createIntLut(1 << 16);
+        IndexColorModel colorModel = new IndexColorModel(16, colors.length, colors, 0, false, -1, DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT);
+        assertEquals(
+                new ImageTypeSpecifier(colorModel, colorModel.createCompatibleSampleModel(1, 1)),
+                ImageTypeSpecifiers.createFromIndexColorModel(colorModel)
+        );
     }
 
     private static byte[] createByteLut(final int count) {
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 5961f6e5..068fd319 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
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ import com.twelvemonkeys.io.FastByteArrayOutputStream;
 import com.twelvemonkeys.io.LittleEndianDataInputStream;
 import com.twelvemonkeys.io.enc.DecoderStream;
 import com.twelvemonkeys.io.enc.PackBitsDecoder;
-import com.twelvemonkeys.xml.XMLSerializer;
 import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
 
 import javax.imageio.*;
@@ -459,7 +458,7 @@ public class TIFFImageReader extends ImageReaderBase {
                 }
             case TIFFBaseline.PHOTOMETRIC_PALETTE:
                 // Palette
-                if (samplesPerPixel != 1) {
+                if (samplesPerPixel != 1 && !(samplesPerPixel == 2 && extraSamples != null && extraSamples.length == 1)) {
                     throw new IIOException("Bad SamplesPerPixel value for Palette TIFF (expected 1): " + samplesPerPixel);
                 }
                 else if (bitsPerSample <= 0 || bitsPerSample > 16) {
@@ -474,6 +473,12 @@ public class TIFFImageReader extends ImageReaderBase {
 
                 IndexColorModel icm = createIndexColorModel(bitsPerSample, dataType, (int[]) colorMap.getValue());
 
+                if (extraSamples != null && extraSamples.length > 0
+                        && (extraSamples[0] == TIFFBaseline.EXTRASAMPLE_ASSOCIATED_ALPHA
+                        || extraSamples[0] == TIFFBaseline.EXTRASAMPLE_UNASSOCIATED_ALPHA)) {
+                    return ImageTypeSpecifiers.createDiscreteAlphaIndexedFromIndexColorModel(icm);
+                }
+
                 return ImageTypeSpecifiers.createFromIndexColorModel(icm);
 
             case TIFFExtension.PHOTOMETRIC_SEPARATED:
@@ -808,8 +813,11 @@ public class TIFFImageReader extends ImageReaderBase {
 
         int tilesAcross = (width + stripTileWidth - 1) / stripTileWidth;
         int tilesDown = (height + stripTileHeight - 1) / stripTileHeight;
+
+        // TODO: Get number of extra samples not part of the rawType spec...
         // TODO: If extrasamples, we might need to create a raster with more samples...
         WritableRaster rowRaster = rawType.createBufferedImage(stripTileWidth, 1).getRaster();
+//        WritableRaster rowRaster = Raster.createInterleavedRaster(DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE, stripTileWidth, 1, 2, null).createWritableChild(0, 0, stripTileWidth, 1, 0, 0, new int[]{0});
         Rectangle clip = new Rectangle(srcRegion);
         int row = 0;
         Boolean needsCSConversion = null;
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 08bbf63d..095c0ddb 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
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ public class TIFFImageReaderTest extends ImageReaderAbstractTest<TIFFImageReader
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/lzw-colormap-iiobe.tif"), new Dimension(2550, 3300)), // RGBA, LZW compression, will throw IOOBE if small buffer
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/scan-mono-iccgray.tif"), new Dimension(2408, 3436)), // B/W, PackBits w/gray ICC profile
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/planar-striped-lzw.tif"), new Dimension(229, 229)), // RGB 8 bit/sample, planar, LZW compression
+                new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/colormap-with-extrasamples.tif"), new Dimension(10, 10)), // Palette, 8 bit/sample, 2 samples/pixel, extra samples, LZW
                 // 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/colormap-with-extrasamples.tif b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/colormap-with-extrasamples.tif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a8c73f8a
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