diff --git a/src/decoder/image.rs b/src/decoder/image.rs
index 6f97b01..c037e31 100644
--- a/src/decoder/image.rs
+++ b/src/decoder/image.rs
@@ -305,6 +305,15 @@ impl Image {
                     ),
                 )),
             },
+            PhotometricInterpretation::YCbCr => match self.bits_per_sample[..] {
+                [y, cb, cr] if [y, y] == [cb, cr] => Ok(ColorType::YCbCr(y)),
+                _ => Err(TiffError::UnsupportedError(
+                    TiffUnsupportedError::InterpretationWithBits(
+                        self.photometric_interpretation,
+                        self.bits_per_sample.clone(),
+                    ),
+                )),
+            },
             PhotometricInterpretation::BlackIsZero | PhotometricInterpretation::WhiteIsZero
                 if self.bits_per_sample.len() == 1 =>
             {
@@ -464,6 +473,7 @@ impl Image {
             (ColorType::RGB(n), _)
             | (ColorType::RGBA(n), _)
             | (ColorType::CMYK(n), _)
+            | (ColorType::YCbCr(n), _)
             | (ColorType::Gray(n), _)
                 if usize::from(n) == buffer.byte_len() * 8 => {}
             (ColorType::Gray(n), DecodingBuffer::U8(_)) if n < 8 => match self.predictor {
diff --git a/src/encoder/colortype.rs b/src/encoder/colortype.rs
index f6c775a..1946daf 100644
--- a/src/encoder/colortype.rs
+++ b/src/encoder/colortype.rs
@@ -235,3 +235,11 @@ impl ColorType for CMYK64Float {
     const BITS_PER_SAMPLE: &'static [u16] = &[64, 64, 64, 64];
     const SAMPLE_FORMAT: &'static [SampleFormat] = &[SampleFormat::IEEEFP; 4];
 }
+
+pub struct YCbCr8;
+impl ColorType for YCbCr8 {
+    type Inner = u8;
+    const TIFF_VALUE: PhotometricInterpretation = PhotometricInterpretation::YCbCr;
+    const BITS_PER_SAMPLE: &'static [u16] = &[8, 8, 8];
+    const SAMPLE_FORMAT: &'static [SampleFormat] = &[SampleFormat::Uint; 3];
+}
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index b763fc0..8f23f35 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -37,4 +37,7 @@ pub enum ColorType {
 
     /// Pixel is CMYK
     CMYK(u8),
+
+    /// Pixel is YCbCr
+    YCbCr(u8),
 }
diff --git a/tests/encode_images.rs b/tests/encode_images.rs
index 0e5360e..57c569f 100644
--- a/tests/encode_images.rs
+++ b/tests/encode_images.rs
@@ -264,6 +264,11 @@ fn test_gray_f64_roundtrip() {
     test_f64_roundtrip::<colortype::Gray64Float>("gradient-1c-64b-float.tiff", ColorType::Gray(64));
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn test_ycbcr_u8_roundtrip() {
+    test_u8_roundtrip::<colortype::YCbCr8>("tiled-jpeg-ycbcr.tif", ColorType::YCbCr(8));
+}
+
 trait AssertDecode {
     fn assert_tag_u32(&mut self, tag: u16) -> u32;
     fn assert_tag_u32_vec(&mut self, tag: u16) -> Vec<u32>;
diff --git a/tests/images/tiled-jpeg-ycbcr.tif b/tests/images/tiled-jpeg-ycbcr.tif
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a8303e6
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