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TIFF to GIF converter

Convert TIFF to GIF in your browser. No upload and no account: the file never leaves your device, so the only size limit is your device’s memory.

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How to make the SVG

Tracing suits logos, icons and flat artwork and scales cleanly. Photos are better kept as pixels inside the SVG.

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50%
Dither Scatters black dots to suggest gray, instead of a hard cut-off.
Advanced 5
Keep the animation For animated GIF, WebP and APNG sources. Turn off to save just the first frame.
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For an exact width and height, use the Resize Image tool instead.

Bytes of your files sent anywhere: 0 B

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Read more about the TIFF format and the GIF format, or see every image tool and all image conversions.

Should you convert TIFF to GIF?

A safe conversion when GIF is what you need: both TIFF and GIF keep every pixel, so the picture itself doesn’t change.

GIF is also the more widely supported of the two: it opens everywhere, while TIFF is has patchy support.

TIFF is a high-fidelity format used by scanners, printers and archives; GIF is a 256-color image format best known for short looping animations. Use GIF for a few seconds of silent animation that has to play inline everywhere, including in email clients that block video.

TIFF and GIF compared
Property TIFF GIF
Compression Lossless Lossless
Transparency Yes On/off only
Animation No Yes
Support Has patchy support Opens everywhere
Best for Scans, print production and long-term archiving Short, silent loops and reaction images
Introduced 1986 1987

How to convert TIFF to GIF

  1. 01

    Add your TIFF

    Drop your TIFF image onto the box, or click to choose it. It is read from your disk and stays there.

  2. 02

    Check the settings

    The output is already set to GIF. Change the quality if you want to; the defaults suit most files.

  3. 03

    Save the GIF

    Press convert and save the GIF. Several files come back together as a ZIP.

What changes when TIFF becomes GIF

Nothing is discarded

TIFF and GIF both keep every pixel, so the picture survives the move intact. You can convert back and forth as often as you like without it degrading.

Transparency becomes on or off

GIF pixels are either fully transparent or fully solid. Soft edges and shadows from the TIFF are rounded one way or the other, which can leave a thin fringe around cut-out shapes.

Expect a much smaller file

TIFF: A scanned A4 page can be 20–50 MB. GIF: A five-second animation can easily pass 10 MB. Shrinking the file is often the main reason to make this conversion.

This page is put together from our notes on each format, choosing only what is true of TIFF and GIF, so every pairing states the same facts the same way. How these pages are made.

Why it doesn’t upload

Changing a picture’s format is work your browser already knows how to do. Sending your photos to a server first only adds waiting and risk, so nothing is sent.

How to check for yourself

Worth knowing

  • About the TIFF. Multi-page TIFFs from scanners look like one picture in some viewers, so pages go unnoticed when converting.
  • About the GIF. A few seconds of video as GIF is often ten times the size of the same clip as MP4, because GIF compresses each frame as a separate picture.
  • DDS, PSD, EXR, XWD and JPEG 2000 are read by the FFmpeg engine, a one-time 31 MB download.

Questions

Will converting TIFF to GIF lose quality?

No. TIFF and GIF are both lossless, so every pixel is kept.

Will the GIF be smaller than the TIFF?

Expect a much smaller file. TIFF: A scanned A4 page can be 20–50 MB. GIF: A five-second animation can easily pass 10 MB. Shrinking the file is often the main reason to make this conversion.

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