Convert GIF to TIFF
Free online converter for GIF files. High-fidelity format used in print and archival work. Nothing to install, no watermark, and every file is deleted automatically.
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About GIF and TIFF
GIF .gif
A 1987 format that survives for one reason: it animates, and it plays everywhere without a video player. Its palette is capped at 256 colours per frame.
Good for
- Animation that works in any browser and any chat app
- Lossless within its 256-colour palette
- Universally supported after nearly four decades
Trade-offs
- 256 colours means visible banding on photographs
- Transparency is on-or-off per pixel, so edges look jagged
- Far larger than a real video file for the same clip
image/gif
TIFF .tiff
A flexible container used wherever image fidelity matters more than file size — scanning, publishing and archives. A single TIFF can hold multiple pages.
Good for
- Lossless storage suitable for archival masters
- Multi-page, which suits scanned documents
- Standard in print, publishing and document capture
Trade-offs
- Very large files
- Poor support in browsers — effectively unusable on the web
- So flexible that not every reader supports every variant
image/tiff
GIF and TIFF side by side
| GIF | TIFF | |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossless, 256-colour palette | Lossless (usually) |
| Transparency | Yes — 1-bit, no partial | Yes |
| Animation | Yes | No — but multi-page |
| Typically used for | Short loops, reaction clips, simple animations | Scanning, print production, archival masters |
What changes when you convert GIF to TIFF
Only the first frame survives
A GIF is usually an animation, and TIFF holds a single still image — so the result is the first frame and the rest is discarded. To keep the motion, convert to a video format instead, or to a still format that animates.
The palette does not grow
A GIF holds at most 256 colours per frame, and TIFF can hold millions — but the colours your GIF discarded when it was made do not come back. Any banding you can see in the GIF will still be there afterwards, stored in a format capable of much more.
How the TIFF is written
Our default is quality 90 with LZW compression, which every print and scanning tool reads. The quality control on the converter moves this if you need to — the default aims to be indistinguishable from the source at a sensible file size, rather than to win a compression benchmark.
Nothing is lost in this step
Both GIF and TIFF store every pixel exactly, so this conversion changes the container rather than the content. What changes is file size and what will open it — convert freely, and as often as you like, without degrading anything.
Other GIF conversions
Other ways to get TIFF
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