GIF to TIFF converter

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

I have Choose files or drop them here, GIF files No size cap, no daily limit and no watermark.

I want TIFF

Settings appear once you add an image.

Quality 90%

Background for transparent areas

Icon sizes

How to make the SVG

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

Colors to trace 16

Black below 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.

Rotate

Mirror horizontally

Mirror vertically

Resize: longest side

For an exact width and height, use the Resize Image tool instead.

Done on your device No upload, no queue, no sign-up.

Bytes sent anywhere: 0 B Bytes of your files sent anywhere: 0 B · nothing leaves this tab

Works offline after you’ve used it once.

Need it the other way round? Convert TIFF to GIF

Other ways to convert GIF

Convert other formats to TIFF

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

Should you convert GIF to TIFF?

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

Bear in mind TIFF is has patchy support: it works in photo editors, macOS Preview and Windows Photos, but not Chrome, Firefox or most upload forms.

GIF is a 256-color image format best known for short looping animations; TIFF is a high-fidelity format used by scanners, printers and archives. Use TIFF when a printer, publisher or archive asks for it, or for master copies of scans.

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

How to convert GIF to TIFF

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Add your GIF

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

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

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

What changes when GIF becomes TIFF

Nothing is discarded

GIF and TIFF 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 is kept

GIF and TIFF both support transparency, so transparent backgrounds and soft edges come through unchanged.

Animations become a still

TIFF can’t move, so an animated GIF is saved as its first frame. Choose GIF or APNG instead to keep the animation.

Expect a larger file

TIFF generally takes more room than GIF. If the file has to fit an upload limit, check the size once it’s converted. GIF: A five-second animation can easily pass 10 MB. TIFF: A scanned A4 page can be 20–50 MB.

This page is put together from our notes on each format, choosing only what is true of GIF and TIFF, 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 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.
About the TIFF. Multi-page TIFFs from scanners look like one picture in some viewers, so pages go unnoticed when converting.
DDS, PSD, EXR, XWD and JPEG 2000 are read by the FFmpeg engine, a one-time 31 MB download.

Questions

Will converting GIF to TIFF lose quality?

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

Will the TIFF be smaller than the GIF?

Expect a larger file. TIFF generally takes more room than GIF. If the file has to fit an upload limit, check the size once it’s converted. GIF: A five-second animation can easily pass 10 MB. TIFF: A scanned A4 page can be 20–50 MB.

Next steps

Often used before or after GIF to TIFF converter. These run on your device too.