TIFF to GIF Converter — Free, Online, No Upload

TIFF is a professional format built for maximum quality: full color depth, lossless encoding, precise detail. GIF is the opposite: 256 colors, LZW compression, built for simple web graphics in the late 1980s. Converting TIFF to GIF is a significant quality downgrade, and should only be done when the destination platform specifically requires GIF.

The 256-color limit is the critical constraint. A full-color TIFF photograph converted to GIF will show obvious color banding — smooth sky gradients become stepped blocks, skin tones go muddy, and any subtle shading is lost. Simple graphics with flat colors — logos, diagrams, charts — convert much better, as they may already use fewer than 256 colors. If that's the type of TIFF you're converting, the GIF output may look nearly identical to the source.

Legacy email clients, some digital advertising platforms, older CMSes, and certain embedded display systems accept GIF but not TIFF or modern formats. Those are the scenarios where this conversion is worth the quality trade-off. File sizes are generally much smaller than the source TIFF — GIF's LZW compression is efficient for simple graphics, and the color reduction itself reduces the data that needs to be stored. Expect the GIF to be 90–99% smaller than the TIFF in most cases.

Typical sizes: TIFF 20–70 MB (12MP photo); GIF 5–50 MB (animated clip (3s)).

Both formats keep every pixel, so the GIF looks the same as the TIFF.