How to convert TIFF to WEBP online
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Drop your TIFF file
Drag your Tagged Image File Format file onto the box above, or click it to pick a file.
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Wait a few seconds
Conversion starts on its own and runs on your device, not on a server.
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Download your WEBP
Click Download to save the Web Picture Format file.
TIFF vs WEBP: format overview
Tagged Image File Format
Aldus Corporation · 1986
- Compression
- lossless
- Color depth
- 32-bit
- Transparency
- Yes
- ✓ Preserves maximum quality for archiving
- ✓ Supports multiple layers and pages
- ✗ Extremely large file sizes
Web Picture Format
Google (On2 Technologies acquisition) · 2010
- Compression
- hybrid
- Color depth
- 8-bit
- Transparency
- Yes
- ✓ 30% smaller than JPEG, 26% smaller than PNG
- ✓ Supports both lossy and lossless
TIFF magic bytes: 49 49 2A 00 (little-endian) / 4D 4D 00 2A (big-endian)
WEBP magic bytes: 52 49 46 46 xx xx xx xx 57 45 42 50
Why convert TIFF to WEBP?
TIFF is the professional format of choice for print, scanning, and archival work — but its file sizes are impractical for web delivery, email, or sharing via messaging apps. A print-ready TIFF at 300 DPI can easily be 50–100 MB. WebP bridges professional quality and web practicality, achieving excellent results at file sizes 10–30× smaller than TIFF.
WebP is supported by all modern browsers and is accepted by most web platforms including WordPress (as of version 5.8), Shopify, Squarespace, and Wix. For photographers and designers who work in TIFF for their master files but need web-ready versions, converting to WebP gives them a format that's fast to load, maintains excellent quality, and is accepted everywhere modern images are displayed. Google PageSpeed Insights specifically recommends WebP as a next-generation image format.
Lossless WebP preserves the exact pixel data from the TIFF — the resulting file is lossless but substantially smaller than the TIFF, making it a good archive format for images that don't need to stay in TIFF. Lossy WebP at high quality settings (85–95%) is typically visually indistinguishable from the TIFF source while being 5–20× smaller. If the source TIFF has 16-bit color depth, note that WebP is an 8-bit format — the high bit depth information will be converted to 8-bit, which is fine for display but means you're no longer working with the full dynamic range of the master file.
Quality & file size: TIFF to WEBP
Typical sizes (12MP photo): TIFF 20–70 MB → WEBP 1–3 MB.
On the free tier, WEBP output has a repeating formatdrop.com watermark; Pro output doesn't.
WEBP output is encoded at quality 85 — a small file with no visible difference for most photos.
Transparency is kept.
Frequently asked questions
Does WebP support the full colour depth of a 16-bit TIFF?
Will transparency in my TIFF be preserved in WebP?
Your TIFF file never leaves this tab — FormatDrop has no endpoint that receives file data. How it works