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TIFF to WebP Converter — Free, Online, No Upload

Publish your print-ready TIFFs on the web without resizing by hand — WebP compresses them to web-safe sizes automatically.

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Need the reverse?WEBP → TIFF

How to convert TIFF to WEBP online

  1. 1

    Drop your TIFF file

    Drag your Tagged Image File Format file onto the box above, or click it to pick a file.

  2. 2

    Wait a few seconds

    Conversion starts on its own and runs on your device, not on a server.

  3. 3

    Download your WEBP

    Click Download to save the Web Picture Format file.

TIFF vs WEBP: format overview

TIFF

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
WEBP

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?
WebP outputs 8-bit colour. If your TIFF has 16-bit depth, the conversion tone-maps it to 8-bit, which is sufficient for all web display purposes.
Will transparency in my TIFF be preserved in WebP?
Yes — if your TIFF has an alpha channel, WebP will preserve the transparency in the output file.

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