GIF to PNG

GIF is limited to 256 colours and shows visible banding on photos. PNG stores full colour losslessly and supports soft transparency instead of GIF's hard 1-bit transparency - the better choice for logos, graphics and screenshots.

GIF stores its colours in a palette of at most 256 entries and compresses them losslessly with the LZW method - so within that palette nothing is lost; the limit already arises when the GIF is created. A PNG, by contrast, can store full colour depth, so a graphic later extended or recoloured no longer hits the 256-colour ceiling. PNG's soft alpha channel also replaces GIF's hard one-bit transparency, where a pixel can only be fully visible or fully invisible - soft edges on logos look cleaner as a result.

The GIF is decoded locally and exported as PNG. For an animated GIF only the first frame is taken, honestly (PNG is a single image). Nothing is uploaded.

This step is typical when you want to reuse an old symbol, a web element or a scanned line drawing from a GIF in a current editor. The PNG forms a solid basis for editing because it is not quantised again and not compressed a second time. If an animation is present, the tool treats it understandably as a still of the opening frame.

Specifications

In 3 steps

1. Drop or tap your GIF file.
2. The tool exports lossless PNG (first frame if animated).
3. Download the PNG - with no upload.

Limitations: Animated GIFs are converted as a still of the FIRST frame - PNG cannot store animation. Transparent GIF areas stay transparent in the PNG.

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