Convert GIF loops to PNG: lossless, transparency kept
Processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Updated on 24 Oct 2026.Someone sends you a GIF, usually a short loop saved from a chat or a web page, and the program in front of you refuses to open it. PNG is the way round that: a lossless copy that no further saving will degrade. PNG holds one frame, so only the first frame is kept. Once this page has loaded it works offline, so a slow connection costs you nothing.
Drop the GIF on the box; PNG is already set, and the page counts the frames if the GIF moves.
For an animated GIF, pick First frame only for one still, or the All frames choice (it shows the count) for one PNG per frame.
Reading every frame needs Chrome or Edge; in other browsers only the first frame can be read.
Press Convert to PNG, then Download; several frames arrive as one zip.
Convert Image reads ten formats and writes seven. It opens JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, BMP, TIFF, ICO, SVG and HEIC, and saves as JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, TIFF or ICO. Drop up to twenty files in and each row shows the new size beside the old one as it finishes.
What a conversion costs is stated before it runs, not after the download. JPEG has no transparency, so transparent areas are filled with a colour you pick, white by default. BMP is the same. A multi-page TIFF gives you one file per page by default; an animated GIF or WebP keeps its first frame by default, with every frame available on browsers that can read them. An ICO is written as a genuine icon file holding 16, 32, 48, 64, 128 and 256 pixel versions, each stored as a PNG.
Two jobs are refused on purpose. GIF is not written, because a good GIF needs a hand-chosen 256-colour palette and a bad one looks worse than the original. Camera RAW and Photoshop PSD files are not opened, because both need decoders far too large for a browser; export a JPEG or TIFF from your camera software, or a PNG from Photoshop, and bring that here. Nothing becomes an SVG: tracing pixels into shapes is a different job with different results.
The rest of the article, and all 8 questions about Convert Image, are on the Convert Image page.
Reading works for JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, BMP, TIFF, ICO, SVG and HEIC; writing works for JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, TIFF and ICO. That is every pair those two lists allow, about sixty of them, and each pair has its own page with the target format already chosen for you.
Frames are counted the moment the file is dropped, and the first one is kept by default, because a still is what people usually want. Chrome and Edge can read every frame, and there the choice 'All 12 frames' gives you one file per frame. Other browsers can only read the first, and the page says so rather than pretending.
Not here, and the page says so up front. Tracing pixels into shapes is a different job, done by Image to SVG on this site, and PSD files are now opened by PSD to PNG, which saves the picture and each layer. Camera RAW differs by manufacturer and needs a decoder too large for a browser; export a JPEG or TIFF first.
Yes. Scripts, event handlers, embedded HTML, external references and entity declarations are stripped out first, and the drawing is then rendered inside an isolated image, where browsers do not run scripts and the file cannot reach the network. It is never inserted into this page. You choose the pixel size it is drawn at.
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