Convert GIF to JPG
Convert GIF images to JPG free, in your browser. No upload, no account, no watermark.
Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.Change the format. Drop an image, a PDF or a Word document.
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Your files are processed by your own browser and never sent to a server. Open your browser's network tab and convert one, there is no upload to see.
How to convert GIF to JPG
- Drop your GIF files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Pick a quality. Around 90% is indistinguishable from the original for most images.
- Your browser does the work on your own machine.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
What changes, and what does not
Transparency is lost
GIF can hold see-through pixels and JPG cannot. Anything transparent is filled with the colour you pick in the panel, white unless you change it. If you need the transparency, PNG, WebP and AVIF all keep it.
Animation is lost
A GIF can hold many frames and a JPG holds one, so you get the first frame as a still image. A browser canvas cannot write animation back out, and a converter that claims to is doing it on a server with your file.
Detail is thrown away for the first time
GIF keeps every pixel exactly. JPG does not, and that is the point of it: the file gets far smaller because detail your eye is worst at noticing is discarded. Keep the original if you may need to edit it again.
Colour
GIF: 256 per frame, which is why photographs in a gif look banded. JPG: 16.7 million, with no transparency at all.
GIF and JPG side by side
| GIF | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 1987, from CompuServe | 1992, from the Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Throws detail away | No, every pixel is kept | Yes |
| Transparency | Yes | No |
| Animation | Yes | No |
| Where it opens | Universal, and has been for longer than most of the web | Everywhere, on everything, including hardware old enough to vote |
| Best at | Short looping animations, and almost nothing else any more | Photographs, and anything going somewhere you cannot predict |
How much smaller will the file be?
Expect a large drop. A photograph saved as GIF carries every pixel exactly, and JPG does not need to, so falls of eighty or ninety per cent are ordinary. A screenshot or a logo will fall much less, because GIF was already efficient at flat colour and hard edges, and may even grow.
Can I convert it back afterwards?
Not to the same file, no. Going to JPG discards detail permanently, and converting the result back to GIF gives you a GIF of the damaged picture rather than the original. Keep the original if there is any chance you will need to edit it again.
About GIF
Ancient, limited to 256 colours, still everywhere.
Worth knowing: Only the first frame is converted, the result is a still image, not an animation.
About JPG
The safest choice: every device, upload form and printer accepts it.
Will the quality change?
JPG is lossy, so the image is decoded and re-encoded and a little detail is dropped. At high quality this is invisible. Convert once from your original rather than repeatedly, because each pass compounds.
What happens to transparency?
JPG cannot store it. Any transparent area is filled with the colour you choose in the panel, which defaults to white. If you need the transparency kept, convert to PNG, WebP or AVIF instead.
Other conversions
GIF also converts to PNG, WebP, AVIF, PDF and Word.
JPG also comes from HEIC, PNG, WebP, AVIF and BMP.